scaffolding blogging/online networking
Steve Pavlina had a blog entry on Personal Productivity Scaffolds that caught my eye. I am going to try to apply this approach to blogging and other online networking efforts to make them more consistent, and make sure they get enough time without getting too much.I laid a foundation a while ago with a “daily” tag in del.icio.us for the sites I wanted to check daily. Now I will make myself a scaffold for daily startup that will include 43things, possibly writing a blog entry (though this kind of works into 43things), other blogs where I may want to comment instead of just read, LinkedIn and other social networking sites, and e-mails to keep in touch.
If I can get a good checklist/schedule going, I should be able to keep current with all of them, and not waste more time than I need to during the rest of the day going back and revisiting all the time.
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With regards to tags, I liked your earlier idea of tagging actions as actions: toDo, toBuy, toContact…
I was already labeling interesting articles as “toRead”, as in stuff I don’t have time to read now; so I started tagging blogs as “toReRead” since it should frequently be new.
I suppose you may still want to have a combo, toReRead+Daily… but I suppose I like the purist idea of keeping “daily” separate from the action of reading. In case I wish to categorize vitamins or newspapers next, or something equally anal.