Save time when you blog with these free resources
“By labor we can find food and water, but all of our labor will not find for us another hour.”~ Kenneth Patton
Whether you’re blogging for your business or for your hobby, it’s important essential to use your time efficiently. I learned some awesome time saving blogging techniques and tools at the BlogHer07 conference held in Chicago at the end of July. Barb Dybwad (who blogs at Weblogs, Inc. at AOL, Joystiq, geeked., and Engadget) and Gina Trapani (who blogs at Lifehacker) shared these efficiency ideas. Now it’s time to pass on some of their pearls of productivity wisdom and time-saving links.
Tools that save you time when blogging
- Type your blog posts faster with these tools — TextExpander and Texter (easy text expansion for common blogging markup, like href’s and blockquotes); AutoCopy for Firefox (never Ctrl+C again!); and CoLT Firefox extension (copy entire formatted links with text AND HTML). If you don’t use FireFox, get it now.
- Transfer files to/from your site without opening new software by using FireFTP in-Firefox.
- Add a multi- “bookmark this” icon to your site’s front page or to every post using AddThis.
- Easily submit and promote your posts to about 20 social bookmarking sites with Onlywire.
- Get every other time-saving tool, tip, and trick that Barb and Gina shared (and a few, fun time-wasting ones too
).
Other resources for using your blogging time effectively
- “Just remember: you don’t HAVE TO do anything,” says Tim Ferris, author of The 4-Hour Workweek. Read Darren Rowse’s interview of Tim where time-saving tips are liberally offered.
- Anne-Marie Nichols, of The Write Spot live blogged Barb and Gina’s session at BlogHer. Get the links they shared as well as Anne-Marie’s notes.
- Learn 6 time saving tips for interacting with your readers from Patric-Herber.
What tools save you time when you blog? What tool would you like to find?
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