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April 13, 2009

Madison, Medicine, and Efficiency: One Blog on Multiple Topics, or Multiple Blogs on Single Topics?

I was inspired to make some updates on the blog after watching Michael Hyatt's presentation about blogging.


 

He is the CEO of one of the major publishing companies , and has effectively been blogging since the late 90s.

What I did - updated some of the old posts , including embedding videos directly , clarifying the titles & adding tags to the older posts .  Posterous did not allow tags early on.  I also added google analytics , we'll see if that helps any of the blog's googlejuice (as explained in the book What Would Google Do?) .

I have been thinking about splitting off into 3 separate blogs, for the 3 main topics that I blog about: Madison , Medicine , and Efficiency .  Michael Hyatt & Jay Parkinson keep all of their posts together, even if there is not exactly one common theme, but many themes.  Other successful bloggers such as Joshua Schwimmer (from KidneyNotes , EfficientMD , TechMedicine ) successfully run multiple blogs.

The advantage of having a single blog is the ease in continuing to post, and the simplicity in posting.  The advantage of multiple blogs would be more focused posts, with a unified theme and more relevance to the individual reader.  Google could find my posts easier, and deem me relevant if I ran multiple focused blogs.

Thoughts?

Filed under  //   blog   efficiency   google   gtd   jay parkinson   Joshua Schwimmer   Madison   Medicine   Michael Hyatt   wwgd  

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July 21, 2008

Expert Filters

Lately I've been so busy at work I have not been able to keep up with all of my RSS feeds.
 
An interesting solution is to have others screen out the important, interesting information.  In other words, to act as a filter.
 
Three examples are:
1.  Exploring random samples of interesting flickr photos.
       - I find that whenever I have low energy, or need a creative kick, quickly viewing 7 or so.
 
2.  Reading RSS feeds from prominent bloggers about interesting posts of the day.
       - For example, CEO of publishing Michael Hyatt's google reader feed.
 
3.  See what's popular out on the web, right now.
       - I created this last year on yourminis to keep me up to date.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Filed under  //   efficiency   filter   gtd   inspiration   Michael Hyatt   web 2.0  

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July 16, 2008

My Daily Reading Habits

 
Here are my daily reading habits:
 
1.  Wake up to iphone alarm, read my daily horoscope on iGoogle.
 
Today's example:
 
"You may be tempted to keep an important bit of information to yourself today, but it will only stir up insecurities in those around you. It's better to be straightforward and just tell it like it is. Anything that is currently withheld -- by you or by anyone else -- will come out into the open anyhow and can create a lot more trouble when it does. Honesty is really the best policy."
 
I applied this when I presented my patient from earlier this month to my colleagues, the patient with a large hemorrhagic pericardial effusion. 
 
 
2.  Listen to Medical Podcasts on the way to & from work.
 
Today's example:  Advances in Cardiovascular Medicine series, one hour on lipid/cholesterol management.
 
 
3.  Read my favorite bloggers on Google Reader RSS feeds.
 
Today's Example: Jay, Joshua, Michael, Gina
 
 
4.  Doing some research on a case report.
 
 
5.  Usually prior to falling asleep in bed, reading about one chapter in a book about personal growth.
 
Today's Example:  Depak Chopra's book, The Third Jesus.

Filed under  //   Chopra   google   iphone   medical   Michael Hyatt   recommended   web 2.0  

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