Follow the Yellow Brick Road

I will admit, I'm a bit of a to-do-list junkie. I'm always making another list, or reading another book about it. It's one of the first things I do. So, of course, I'm going to make a to-do list for my blog. 

My favorite to-do list mediums are real notebooks and spreadsheets. For a little while, I used OneNote, but I am too good at crashing it. Spreadsheets are universally legible and expand in every direction, which is how I like to think. 

So, first, one night I just made a list of the topics I knew I should share with you.

Over the next few days, I dragged them around until I had an order that I wanted to release them in. That is one of the beauties of using spreadsheet.

Then, I had fun re-writing the list into titles that would help me remember the inspiration and purpose.

And the end result:

Blogs:

11/21/17 1. Follow the Yellow Brick Road.

This here. The index/check list of the next few articles. However, it did take a little more than just writing the list.

11/28/17 2. Collaborating as a guest author.

One of my students had to make a blog for homework, and his classmates (and tutor) were acting clueless about the matter. So I did a little research and made a blog post to illustrate. Later on, his classmates did figure out how it worked, so he didn't need it.

So I've decided to post it here, instead. Spoiler alert: It's bi-lingual

12/05/17 3. Who? What? When?

Scheduling the posts; Automated scheduling; Future and back-dated delivery

12/12/17 4.0 Pain points research paraphrase

12/19/17 5.0 Target audience

12/26/17 6.0 Pain points of Blog Readers

12/26/17 7.0 Pain points of Donors

01/02/18 8.0 Mission Statement

01/02/18 9.0 Adjust initial blog about purpose of this blog

01/09/18 10.0 “About Us” page research summary

01/16/18 11.0 Page on purpose and About Us

01/16/18 12.0 Adjust third blog about dropping off etc.

01/23/18 12.0 Button, button, Who's got my button?

The blonde lost her blog (button)

01/30/18 13.0 Landing Page research summary paraphrase

14.0 How to Make a landing page

02/06/18 15.0 Coming in for landing

Comments on the adventure of breaking the hypothetical barrier: Actually making my own landing page

02/13/18 16.0 Upcoming newsletter planning

02/20/18 17.0 WhatsApp? Twitter? Facebook?

Advantages of different social media; Research summary

02/27/18 18.0 Signing up for PayPal

03/06/18 19.0 The Computer Running the World

Experimenting with “Newsletter Automators”

03/13/18 20.0 Creating a Page for the Book

Making a Facebook Page

03/20/18 21.0 Facebook Page research paraphrase

They said what?

03/27/18 22.0 The Proper Way to Say Thank You

I bet you didn't know there was a proper way. Admittedly, neither did I. However, I had the advantage of a constant lurking sensation that there are proper ways of doing everything, but no one has told me. This time, I was kind of right.

04/03/18 23.0 Training for a Thank-a-Thon

04/10/18 24.0 The Ghost of Website Attempts Past

Finding and merging earlier attempts, if they are still out there.

04/17/18 25.0 Now what?

Next task-list article, because at this moment, this is as far as I can foresee. Of course, when I get there, there will be a whole new article about what I'll be doing next.

As I write and post these, I'll add the links. I will probably also eventually create an index page or article, with the full list and what order they (maybe) should go in. 

After I had shuffled the posts, I then had to decide on dates. That was, on one hand, fairly simple; I only wanted to post once a week. 

One the other hand, it was pretty much guaranteed that therefore, the articles would appear at some time other than the most appropriate.

Why?

Because, for example, it was near Thanksgiving when I did the research on the Thank-a-Thon. And that was not just a single blog. That was the research, and the prep work, and the next week the application. Three blogs; a month-worth. However, you WILL eventually receive them. And this will be even easier next year. They will already be written. 

An advantage to that is the fact that while I'm out of town on a mission trip, these will still post like clockwork. That is a pretty big advantage, because, after all, I didn't come this far out of the States just to start a blogging business. Unlike what sometimes happens in the U.S., it's fairly easy to avoid getting stuck in cyber-space. The real world is right on our doorstep here, and it doesn't accept “Later” as an answer. 

So I'm glad that cyber-space does.

Anyhow, what order do you think they should go in? 

Is there one in particular that I should put a rush order on?

How do you organize and order your posts?

How do you decide on the best order?