Comments on: Blogging and the Art Time Management

By: Francis Wade

Francis Wade — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:32:30 +0000

I think my productivity made its first real jump when I realized that I needed to follow some kind of system, but the biggest jump came when I discovered that I needed to design one for myself.

The challenge I found was that no-one was helping bloggers (or anyone else for that matter0 to do that. Now, there are many people joining this move to Time Management 2.0 (defining your own system rather than following someone else’s.)

But there are are still very few resources that I have found that offer this kind of help, which lead me to start coming up with some basic ways to help anyone do just that.

I’m not finished… it’s a work in progress, but I am still searching for others who are seeing the coming of 2.0 as something that’s just like Web 2.0.

By: muttley

muttley — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:32:22 +0000

Time management is essential in any endeavor. I would say that it takes proper allocation of time to succeed in any provided task. I have also read people talking about distractions. These are minor instances, which may or may not affect the things that someone does.

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By: Ian McKenzie

Ian McKenzie — Wed, 18 May 2005 21:37:54 +0000

At the moment, turning off the TV has freed up enough time to meet my less ambitious posting goal –7 to 10/day over four blogs. On those days where I seem to have an abundance of material, I’ll use Wordpress’s ability to post-to-the-future feature to cover days that will be busy with other activities. I’ll also save posts as drafts, needing only to click publish on those days where unforeseen commitments spring up and eat into my blogging time.

By: AnP

AnP — Wed, 18 May 2005 21:28:11 +0000

I am a full-time employee, a mom, write bi-monthly for dotMOMs and monthly for Suite101 and I blog for creative-weblogging, aboutweblogs and my own personal blog. Where do I find the time? When my baby is asleep, I get 1-2 hours to blog/research. On weekends, I get 2-4 hours for more blogging and researching. Time enough. I just make sure that I get the right blog feeds and not get distracted with something else.

By: Ryan Latham

Ryan Latham — Wed, 18 May 2005 17:32:40 +0000

Well looks like you got to thinking about distractions before my filtering out post. But I agree sometimes having a schedule doesn’t work when you’re dealt distraction after distraction…although I ignore most everything.

For example I am at work right now, but I do not let that get in the way of writing content for tomorrow. Just filter it out.

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By: John Evans

John Evans — Wed, 18 May 2005 09:50:58 +0000

I try to remain aware of the 80 / 20 principle (from the book of the same name). This states that 20% of your time / effort yields 80% of your results; and 80% of your time produces 20%. Sorting out which is which is a useful exercise.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 18 May 2005 08:12:19 +0000

My ’strategy’ as I seek to build up several blogs is (at present) to definitely post at least one article per day (whilst I’m doing a regular job, getting my head around this, and getting friends and particularly spouse ‘on side’ with this extra obsession with being at my laptop reading or typing).

For blogs which are not totally time or event dependent (ie they are not primarily news or review sites) my plan (though this hasn’t worked too well just yet) is to take extra time when I can to build up a buffer zone of articles which will auto-post. Of course this isn’t possible for sites which need to share timely info.

If I don’t spend at least an hour a day (on average) adding content to my blog, then I am disappointed. I too can become too easily distracted on doing ‘blog-like’ activities that aren’t actually building my blog. These peripheral activities may be useful but they aren’t core and so I don’t include them in my ‘hour’. I generally do my regular hour sometime between 10-11.30pm.

My mind is usually in blog mode, and I try to keep the tools of the trade (I wrote about this at my site) with me all the time – so in reality I am probably spending far longer on my blog activities than the time I am at my computer. Just as the developing photographer begins to look at everything as if through a camera lens, continually composing images even when away from the camera, I am starting to attribute “blog-potential” to the things that happen in and around my life.

My point is that there is a place for time management and discipline in blogging, but it goes far beyond the keyboard – it is an attitude, a mindset, a lifestyle; it is observant, persistent, consistent, passionate, and determined. Sit yourself at a keyboard for x hours per day, but fail to observe, learn, develop, for the other (24-x) hours, and your content will suffer.

By: ShaiCoggins.com

ShaiCoggins.com — Wed, 18 May 2005 03:01:27 +0000

Time Management and Multiple Blogging

Darren Rowse recently asked the question how individuals with multiple blogs manage their time over at Problogger.net (Blogging and the Art Time Management. A few months ago, I wrote a short article on Time Management Tips for Bloggers. However, I didn…