Quotes n Notes: Planning

By on January 7, 2008 in Blog Coach, Quotes n Notes with 3 Comments

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"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

With the new year, many are planning their blog editorial schedule. A great idea, but realize that as things change, so might your schedule.

As you plan for your 2008 blogging, consider these tools to help with your planning (and change):

  • A Notebook: Equip yourself with a WUP, then Recognize and Record
  • Post-It Notes: I carry all sizes for various uses. Great for capturing thoughts in a season of change.
  • A Pen.  Yeah…a pen. I carry three, one for me…and two for the folks who forget theirs.

These tools will help you engage in-between those pulitzer-blog posts you’re planning. Check out Ginger (Snap!) Johnson rapid-fire conversation starters.

Remember, blogging can be a conversational tool. Don’t let a calendar either hamstring your creativity or turn your voice mechanical.

Maybe it’s time we "plan-as-you-go" in business and in business blogging.

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  • http://robdogg.com/wordpress How To Rule The World

    i think planning with the basis that plans will change and alter is most bloggers internet. I have already set and published my plans a goals for 2008 but that does not mean I will not change, alter or deviate from the plan to make an adjust or a new more realistic goal.

  • http://www.converstations.com Mike Sansone

    Hey Rob – Great addition. To be prepared is a great thing (especially with our schedules and info intake getting larger), but better to be nimble, so at change we can be quick. Have a great ’08

  • Tom Swartwood

    Actually DDE borrowed the concept from Herman Count Von Moltke, a leading Prussian military strategist, also affectionately known as Moltke the Elder, who added that no plan survives the first encounter with the enemy. Guy Kawasaki also refers to this conceptin his great book The art of the Start. As did the Marines in a white paper on military planning. http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/service_pubs/mcdp5.pdf
    Great stuff stranger.

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