9 Mar 2009
Twitter-Sourcing Blog Posts
One of the biggest challenges I have had getting started with blogging is coming up with topics that haven’t rehashed over and over again. I have tons of ideas that pop up in my head, and thanks to Google Tasks I have been able to keep up a decent number of posts in the hopper. Every now and then, I still struggle to come up with meaningful content to post out there for the world.
A solution I have been trying, and have had some success with, is see what my twitter network wants to hear about. Here are the tweets I got last week when I opened myself up to all my twitter friends:
@barrykirk - Barry Kirk
@nathanverrill - Nathan Verrill
Obviously, this post has been inspired by Barry’s tweet. It does raise the question though, does crowd-sourcing my blog posts out to twitter make me lazy?
Personally, I don’t think so. If there is one thing I am good at, it is having a conversation with someone no matter what the topic is. I don’t want my blog to be just another brain dumb of my views and ideas, I want it to be an on going conversation with my readers. By crowd-sourcing the topics on my blog, this just a way for me to starting a conversation with the community. I have devoted this blog to posts about Interaction Design, Web 2.0 Stuff, and Fatherhood (going to be a dad in about 4 months.) All of these topics have deep and extensive communities, with tons of content already in existence.
My method of interjecting myself into the overall conversations is to see what my peers want to hear about, or maybe what my response would be to something they have written. If successful, I see this as a great way to keep myself involved both in my blog and the community of Interaction Designers, Web Guru’s, and other dads out there.
