I have three blogs that I manage. This one, one for a client (The Admin Professional), and my niche blog (Time Management Tips) and as I start this niche blog I realize that I am going to have to get a lot more organized with this whole blogging thing if I want to keep up to date on everything. So, I’ve been thinking about doing editorial calendars.
And it makes sense doesn’t it. If you want to make money with something you need to treat it like a business and if you were working a day job you’d have to plan things out so that you could get everything done. The editorial calendar is my first step to treating my writing more like a business. Wait – my second step. The first step was getting Chrometa set up with a permanent license!
I started searching around a little to see if I could get some ideas on how other people do editorial calendars. Do they do them online or do they have paper calendars? I have a hard time deciding which one works best for me. I like the feel of putting pen to paper but I also like to have access to my calendar whenever I want it and having it online is good for that.
As I was looking around I found out that there is a WordPress plugin that will give you an editorial calendar for you blog! And it is pretty cool! It won’t work for The Admin Professional (not WordPress hosted) but it will be great for this blog and for my Time Management Tips blog. So I plugged it in here. Easy to install. And now I need to do some posts to start filling it up. I’ll likely work on the Time Management Tips blog first though.
If you want a preview of it you should check out Chris Garret‘s YouTube tutorial video. Which reminds me that I need to go and subscribe to his feeds because he’s got a lot of great stuff and while I’ve read some in the past I’ve somehow forgotten to add him to my feed reader!
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Woah, I’ve been wondering about getting a calendar thing going for a while. Didn’t know there was a handy dandy plugin for it!
Sweetness in deed! Thanks for the great tip and post.
–PK
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June 29, 2010 at 4:01 am
Glad you both liked it. I think it is a great tool for anyone that is serious about blogging!
Thanks for the great tip – I have already installed the plug in and love it…
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I did not know such calendar exists until I read this post. Thank you so much for the information.