When is blogging a waste of time? Let's count the ways. Here are 10 particularly nasty examples of blogging time wasters.
Blogging is a waste of time:
1. When you publish a blog post that provides little or no value to your target audience.
2. When your blog has no clear target audience.
3. When you are only pretending to be "blogging" (you're reading, you're looking at email, you're surfing YouTube, etc.).
4. When you should be talking to individuals by phone or email or in person instead of producing blog content.
5. When your blog posts are not indexed in major Web search engines and blog search engines.
6. When you are mean.
7. When you plagiarize.
8. When you merely echo, rather than respond originally.
9. When you overedit before publishing.
10. When you blog before you think.
Do you ever waste time while blogging? Have you ever made any of the above mistakes? I know I have. Now is the time to repent. Let the intervention begin!
#3, #9, #4, #2 and #1 are my worst enemies. What about you?
Have I ever made any of the above mistakes? Oh yeah! In order...
9. When you overedit before publishing.
I'm definitely guilty of overthinking and/or overediting on some posts in an effort to condense or make more concise a lengthy or rambling post. Sometimes what should've been a 10-minute blog entry ends up consuming over an hour before I know it.
8. When you merely echo, rather than respond originally.
I worry about this sometimes and I'm reluctant to post an entry when it seems like I'm just mirroring someone else's thoughts. But sometimes a tidbit is worth passing on in spite of being more copycat than fresh - to your readers, it may be original.
2. When your blog has no clear target audience.
Given that 2Dolphins is very much a personal blog, the topics vary greatly, so I do wonder sometimes if there's too little focus. I feel like the Blogger labels have helped to at least corral some of our wandering notions into navigable catgories.
1. When you publish a blog post that provides little or no value to your target audience.
Sheesh, I wonder if there exists a blogger who doesn't have pangs of self-doubt that lead to overthinking or agonizing over posts because they don't seem meaty enough...
Posted by: Rob O. | May 18, 2007 2:06 AM | Permalink to Comment