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    my blog?

  • Add RSS feeds
  • Find out how to put a feed out through Google
  • Add lots of pictures
  • Get others involved in promoting my blog
  • Get others involved in providing content for my blog
  • Utilize Google advertising tools to make money
  • Modify

    What can I modify to improve my blog?

  • Change the color scheme
  • Add lots
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    I really enjoy using creativity tools so I decided to use a tool called S.C.A.M.P.E.R to create some new ideas for my blog. The acronym S.C.A.M.P.E.R stands for substitute, combine, adapt, modify, put to another use, and rearrange. Basically, this tool is a checklist of idea-spurring questions. S.C.A.M.P.E.R was made popular in the book Thinkertoys by Michael Michalko.

    Here is how I used it -

    I started out by asking myself the following question:

    “In what ways might I improve my blog?”

    Using this question as the start point I set off to use S.C.A.M.P.E.R to generate new ideas.

    Substitute

    What content or style can I substitute on my blog?

  • Start an online diary
  • Convert it to a news site
  • Make it a gossip site
  • Convert it to a video blogging site
  • Convert it to an audio blogging site
  • Provide video news casts
  • Provide opinions on topics of the day
  • Promote the latest headlines in the news
  • Start an online magazine
  • Convert it into a social networking site
  • Provide provocative content
  • Combine

    What ideas can I combine with blogging to improve the blog?

  • Combine current news with future predictions
  • Make the blog a combined free/membership site
  • Focus the blog on helping to improve the plight of people around the world
  • Discuss current events
  • Discuss political and business leaders from around the world
  • Adapt

    What ideas can I adapt to improve my blog?

  • Add RSS feeds
  • Find out how to put a feed out through Google
  • Add lots of pictures
  • Get others involved in promoting my blog
  • Get others involved in providing content for my blog
  • Utilize Google advertising tools to make money
  • Modify

    What can I modify to improve my blog?

  • Change the color scheme
  • Add lots
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    Here is how I used it -

    I started out by asking myself the following question:

    “In what ways might I improve my blog?”

    Using this question as the start point I set off to use S.C.A.M.P.E.R to generate new ideas.

    Substitute

    What content or style can I substitute on my blog?

  • Start an online diary
  • Convert it to a news site
  • Make it a gossip site
  • Convert it to a video blogging site
  • Convert it to an audio blogging site
  • Provide video news casts
  • Provide opinions on topics of the day
  • Promote the latest headlines in the news
  • Start an online magazine
  • Convert it into a social networking site
  • Provide provocative content
  • Combine

    What ideas can I combine with blogging to improve the blog?

  • Combine current news with future predictions
  • Make the blog a combined free/membership site
  • Focus the blog on helping to improve the plight of people around the world
  • Discuss current events
  • Discuss political and business leaders from around the world
  • Adapt

    What ideas can I adapt to improve my blog?

  • Add RSS feeds
  • Find out how to put a feed out through Google
  • Add lots of pictures
  • Get others involved in promoting my blog
  • Get others involved in providing content for my blog
  • Utilize Google advertising tools to make money
  • Modify

    What can I modify to improve my blog?

  • Change the color scheme
  • Add lots
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    it a gossip site
  • Convert it to a video blogging site
  • Convert it to an audio blogging site
  • Provide video news casts
  • Provide opinions on topics of the day
  • Promote the latest headlines in the news
  • Start an online magazine
  • Convert it into a social networking site
  • Provide provocative content
  • Combine

    What ideas can I combine with blogging to improve the blog?

  • Combine current news with future predictions
  • Make the blog a combined free/membership site
  • Focus the blog on helping to improve the plight of people around the world
  • Discuss current events
  • Discuss political and business leaders from around the world
  • Adapt

    What ideas can I adapt to improve my blog?

  • Add RSS feeds
  • Find out how to put a feed out through Google
  • Add lots of pictures
  • Get others involved in promoting my blog
  • Get others involved in providing content for my blog
  • Utilize Google advertising tools to make money
  • Modify

    What can I modify to improve my blog?

  • Change the color scheme
  • Add lots
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    an I combine with blogging to improve the blog?

  • Combine current news with future predictions
  • Make the blog a combined free/membership site
  • Focus the blog on helping to improve the plight of people around the world
  • Discuss current events
  • Discuss political and business leaders from around the world
  • Adapt

    What ideas can I adapt to improve my blog?

  • Add RSS feeds
  • Find out how to put a feed out through Google
  • Add lots of pictures
  • Get others involved in promoting my blog
  • Get others involved in providing content for my blog
  • Utilize Google advertising tools to make money
  • Modify

    What can I modify to improve my blog?

  • Change the color scheme
  • Add lots
    8 Simple Rules For-Successful Blogging!
    They are in order of importance, 1 being the most important.1. - - --Create good content to act as what everyone has been calling 'linkbait'. This can be done a number of ways:a) By saying something controversial. This can only be 'used' a few times as it gets old after a while. This is a way of grabbing the attention you deserve and is especially effective if it is the Title o
    my blog?

  • Add RSS feeds
  • Find out how to put a feed out through Google
  • Add lots of pictures
  • Get others involved in promoting my blog
  • Get others involved in providing content for my blog
  • Utilize Google advertising tools to make money
  • Modify

    What can I modify to improve my blog?

  • Change the color scheme
  • Add lots of pictures
  • Add lots of links
  • Ask other website owners to link to my blog
  • Sell information products from my blog
  • Put to another use

    How can I put my blog to another use?

  • Use blog to help me write my book
  • Use blog to tell stories
  • Use blog to present my ideas
  • Use blog to display my work
  • Use blog to outline my goals, dreams, and progress towards my goals
  • Eliminate

    How can I improve my blog by eliminating something?

  • Eliminate bland color scheme
  • Eliminate unnecessary updates
  • Rearrange.

    How can I improve my blog by rearranging it?

    3 columns

  • Links on left
  • Content/updates in center
  • Links on right
  • 2 columns

  • Pictures on left
  • Content/updates on right
  • I hope this helps you to see how you can use creativity tools to help you improve anything you can think of. You may also see an idea or two that you can use on your own blog - have at it!

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