If you have more than one blog, do you ever wonder which blog you will post to on a given day, or a given issue? Or is it just me?
Because there are days when I wish that I had just one blog, or one main one, or perhaps blogs with such mutually exclusive subject areas, that I would not have a dilemma as to where to post a particular item or about a particular issue. Sometimes it’s clear, sometimes a toss of the coin.
Last week I had not one, but two of these “which blog will I post to? ” moments.
The first was when I was disturbed that I could not find out much in the blogosphere about what was happening in Burma. The second was about where to post some notes and observations from last Friday’s Australian Blogging Conference in Brisbane.
In both cases, another blog, Thinking Home Business, got the gong. Not because the topics were not appropriate for posting about here, but because:
In neither case however was the decision the obvious one.
For the Burma posts I had to depart from my policy till then not to post on Thinking Home Business about political issues, even ones about which I felt strongly, so posting not one, but two posts about the repression in Burma was for me a significant step. As I say, the traffic potential was the decider.
For the blogging conference post, the dilemma was because most of the readers of Thinking Home Business are not in Australia but in the United States. And there are more from Ireland and Canada than from Australia. I do post on that blog from time to time about Australian issues and experiences, but my intention has always been for the blog to be more global than local.
All of this weighing of considerations over the posts in question, together with the kind of introspection and business analysis that a good conference like last Friday’s can stimulate, has helped me over the weekend to crystallize some thoughts about the future of both this site and the Thinking Home Business site.
The short story is that:
That should help me have fewer instances of the “where will I post this?” dilemma.
If you have faced that dilemma and have some suggestions as to how to handle it, please share.
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I blog religion usually but also love scifi and tech stuff. I started a second blog for the tech stuff but found that when I was writing about scifi, I was looking at religious themes in the the scifi so I never know where to post about scifi! Like you I try to develop a kind of policy to try and make the decision. The thing is that there is always one blog that you kind of work on and favour more than the others.
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I certainly understand your struggle. My equivalent to deswalsh.com is the Pacific Highlander blog. Only problem is that I don’t have a lot of traffic there compared to some other sites I run. Maybe the solution is to have excerpts from this at the high traffic blog - raising awareness of the issues I’m blogging on and building traffic as well.
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Some people will begin blogging about numerous subjects of interest and naturally evolve to focus on areas of greater interest. I’ve visited blogs with a sense that the blogger is multi-tasking and others with a clear intention and concentration. Each blogger finds his or her own niche, develops an audience and runs with it. Sometimes instinct is a great guide!
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