Blogging Tip of the Day: 20 Types of Blog Posts for Your Creative Exploration and Inspiration

 

 Social Media = People Powered Media

So this post is the genesis of thinking about how to easily explain blogging to future and beginning bloggers.  Its a short and helpful resource for folks who want ways to organize their posts for creativity and productivity.  Enjoy!

 

• Quote and question

• Cool blog of the day

• Article

• Narrative or metaphor (Both Skellie and Chris Brogan are great about this)

• Rant (generally of an interpersonal relations, customer service, or media culture variety) (Marc Cuban and Seth Goodin are well known for this)

• Journal entry or letter (Dear Steve Jobs) (Dear Leta from Your Mama @ Dooce)

• Bulletpoint or list (this post by Anne Jackson is both personal and bulleted) (Beth Kanter nonprofit tech guru is a master of the resource list post)

• Link bait (news around the web in a specific area or random)

• Link bait resource (there are tons of options for creating resources) (this Chris Brogan resource post became a small meme, as Darren Barefoot chimed in with some additions to the list and Chris got tons of traffic, even if the traffic was primarily just a spike)

• Project or Meme post (almost 700,000 have checked out this video and vlogging meme) (there are various GTD and productivity projects on flickr as well as 365 days and Whiskerino)

• Interview (text, audio, video, or live UStream)

• Interview by an influential blogger or a not so influential one.

• Guest post on your blog

• Guest post on another influential blog

• Podcast (utterz, etc..) (Social media guru Chris Brogan Utterz) (Jeremiah’s Utterz here and at Web Strategist)

• Video (YouTube or one of the other free video hosting and sharing services.  Rohit explains an issue you may want to consider for YouTube posts and channels) I have a wide assortment of nonprofit, politics, church and online marketing Channels on YouTube

• Delicious Favorites (add me to your network)

• Other multimedia (ie Slideshare, Flickr, etc..)

• Your journey in life. Your journey along your unique social media adventure and the interactions you have with other people. 

• The one (or more) you invent….

This list is just the tip of the iceberg….

What can I add?  Did I leave anything off? What do you think gets the best return? Thoughts? If you want a little inspiration….I thought I would include this rock’n video from the Free Hugs campaign!

( image credit: fanboy30 )