Seven Habits of a Highly Effective Blogger

Inspired by Yuga, here's my take on the seven habits of a highly effective blogger.

1. Be Proactive: Make working back-ups of your entries. You'll never know when your database will crash.

2. Begin With the End In Mind: Ask yourself why you're blogging and where you want you and your blog to be in the next 7 months.

3. Put First Things First: Do you read or do you write? Should you program first or design? Take photos, craft words, or record music/video? Blogcast, podcast, vodcast, vidcast, screencast, celcast, mobicast? Ask yourself which activities you have to complete before the others.

4. Think Win-Win: Blog so that it helps yourself and others. Generously link to other places online.

5. Seek First To Understand, Then To Be Understood: Don't believe every thing you read, or everything you think you read. It pays to take a second glance. It pays to wait a while, sometimes.

6. Synergize: Take all your skills, blend it with the talents of others, and create something new. Collaborate. Try a group blog sometime.

7. Sharpen the Saw: Take classes. Talk walks. Take anything away from the computer.

With thanks to Angel's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective/Defective People

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[ First posted on 01/03/2006 by Manuel Viloria ]