Wondering how others handle planning their editorial calendars. For one of the blogs I write for I have my January 2012 post ideas in place but nothing beyond January as of yet.

How many months out do you plan posts? What are the sources of ideas for your posts?

I plan three months at a time.  I do my monthly subject then I will do a paragraph on each one so that when it comes time to expand I know what I wanted to talk about. I have even gone as far as using my Catch.com (like Evernote) to clip things I see that I want to remember so that I can use that info when it comes time.

@rebecca  Great suggestion about doing clips with tools such as catch.com and evernote.

I’m a big fan of evernote and also use it as a place to collect links and other material I want to go back to read later on as part of the research process–but haven’t thought about it strategically as part of my editorial calendar moving out a few months!

@rebecca Oh, good. I’ll definitely check it out. Thanks for the suggestion.