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Inspiration for Your Blog (12 posts)

Topic tags: ideas, inspiration, source material

Don Purdum said
1 year, 4 months ago:
Where do you get inspiration each day for new blogs?
For me, it’s a combination of personal experiences and combinations. Sometimes, it’s an article I read somewhere or a review I want to write.
Where do you get your inspiration?
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Kristi Hines said
1 year, 4 months ago:
@donpurdum I get my ideas from…
- Things I struggle with or discover – If you find that something challenges you and you figure it out, or you are impressed by something you discover, chances are your audience will appreciate your sharing the experience or discovery.
- Q&A networks – Quora, LinkedIn Answers, and (sometimes) Yahoo Answers are a hotbed to find what people want to know more about.
- Social networks – I keep a stream of Twitter searches for keyword ? -http: that shows you who is asking a question about a particular topic.
- Blog commenting – If you do a lot of blog commenting, you’ll ultimately find some posts where your response to it can actually turn in to a post. Be sure when you do the post to give credit to the article that started the idea.
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Don Purdum said
1 year, 4 months ago:
@kristi-hines
Thanks Kristi! I’m involved with LinkedIn Answers and it never occurred to me to use it as a resource. Duh!
I also love the idea of using Twitter in that capacity.
Awesome post!
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Joan Muschamp (Fagnani) said
1 year, 4 months ago:
@donpurdum I am working on my blog (not yet published) and get a lot of inspiration from what I read,usually online
I agree with @kristi-hines that social networks provide a lot of fodder, as well as the struggles one has when you share
Many times a topic comes to mind when I have been a)well treated by a business or b) poorly treated by a business
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Don Purdum said
1 year, 4 months ago:
@joanmuschampfagnani
Isn’t that the truth Joan. Our experiences can shape our topics and content.
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Joan Muschamp (Fagnani) said
1 year, 4 months ago:
@donpurdum @kristi-hines I just saw this post via my Twitter feed: http://bit.ly/eW81q5
Pretty much on topic!
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Don Purdum said
1 year, 4 months ago:
@joanmuschampfagnani
Pretty cool. I will check it out this evening!
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Dexter Eugenio said
1 year, 4 months ago:
inspiration comes from within.
ideas come from whats around you.
i write my best in total silence, in an empty room with just my laptop.
but im always inspired to write, its a passion.
thinking about it a little more (geez can it get anyomre D&M) passion drives inspiration. 100%
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Kristi Hines said
1 year, 4 months ago:
@joanmuschampfagnani Great resource Joan – thanks for sharing!
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Sabrina Mantle said
1 year, 4 months ago:
Everything. Usually there are enough things going on around me to spark ideas, but every now and then I draw a blank and surf the net till something hits me. I find some really interesting things this way
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Marc D. Baldwin, PhD said
1 year, 4 months ago:
Read a lot. Talk to people. Ask questions.
Best tip: Pick an issue about which experts disagree. Think of the Hegelian dialectic: thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis. Make your angle/point/topic the synthesis (the new, not necessarily central or centrist or moderate position) of the arguing sides. Ideally a synthesis is a cobbling together and reformation in a new shape the theses and anti-theses of the arguing sides. I.E., make a fresh blend, a new recipe from the same old same old.
Easier said than done, but it’s an efficacious approach to take and it will make you an instant player and authority if you’re able to pull it off. There’s 1000′s of issues and problems (in almost every field and discipline) just waiting and begging for new intellects to curate them and mash them up into something new and potentially problem-solving.
Marc
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Matthew O’Neill said
1 year, 4 months ago:
For my personal Blog I have always used my own personal experiences as a base to begin my post. It usually can alway lead into a real topib but I found readers enjoy when they have a real life scenario to first understand what is going on. And it also leads people to read the real issue behind the article.
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