Your Blog Approach

[Angela Moore]

What is your general approach to blogging?

Do you have a set schedule or is just when you feel like it?

What is your overall tone and theme to your blog?

What has surprised you about your blogging efforts so far?

[Stacey]

Completely random - which is why I like blogging so much! I write about whatever feels right at the moment. I love that I can share so many things with so many different groups of people in one place.

[Angela Moore]

That's great. I have tried that, but random tends to make me lazy, but a rigorous schedule is too difficult for me to feel creative. I know I need to find a happy medium somehow!

[Angela Moore]

I hear you about the no paper thing! However, I am one of those types that carries a notebook and pen with them everywhere they go. You never know when inspiration will strike!

[Jennifer Tankersley]

I love these questions! I started blogging for my business. My website is called ListPlanIt.com, which has over 300 lists and planning pages available. So the theme of my blog is. . . LISTS! Surprise, surprise. Where the website's lists are more like forms, the lists on List Mama Blog are more like Top 10 lists.

My goal is to blog everyday, but I am satisfied if I just blog every other day. I try to blog between 6 and 7 a.m. That is when my mind is functioning best and it is quiet in my house.

What has surprised me is how much I like it! It is fun to have a chance to be creative each and every day and to get to choose whatever I'd like to write about. It is writing more about whatever moves. me

[Angela Moore]

Awesome, awesome, awesome. I am a huge list person and I've been to your blog. It's awesome! Keep up the great work!

[Sugar and Sprouts]

GREAT site - thanks for doing it! I started blogging for my business as well (www.cafepress.com/sugarsprouts) but have found myself quickly addicted.

Are any of you on twitter? I am @sugarsprouts. Log on and "follow me" and I will follow you back! I love how much support is on twitter and the blogs. Keep it up Mommys!!!! We can all help each other.

[Christie]

I wish I had a schedule. I tried once...I was doing pretty good for a while until I realized I was keeping up too many blogs. I had one for my book, one for my coaching practice, and one for me...plus 2 podcasts! I was on overload. I still have my book blog which I post on every once in a while (www.bigsisterguides.com) and I consolidated my personal and coaching blog into one (www.christiecrowder.com) That helped my focus more...I still dont post as often as I would like to. I have been "blog-blocked" for a few weeks (LOL). I did, however, post an entry in my blog here a couple of days ago. I also now have another blog to keep up for my other business, Mommy Perks... but I only have to post to that once a month. Tone and theme...I write like I talk and I look to inspire people with my own personal experiences. What has surprised me... people do read it and they do tell me they like it but I wish they would leave comments on the actual blog instead of sending me an e-mail :)

[Sugar and Sprouts]

Honestly, I think I’d blog five times a day except that would be serious overkill. I try and make sure I have something quality every other day (and if I want to, fun stuff in between – check out post of American Idol winner – SOOO cute!).

Mostly I blog about things I see in my daughter, or things in the world around us that could affect her someday. Sometimes I am funny, sometimes sarcastic, and sometimes a bit warped. But I hope you check it out at:
http://sugarsprouts.wordpress.com

[Selene M. Bowlby]

I basically have a business blog - http://www.idesignstudios.com/blog/ - mostly about web design and small business topics (like marketing, self-promotion, etc.)

I don't have a set schedule, though I try to post at least once or twice a week. I'd like to do a set Tue / Thurs posting schedule, but of course that never happens... ;)

Although it's a business blog, I'd say the tone is pretty light. I write as though I were talking to you (except that I'm more shy in person than in writing, lol).

I'm working on improving both my posting - some posts give general info, but I'd like to write more REALLY helpful posts, lol.

I'm surprised by how much I enjoy it, and also by how long I spend on posts sometimes!

[MicheleD]

I have a business blog.

I used to be so erratic with my blogging, but now it's part of my daily life. I usually ruminate over ideas for days. But each morning one of those many inklings transforms into a coherent blog post! I don't post if I don't have anything to say, but being a working mom to three kids, plus a hubby, gives me plenty to write about.

When I first started blogging I used to sit with my mouth drooling over the great posts I saw from other mom bloggers. So witty, creative and spunky! I wondered if I should mirror those styles, but happily found one of my own. The tone of my blog is matter-of-fact, professional and from the heart. I don't think of myself as particularly witty, but I am smart and hopefully that shows! I also have a strong desire to build community and connections through my blog, so I think that comes through as well.

Sometimes, I'm surprised that people are actually reading my blog. I mean, that's the reason it's there, but when I don't post and people start sending me emails asking me where I am, it's kind of neat to know that people care!

[Stacy]

I try to find sites or products that interest me. I try to post a blog every other day. I normally will write them over the weekend.

[Shannon Paterson]

I've made a conscious effort to align the goals for my blog with the goals for my family -- I'm all about good, home-cooked food, living within our means, and having fun. And that's what my blog, AnchorMommy, reflects. So really, just going about our day-to-day life gives me the inspiration I need to blog. Oh, and having a good sense of humor helps too. And good editing software for vlogging...but I digress.

Two afternoons a week, my boy attends school which is when I do the bulk of my blogging and video editing. So far, the balance is working out great -- way better than how out-of-whack my life was when I was trying to work in TV news full-time and manage the household full-time!

I'm loving Hybrid Mom, by the way. :-) What a great concept!