Recent Blogging Advice (another metablogging post you've seen 100 times or more)
This morning I attended a Brighton & Hove Chamber of Commerce business breakfast at Carluccio's and listened to a talk by Kate Hammond (an international healthcare consultant) entitled 'Having it all'.
The talk itself consisted of little more than an entrepreneur introducing them self and telling their professional life story - all in all not very inspiring.
However Kate did impart one useful piece of advice in the form of this cheesy catchy little one-liner:
Write up not down
What she meant by this was; instead of taking notes then forgetting about them, turn these notes into something that can be published. While I'm sure she wasn't referring to blogs, her advice echoes what I've been hearing a lot recently.
So how does a designer go about becoming a better writer?
Here are some tips for becoming a more productive blogger:
In response to my explain that I am primarily a visual person:
Matt Weston who I also met this morning at a little meet-up he runs at the Mad Hatter (in Brighton) suggested blogging in pictures. I had explained that it can be hard for a primarily visual person to put things into words.
I have to say I agree with this relatively off-the-cuff piece of advice (having read Cathy Sierra's stuff on the Creating Passionate Users blog).
Another chap I recently met (at the Sussex Geek Dinner), Stuart Lamour (currently a Cogapp guy who also runs the 20 Jazz Funk Greats music blog), said
Keep a notebook by your side and, throughout the day, write down every little idea, no matter how small or silly. Then, at the the end of each day, summarize these notes into a blog post.
I have a lot of time for the school of thought that says it's better to do something (and iteratively improve on that thing) than to wait until the thing's perfect before publishing (which of course it never is so nothing gets published).
So thanks everyone for these tips, I'll try to implement them.