Ideation: Blogging with passion - Soulful Excellence
This morning, as I do from time to time, I asked the question (on Twitter)... "What should I blog about?" As normal I got a few chimes that came my way with interesting ideas. Now, the people who follow me on a regular basis kinda know my "vibe", so they offer up really great ideas - BUT you always have the random ideas, that even if I wanted to blog about them, I couldn't because I have no love for them, no "passion" - SO this leads me to the idea that I want to spread... Ideation, the process of generating ideas: passionate blog post I am a firm believer in ideas, but I am an even bigger believer in passionate, soulful ideas, and though I am going to talk about the ideation process as it pertains to generating blog post that are passionate and relevant, I want to make it part of public record that this process should apply to EVERY IDEA that you generate... It will indeed matter... Ideate in your field of passion. Period. I can feel blog post... So can your readers, so when you write a blog post MAKE DARN sure that it's something that you are passionate about. Do not blog, just for the sake of blogging... That sucks. Blog about things that really matter to you, blog about things that are compelling to you. IF you take just this one bit of advice, your blog post will be stickier, and your ideas will spread. Your content will be sustainable - revisiting the content FOR YOU will be a delight, and you can build on the knowledge share of your content with grace. So on to the Ideation process, or at least MY ideation process... 1. Crowd Source - Find out what your audience has concerns about. Your readers want to be talked to, not talked at.
2. Sift - Sift through the noise, capture the ideas that line up with your field of passion
3. Refine - Take what you discover and shape it to an idea that you can get fired up about, for example: One of my Followers (@LifeofSubstance) tweets... "@VincentHunt blog about ideation... as in how u get ideas about what to blog about" I took this and asked myself a few questions, internal ones, and I discovered that though I think it's important to talk about the ideation process, I think it's MORE important (to me, and hopefully you) that I dig deeper and talk about the "vein" that the ideas need to come from, THEN support that idea with a process - THUS... Ideation: Blogging with passion - Soulful Excellence ... becomes the blog post. This idea is something that I can get fired up about, and it allows me to feed my readers content that matters to them, while also giving me the space I need to fully rest in my passion field (no worries... I will be blogging about "passion fields", I have mentioned it quite a bit in this post). 4. Deliver - Deliver the idea with the passion that created it. Write it in YOUR style, and make the words come alive on the screen. In conclusion.. The Ideation process behind finding topics to blog about should be an organic one. One that supports and nurtures your passion field, delivers relevant and meaningful content to your readers and last but not east, compels your readers to engage your content in a way that is sustainable.
2. Sift - Sift through the noise, capture the ideas that line up with your field of passion
3. Refine - Take what you discover and shape it to an idea that you can get fired up about, for example: One of my Followers (@LifeofSubstance) tweets... "@VincentHunt blog about ideation... as in how u get ideas about what to blog about" I took this and asked myself a few questions, internal ones, and I discovered that though I think it's important to talk about the ideation process, I think it's MORE important (to me, and hopefully you) that I dig deeper and talk about the "vein" that the ideas need to come from, THEN support that idea with a process - THUS... Ideation: Blogging with passion - Soulful Excellence ... becomes the blog post. This idea is something that I can get fired up about, and it allows me to feed my readers content that matters to them, while also giving me the space I need to fully rest in my passion field (no worries... I will be blogging about "passion fields", I have mentioned it quite a bit in this post). 4. Deliver - Deliver the idea with the passion that created it. Write it in YOUR style, and make the words come alive on the screen. In conclusion.. The Ideation process behind finding topics to blog about should be an organic one. One that supports and nurtures your passion field, delivers relevant and meaningful content to your readers and last but not east, compels your readers to engage your content in a way that is sustainable.


