2 Secrets To Removing Blogger’s Block

It’s going to happen to you some time: blogger’s block.

The dreaded moment when you stare endlessly into your monitor thinking to yourself, “What can I write about?” Well, you’ve likely discovered many interesting things on the Web that you could write about, so maybe you just need a way to store all that knowledge to refer to. Here are two tips I use that you may find useful as well.

Google Notebook sits in the lower right corner of my Firefox browser. As I do my browsing and find something of interest, I activate it’s pop-up window and “clip” the URL and/or any content that I highlight. (This is how I take note of my Drum Corps candidates.:) ).

Managing my account is easy. I can rearrange items to other notebooks of mine or simply reorder the ones that I’ve already categorized. Comments can even be added to ensure nothing gets lost.

Another tool I find useful is Diigo (pronounced “dee-go”). True, it’s one of many social bookmarking offerings, but I find this one to offer a few more features, or maybe it’s just that it works well for me.

When I’m viewing a page I like — any web page — I can highlight content and also have it stored in my account along with the bookmark. What I find nifty if the ability to add sticky notes on the page for future reference. I can make these notes for my eyes only, or viewable by other Diigo users who have configured their toolbar to view other people’s sticky notes when they visit the same page.

Adding a special tag to my discoveries (e.g., “articles”, “posts”, “to-write-about”…whatever) can make it easy for me to find them again, thus de-cluttering my browser’s bookmarks.

So no more excuses about not knowing what to write about. 🙂

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