Abaminds

Here are more 22 lists you can get ideas from:

10 Life Lessons Learned While Camping by Ad Tracker -Lessons #1 and #8 might inspire some cooking-related stuff. Lessons #2, #5 and #9 could give you some nice ideas if you belong to the self-improvement niche. The whole post shows you how to turn an (apparently) ordinary event into content for your blog or site.

100 Ways to Personally Conquer Chaos at Work by Judy Martin - Despite being mentioned in the article’s title, “work” isn’t exactly its actual focus. It doesn’t take too much imagination to apply most of the post’s lessons and concepts to niches like spirituality and personal development. Many of the items listed just give you basic ideas without teaching you how to achieve the desired results (see for instance items #3, #13, #38, #63 and #95). Therefore you could research their respective how-tos and then write your own articles, or even e-books.

How to prepare for Christmas by Ajay - The 3rd suggestion might give some ideas to fitness-related site owners (”How To Get Fit For Christmas” comes to mind). Many webmasters could start a sort of campaign based on the 7th list item.

3 Things I Wish I Knew Then What I Know Now by Stephen Hopson - This amusing post ends in a question. Answer it with your own post — or maybe shoot a video response and upload it to YouTube. In any case, this could be good material for both personal and niche sites. Also pay attention to the stories told in the article. There are questions in two of them. By imagining possible replies you could have more nice ideas, and I bet those would be perfect for humour blogs.

What you think is what you see: 4 Ways to stop negativity by Holli Jo - The author  illustrates some abstract concepts with a simple yet highly effective practical example — read the second paragraph to see what I mean. It would be great if you came up with more practical examples and real life situations to explain the 4 lessons taught in that post.

The Quitter’s Checklist by Em Dy - I confess this title misled me. I expected either a motivational article — to persuade people not to give up — or an ironic post meant to poke fun at quitters. As you’ll see, this post actually deals with another issue. That doesn’t mean you can’t write articles that meet one of my original expectations. Just make sure to create a new title. You may also read Em Dy’s list and write posts elaborating more on each item. Some of them — the 2nd and the 6th, for instance — would make good forum discussions, so keep this in mind if you are a moderator, admin or simply a member who wants to start new interesting threads.

5 Things That I Believe To Be Lies by Krizza - Another great source of forum threads is here. The article’s title itself could be used as a new topic. It’s also good for interviews, personality tests and surveys. All list items are very thought-provoking. The last ones might give you enough reasons to fill a whole book, especially if you are interested in religion. If parenting is your thing, you’ll certainly want to discuss #3.

3 Ways to Bring Back the Joy to the Holidays by Karen Lynch - I believe items #1 and #2 to be more inspiring than the final one. The former could prompt you to write something like “How to Feed Your Soul in Ten Steps.” The latter could you make you write an article about the opt-in and opt-out concepts. Or maybe two articles. Or even a whole series, who knows?

5 reasons (not) to drink coffee by Lodewijkvdb - This post mentions two medical researches in which women have been partially or totally ignored. Feminists — and pro-equality men — may want to discuss this subject. If you play in niches like health, science and medicine, you can research how usual (or not) such practise is. For some reason, I feel that humourists — especially the ones more inclined to mock the corporate world — might take some interesting ideas from the two lists in that article…

Form a running habit with seven easy steps by Shane Magee - See how well-structured this article is. The author makes good use of quotes, everyday situations and common sense to convey his message. Consequently, we have a post that is both motivational and practical. I advise you to study it and try to apply its effective style to an article aimed at your niche, no matter what it is. Alternatively, you can follow the post’s tips and report your results after some weeks. It would be good for sport-related sites and personal blogs or podcasts.

5 Surefire Ways To Increase Comments On Your Blog by Vijay - You could write or podcast a response to this article from a commenter’s point of view. Or you could debate whether those tips work in your niche or not.

100 Ways To Promote A Startup by Jason Drohn - Do everything (or at least most things) that the author suggests and write a book explaining exactly the ups and downs of each tip. Do everything again — just switching to a different niche — and repeat the process. Choose yet another niche and repeat again. In a few years you’ll have created a complete marketing series.

10 Ways To Work Through Your Workout by Gal Josefsberg - Are you a podcaster looking for more listeners? Read this list’s 3rd and 5th items. Both might give you some promotion ideas.

9 Ways To Achieve Success in Life by Adebola Oni - Item #5 is rather controversial. Many might argue that listening to (some) critics may actually help you achieve success in life. The discussion of this topic would fit in several types of forums and blogs.

5 Crash Course Tips in Viral Marketing by John Murch - A post that (nearly) all content producers looking for more traffic could read and discuss. The techniques mentioned by the author might be debated on a webmasters forum or mailing list. You could evaluate the tips’ effectiveness and/or suggest other tactics, preferably niche-oriented ones.

Top 23 Motivation Tips, Tricks and Tactics from the Blogosphere by Mike Ambrose - I like the kind of research the author did in order to build his post. It’s the sort of thing that most bloggers could do too. Why don’t you try? Appart from it, you’ll see that many (if not all) of the topics listed in the article are good creativity sparkers, as they deal with things that most of us can relate to. As an example, you could try something like “How to Reward Yourself After Completing a Task.”

5 Blogging Ups, 5 Blogging Downs, and 10 Blogging Tips by Albert Foong - It could also be named “How to Publish an Off-Topic Article on Your Blog And Make Your Readers Thank You For That.” I’m serious: the post is off-topic indeed, yet it was well-received by the author’s readers. Study this case and see if you can try something similar on your site.

150 Funniest Resume Mistakes, Bloopers and Blunders Ever by Jacob Share - If you don’t get too distracted laughing at all those mistakes (like I did), you’ll see just how many things you could do based on this post: article series, videos, comic strips, illustration series, forum threads… you name it.

Six Savvy Reasons Why You Should Travel Light by Sheila Beal - Since I’m a non-native English speaker, there are several expressions I’m not familiar with. “Traveling light” used to be one of them. When I first read this article’s title, for a brief moment I thought it dealt with the possibility of using light as a means of transportation. Naturally, this made me think that the author should be crazy. Well, I hope this little confession of mine will give you some (humourous) ideas. Regarding the article itself, I must highlight an interesting tactic employed on it: ending most tips by explicitly stating the benefits one would get from them. Bloggers and non-fiction writers could try this as a way to improve their pieces.

12 Wordpress Editors you can choose by Karthik - Leverage this post by starting a blog editor review series. Don’t simply write superficial reviews; go for in-depth analysis of features, hidden gems, advantages and limitations. Add several screenshots to your posts. Alternatively, make video reviews.

17 POWER Tips For StumbleUpon Beginners by Dr. Mani - This article’s structure may come in handy for beginning bloggers and/or for those struggling with blogger’s block: create a very basic list compiling common-sense knowledge about a popular topic, and enhance each list item by linking to longer posts published on other blogs. I’ve done it myself (on another blog) and the results were great. It may work for you too.

10 Ways to Survive the Writers’ Strike by Cynthia Boris - A pretty inspiring post, for several reasons: it turns a current news issue into a piece that will be amusing even after the news get old; there is humour in it; some tips sound rather absurd, but all of them are perfectly doable. Therefore, it’s a good read for bloggers and writers who want to improve themselves. Besides, by following some of the post’s tips you’ll have a lot to write or podcast about — see #2 and #7.

More inspiring lists will be analysed in the last part of this series. Don’t miss it; subscribe to Abamind’s feed. *hint, hint*

Posted on December 16th, 2007 by Karen Zara
Filed under: Ideas and Inspiration