On Blogging Australia

Life is easier as a blogger if you have a definable niche - you can then use ideas like reframing to generate meaningful content generation. You don’t have to define a niche, true - but it does make life easier.

An easy way to reframe content is to blog about the place that you live - blog regionally. If I blogged more about Canberra, for example, I would have posting ideas from the weekend just coming to an end about:

• the fun that Helen and I had at the HIYA (Hearing Impaired Youth ACT) Trivia Night on Friday night,
• the not-so-fun we had all day Saturday looking at houses for sale (and the experience we had with different real estate agents),
• the amazing Yum Cha at Noble Palace Chinese Restaurant in Phillip,
• the helpful lady at the Three Mobile office today (Sunday), and
• the wonderful people we met this afternoon handing out tea, coffee and sausage sandwiches as part of the Driver Reviver effort.

Lots of content ideas there. I could reframe any of them in different ways to work as content for this blog - there are marketing angles to all the stories above that fit nicely into the world of blogging.

If you don’t have a region-specific blog, do you use things from your daily life as inspiration for blog posts within your niche? If not, why not?

Note: I’ve entered this post in Darren Rowse’s 31 Days group writing project.