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How One Blogger Crams A Whole Lot In His Day

by Anne Wayman on June 12th, 2008

Darren Rowse, the prolific blogger at problogger shares how he gets more done than I ever intend to in a post called: How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive

Actually, when I really look at his list, I see some similarities in my own productivity. It’s not at all unusual for me to write three or four thousand words on a book, another thousand or so on a second book, and do three or four blog postings of maybe 400 words each. I also take phone calls, handle email… not as much as he does, but in the hunrdeds including the spam I delete. With luck, I’ll moderate about 80 comments give or take tonight - far more than usual, but fun.

And I now live by myself (well, with MzTiz the kitty) so I don’t have the same sort of family obligations he does. But I do have house work, friends, etc., etc. I don’t do nearly the social media things he does… I know how to twitter and I don’t. Although I’ll probably teach a teleclass in the next month or so, it isn’t on my plate right this moment.

I think Darren is right about batching. I think I’ll work at doing more of it, particularly around the blogging. While creating a blog entry doesn’t take a ton of time, I can see it would be great to get a bunch of them out of the way.

I don’t think I want to be as busy as Darren, but that doesn’t mean I can’t pick up tips from him.

So, do you batch your work? Does it seem like a good idea? How busy do you want to be?

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