243: Tools and Techniques to Blog Effectively on the Road - a podcast by Darren Rowse: Blogger, Speaker, Author and Online Entrepreneur

Tools and Techniques for Blogging While Travelling
Today I tackle a question from a listener about blogging on the road. Carmen Fellows asked about technicalities such as how to get content online and ways to access your blog.How can you balance blogging while traveling for work or vacation? It depends on the situation, and sometimes it's a juggling act.  

While you're away, here are seven approaches to try when it comes to blogging:

Take a complete break, and give your readers a break tooWork harder, and schedule as much as you can before you go
Highlight previous content, or feature a “Best of” seriesSchedule one of more guest bloggers
Blog on the roadUse posts that are easy to create (polls, embeddable content, link posts, etc.)
Do a combination of the aboveIf you plan on blogging on the road, think about where you can find internet access, and whether you want to bring your computer equipment or leave it behind. There are pros and cons to bringing and using devices such as a smartphone, iPad and laptop.

How much do you really need to do with your blog? Working while you're away can have an impact on what you're there to do, whether it’s to have fun with your family or speak at a conference.

Allow yourself to be present. It's okay (and important) to have time off from your blog.
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Compress to smaller transcript viewHi there and welcome to Episode 243 of the ProBlogger podcast. My name is Darren Rowse and I’m the blogger behind problogger.com – a blog, podcast, event, job board, and a series of ebooks all designed to help you as a blogger to start a great blog, to grow that blog in terms of the content on it but also your audience, and the engagement you have with that audience, and then to build profit around your blog as well. You can learn more about what we do over at problogger.com.

Particularly, check out our two courses once you’re there, look for the courses tab up in the navigation and there you will find out two courses, our How to Start a Blog course which is completely free. It will walk you through the steps to getting your blog up and running. And our brand new course, 31 Days to Build a Better Blog which is all about giving you a 31 different activities that you can do to improve your blogging. Head to problogger.com, look for the courses tab and you will find them.In today’s episode, I wanna tackle a question that came in this week from one of our listeners. The listener was Carmen Fellows, thanks for asking the question, Carmen. It’s all about blogging while you’re on the road. I wanna talk to you about how I approach blogging whilst I’m away, whether it’d be for vacation or for work. Carmen particularly wanted me to talk about the technicalities of doing it, how do you actually get your content up online, whether you do it on mobile or iPad or some other way. Also, I wanna talk a little bit about balancing blogging with whatever else you’re doing in your travels, whether that’d be vacation with family and friends or work.

You can find today’s show notes at problogger.com/podcast/243. As I said, today’s show was inspired by Carmen Fellows who wrote in with this question via our Facebook group. She says, “Hi Darren, if you haven’t addressed this already, can you review different ways to access your blog while travelling to keep it up? For example, if I can’t get on my computer, do you find that updating via your mobile is suggested or is there a better way? I can be on the road for two to three weeks at a time and find it difficult to...

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