1. If you are a Firefox user, try ScribeFire. As you surf around checking links from Twitter, your RSS reader, and other sources, you can collect and blog about the things you find without logging into your blog. The editor sites right on the page you
are on and posts from there right to your blog when you’ve finished.
2. Evernote lets you clip whole pages or just some text and save it in your account with major categorization and tagging power to group stuff the way you want. Collect all the goodies you find and that are sent to you by friends and use them anytime to create a great post of resources.
3. Utility Poster and Video Utility Poster allow you to skim the web for written and video content by keyword, review it, and drag and drop the content you like into your editor. (I had to plug my software – it’s only natural!)
4. Make the offer to accept guest posts from other bloggers and writers. They won’t come to you until you’re huge. You have to make the offer on your site and in your social network every once in awhile to catch people when they feel they have the time to do it.
5. Hold a tips contest and allow your readers to send you entries for the “5 best ways to…” or whatever would be good readin’ for your visitors. Give away something really nice and perfect for your audience and you’ll have some free content for easy posting!
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Hey Jack,
Nice tips!
It’s really worth visiting here.
Hi Jack, thanks for the “tips”. It is interesting to know something new and I like it.
Good tips. Just got to consume lots of content, and you’ll have lots to say.
Hi Jack, great post. I’ve been a user of Evernote for some time now and can’t live without it. Before I’d just keep copy and paste the URL and excerpts of content into notepad and organize it the best way I could…with Everynote it’s just simple–no hassles.
I understand that some people use Tumblr as a swipe file as well.
Some great little tools to make blogging easier, thank you for the info.
I do similar strategy like number 4. I let people post articles in my articles directory. The only problem, we will get similar article with others.