Blogging Daily Starting Monday

by Kivi Leroux Miller on December 31, 2010

in Nonprofit Communications

I’ve decided to start blogging daily (or darn close) as of January 3, 2010. I’m giving it three months, and I’ll reevaluate then.

I’ve been thinking about it for a few months, and when I saw this video, I stopped thinking and decided to do it.

What This Means for You

For you, I hope this means even more opportunities to participate in your professional community through dialogue in the blog’s comments and other places the feed appears (e.g. Twitter, Facebook). I also hope it means you’ll learn more, be challenged more, and have more fun doing your job.

If you are subscribed to this blog via email, it means you’ll get a daily email from me, most often between Noon and 3:00 p.m. Eastern (9:00 a.m. – Noon Pacific). Of course, I don’t expect you to read every single one, but I hope you’ll find the content useful enough that the daily email is something you look forward to and that it doesn’t become overwhelming.

If the daily email is too much, unsubscribe using the links at the bottom of the email, and subscribe to my weekly e-newsletter instead. In addition to fresh content, I will also provide a weekly blog review in that e-newsletter, so you can go back and catch up on anything in the blog you missed the previous week.

If email isn’t your thing, follow me on Twitter and/or Facebook where the blog posts also appear usually within an hour of posting. I’m also on Alltop’s Nonprofit Page. (I highly recommend you create a your own page at Alltop with your favorite blogs. I use my Alltop page way more than Google Reader now.) Of course, you can always subscribe to the RSS feed directly, too.

What This Means for Me

When I ask myself, what is the one thing I wish I spent more time on professionally, I always come back to blogging.

I love writing. I love how blogging lets me advance my own thinking on topics, one post at a time. I love how it lets me sort through, analyze, and share what others are doing and saying about specific topics. I love giving nonprofit professionals who don’t have their own platforms, via guest posts, a place to share what they are doing and learning. I love hearing what you think about what I think, even when you think I’m completely wrong.

It all moves the conversation forward and ultimately adds to the growth and maturity of our profession, especially for small nonprofits, which is what Nonprofit Marketing Guide is all about.

  • http://www.LauriePringle.com/ Laurie Pringle

    Please don’t. Far too many people subscribe to this nonsense. Seth is a smart guy – but just because he says it, doesn’t make it so.

    I’ve stopped following an abundance of people because they seemed to feel the need to put quantity above quality.

    I’d much prefer you blog once a month (or less!) and offer high quality, useful, practical, and applicable content – then to yammer every day about… stuff.

    Nobody is so brilliant or helpful or important that they can offer exceptional content daily. Don’t become a McBlogger.

  • http://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com Kivi Leroux Miller

    I’ll skip a day rather than blather on about nothing. There is so much going on in our field that I really don’t think it will be that hard. It’s more about time management. And in my opinion blogging once a month is not blogging.

  • http://www.design2express.com/ Online Printing

    Nice Video i liked their view on blogging!

  • http://lowhangingfruit.us/ Maureen Carruthers

    Looking forward to hearing more from you. I’m also interested to see how it “lands” in the nonprofit community. I suppose on one hand it doesn’t matter, since it clarifies your own thinking–but I wonder how many of our peeps feel more like Laurie and less like Seth.

  • http://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com Kivi Leroux Miller

    I think it is ultimately about the value provided. I suspect some will love it and others will leave and that is the beauty of the Web . . . You can find what works for you.

  • http://www.pamelagrow.com Pamela Grow

    I tend to agree with Laurie – at least for myself. This will be an interesting experiment and we’ll enjoy watching. Whatever you put out will be worthwhile.

  • http://twitter.com/dudeimanaspie Matt Friedman

    2010 was the first full year for my personal blog, and it’s been an invaluable tool for building my personal brand, for a new creative outlet, and for a genuine feeling of community with my readers. I spend several hours a week on 1-2 posts a week. If I tried to do more than that, I know I would sacrifice quality.

    However, I think if a blogger feels they can further their goals through daily posting, and their personal community will support it, then it’s worth their while.

  • Peg Giffels

    I agree with Laurie about quality over quantity, AND I agree with Peters and Godin about the important role writing plays in organizing your thoughts. At NPower Seattle we seek to be a thought leader in nonprofit technology, and we’ve made a collective commitment to blog more about best practices and resources because otherwise it stays locked up in our heads or gets shared sporadically, with one client at a time.

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