Comments on: Say Anything — Managing Your Blog Vacations http://www.burstblog.com/2008/01/16/say-anything/ The Official BlogBurst Blog! Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:21:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: pajamadeen http://www.burstblog.com/2008/01/16/say-anything/#comment-99588 pajamadeen Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:23:18 +0000 http://www.burstblog.com/2008/01/16/say-anything/#comment-99588 WordPress has a useful feature to help with this if the blogger is just taking a vacation and expects to be back. When one goes to write a WP post, the post timestamp can be edited and set to any date. That way, a series of posts can be written but they're not activated until date(s) chosen by the blogger. Very handy! There's another feature in WordPress which allow one to write "on the fly" and post via an e'mail address, but I haven't had a need to try that feature yet and am not sure I'd want to write "on the fly," as I like to write a post and then carefully scrutinize it for any bloopers before hitting the "publish" button. WordPress has a useful feature to help with this if the blogger is just taking a vacation and expects to be back. When one goes to write a WP post, the post timestamp can be edited and set to any date. That way, a series of posts can be written but they’re not activated until date(s) chosen by the blogger. Very handy!

There’s another feature in WordPress which allow one to write “on the fly” and post via an e’mail address, but I haven’t had a need to try that feature yet and am not sure I’d want to write “on the fly,” as I like to write a post and then carefully scrutinize it for any bloopers before hitting the “publish” button.

]]> By: Decorno.blogspot.com http://www.burstblog.com/2008/01/16/say-anything/#comment-87113 Decorno.blogspot.com Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:36:43 +0000 http://www.burstblog.com/2008/01/16/say-anything/#comment-87113 A lot of decor and design blogs whose authors are about to go on vacation or otherwise AWOL will have friends and other bloggers step-in as "guest blogger." This is a great way to keep up your traffic and reward readers with fresh content. A lot of decor and design blogs whose authors are about to go on vacation or otherwise AWOL will have friends and other bloggers step-in as “guest blogger.” This is a great way to keep up your traffic and reward readers with fresh content.

]]> By: Healthy Tips http://www.burstblog.com/2008/01/16/say-anything/#comment-86909 Healthy Tips Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:44:21 +0000 http://www.burstblog.com/2008/01/16/say-anything/#comment-86909 This is a good post. Sometimes I get to a blog which hasn't had a new post for over a year, yet there's no notification about it. So..yeah..people should "say something". This is a good post.
Sometimes I get to a blog which hasn’t had a new post for over a year, yet there’s no notification about it.
So..yeah..people should “say something”.

]]> By: Tim Walker http://www.burstblog.com/2008/01/16/say-anything/#comment-86445 Tim Walker Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:05:58 +0000 http://www.burstblog.com/2008/01/16/say-anything/#comment-86445 Dock -- Another useful ploy for this: if you know it's going to be, say, two weeks that you'll have down-time, you can re-post "classics" that you've written before. Good candidates: posts that drew the most comments, posts from a year ago when you made predictions about something, posts that you thought had something really good in them but never caught on somehow. Best is to pair this with an explanation such as you suggest: "Hey, folks, posting is going to be light for the next couple of weeks because of XYZ. I thought I'd use this chance to re-think some of my favorite posts from the past." Then if you put a one-sentence lead-in for each of them - at least you're giving the audience *something* to mull over. Dock — Another useful ploy for this: if you know it’s going to be, say, two weeks that you’ll have down-time, you can re-post “classics” that you’ve written before. Good candidates: posts that drew the most comments, posts from a year ago when you made predictions about something, posts that you thought had something really good in them but never caught on somehow.

Best is to pair this with an explanation such as you suggest: “Hey, folks, posting is going to be light for the next couple of weeks because of XYZ. I thought I’d use this chance to re-think some of my favorite posts from the past.” Then if you put a one-sentence lead-in for each of them - at least you’re giving the audience *something* to mull over.

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