Interactions: A Great Source of Inspiration for Thought Leaders
Your blog is up and running and you are so ready to share your thoughts and ideas with others. The first blog posts come out nicely as you can simply tap into your notes and mental drawer and write about issues that you have been wondering about for a long time.
Who said writing is difficult? That is until you have emptied your brain and gone through all of your notes. Now you suddenly have difficulties finding inspiration for writing more blog posts. What should you do?
You should find ways in which you can tap into and interact with your chosen community. Think LinkedIn. Join groups that are relevant for you, listen to the conversations and participate yourself. When you start engaging in these conversations, you will soon experience how thoughts and ideas start flying around as you build further on not only your own input, but also on the ideas of others.
You can do the same with blogs and communities with a high level of activity. You can even do this with Twitter by identifying relevant keywords and start tracking those. This will bring you interesting links to check out – and retweet to others – as well as give you an opportunity to engage with others although the direct discussion is limited on Twitter compared with LinkedIn groups and some blogs.
This works for me. Let me know what you think and what inspires you on writing great content that can inspire others.
Hi Stefan, twitter is a platform for introductions for me. I’m not particularly “good” at writing and most of the time prefer to let others do it. I can then comment on same, that’s why I saw the need for Irishdebate – where others can do the talking and are not confined to 140 characters. The wonderful thing about twitter is of course is, relationships can evolve. We often have tweetups based on conversations that occured first on twitter. Sometimes we connect in linkedin or fb based on the “like minded” idea. – I joined your linkedin btw…
br, Joe
Hi Stefan – you’re right. It doesn’t even matter if you haven’t downloaded all your thoughts into the blog. The interaction on sites like yours, Twitter, LinkedIn etc enriches existing thoughts as well as inspiring new ones. It’s a whole lot more interesting than talking to yourself (metaphorically speaking….). It’s also inspiring when it’s provocative, like your Nissan post on 15inno. I know I can serve my consulting clients better as a result of what I learn, and how my existing opinions and knowledge develop, through online interactions.