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Your final planning step before beginning serious work on your blogs is to pull together a quick editorial plan. Now that you have your topic and a general focus stated in your mission statement, it is time to put some concrete thoughts on paper about what specifically you’ll cover.
You will write a four- to five-sentence introduction expanding from the mission statement to detail the types of information readers can expect to find on the site. This should include research into upcoming events you might attend, people you might profile and useful information that will be offered.
Next, you will drill deeper by describing how that content will be distributed among the following six types of posts. Write two to three sentences for each post type.
- Reported posts – original features or news stories that cover developments in your topic area. Must include interview/s and photos.
- Reoccurring feature – a cleverly formatted post that can be updated weekly or biweekly.
- Aggregation roundups – let your readers know what else is being written about your topic by other outlets.
- Multimedia — use of video, photos, maps, graphs and audio.
- Q&A – one-on-one interviews with interesting people.
- News you can use – informational posts that provide