I often start a post, or a title, and then leave it in a list or half written post somewhere to die.
Let’s just say I’m really good about curating my ideas into tombs or mausoleums. Maybe one day I can be a very well-paid (and verbose) idea crypt keeper.
Recently, my friend Laurie Ruettimann shared some of her unwritten blog post ideas. That inspired me to drag the corpses titles into the daylight.
Here’s a whole bunch of blog post titles I started, thought of, never finished, or published:
- A few thoughts on prioritizing social media over real life
- Social consumerism, or how to get stranger’s friends to buy crap
- Facebook isn’t for deep thoughts
- How I (don’t) blog
- The YouTube time warp, or 72 hours in a minute
- Your social media signs are worthless
- What frictionless sharing is really like
- Social networks for selling crap
- Social networks don’t tell stories
- The one true way to blog
- Performance in the age of the timeline
- Why you get angry over whiny tweets
- Social media holiday gift guide
- Social media and coercing
- On Klout
- Follower churn
- How many screens do we need?
- What the hell do you plan to accomplish on social media?
- Who the hell do you plan to talk to on social media?
- Is the personal brand the online identity unifier?
- Is online identity anything like real identity?
- Tech writing is a bunch of mysteries and nonsense
- Your brand is arrogant for wanting engagement
- Your connection are feeble
- A retweet doesn’t say you matter
- You can’t have sharing both ways
- Behind the scenes of a customer service tweet
- Social media and TV
- Why do guys on Twitter always describe themselves as Husband and Father?
- Who came up with a crappy idea like smart phone learning?
There you go. A whole month of social media blogging that I’v e avoided or thought was too boring to actually post.
What are the titles that you haven’t written yet?
hahaha
the titles are interesting
@farouk111 Yeah, but some of the accompanying posts are pure crap.
#25 would be worthwhile. I can vouch for the truthiness of #22 because I was a technical writer for 7 years. My assignments were mostly vaporware. You are too young to remember vaporware, but it was a hot trend in the 80s in Silicon Valley.
@wagnerwrites I remember when Duke Nukem forever was vaporware, but then they finally released it.
@wagnerwrites Nahhh, the software was the vaporware. You work, as a technical writer, wasn’t vaporware. We can never have enough tech writers, IMNSHO.
I think @JayDolan needs to start an Anti-social media Pinterest board. I love Pinterest, it is embarrassing to admit how much fun it is.
P.S. And I love that I can pin your posts now. They go into my formally named Socialfication pinboard.
@wagnerwrites I try to keep up with the times. I figured the cartoons are perfect for Pinterest.
The idea that bloggers need to post new stuff all the time leads to a lot of crap. Posting every day is great, but only if you have something to say.
Thanks for exercising restraint.
@ar_turnbull I have nothing to say but some funny shit.
Good stuff! Go ahead and write these. I’ll read ‘em.
Best: “Your connection are feeble” [sic] is perfect as is, and “A retweet doesn’t say you matter” (I keep… LOL’ing at that. No, I have no shame. I over-lol).
A few answers for number 29… I wondered about it a lot, never read any mention of it until your highly original ;o) post. There’s the “I am mature, responsible” meaning. And the “don’t follow me if you’re a pr0n bot” meaning. Or depressing scenario: When you meet someone new, friendly, nice, and within a day, their static description changes to “husband and father”.
Here’s a suggestion for number 31 (although I lol’d some more at “smart phone learning”): Facebook phone will finally make mobile go social. As though using a phone weren’t social for the past 100 years before now.