A mind map of over 100 awesome blog post ideas

Mar 19th, 2010 | By | Category: Resources

blog-ideas-300pxMillions of new blogs are created worldwide every year, but many are abandoned because their authors run out of things to write about. To combat writer’s block, a number of enterprising thinkers have assembled large lists of ideas that bloggers can use as inspiration to generate topics for posts.

There’s only one problem: Without exception, they are “kitchen sink” lists – long lists of unorganized ideas – a brain dump by the author of blog post topics and types that they have used or have admired online.

So I decided to improve upon these linear lists. I gathered some of the best blog post ideas from around the web, and organized over 100 of them in a mind map format. This enabled me to categorize them in some meaningful ways, so they are more useful to me when the well runs dry and I need some inspiration. I thought this visual list would be useful to many of you, too!

To view this valuable list as a PDF file, please click here or on the image above right.

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  1. Todd March 19th, 2010 2:30 pm :

    Thanks for posting this, VERY useful!

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  3. Viktor Vojtko March 20th, 2010 7:26 am :

    Excellent and useful, thank you!

  4. Anju Thomas March 20th, 2010 10:38 am :

    Wowww..That was a simply awsome mindmap..really useful…Thanks for sharing..I will forward the link to all those who are serious about blogging..Keep going..Cheers!!!!

  5. Bethany L. March 20th, 2010 11:05 am :

    Very Cool! Thanks for posting!

  6. Julie Lim March 20th, 2010 11:12 am :

    Very useful and concise! Thanks!

  7. Jennifer March 20th, 2010 11:48 am :

    Thank you for sharing. The wheels are turning already.

  8. Gill March 20th, 2010 1:00 pm :

    This is great. Really well presented and perfect for a new blog project and new blogger I am going to be working with. I hadn’t seen your blog before and shall now be dropping by regularly. Many thanks.

  9. Steve Yu March 21st, 2010 5:31 am :

    Thanks for the hard work to compile the blog post ideas and make them into a mind map. Simply impressive!

  10. Alex March 22nd, 2010 4:40 am :

    Great post, and very useful for me in reviewing my blogs. Any chance of presenting this as a map file – preferably (in my case) MindManager?

  11. Vrinda March 22nd, 2010 9:53 am :

    Thank you for this hugely useful list! Just a quick glance through gave me some good ideas, and that’s without reading it properly. Thanks for sharing!!

  12. Rob Berman March 22nd, 2010 2:46 pm :

    Cool way to graphically portray the ideas. Putting the map into my post ideas folder. I am also going to tweet it.

    Rob

  13. Tony Faustino March 22nd, 2010 10:28 pm :

    Chuck: I discovered your blog post from a Twitter RT by @Brainzooming. Thank you for this comprehensive visual of a mindmap! Because of your post, I have a much better understanding of the benefits of mindmapping (and it’s because you applied the mindmap to a subject I can closely relate to). You’ve helped me discover a new analytical / idea-generating tool and 100 additional blog posts!

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  15. Alfred Reinold Baudisch March 29th, 2010 11:50 am :

    Very useful, thanks!
    My blog has an average of 200 visits/day, but I barely update it, because I always wait to the BIG topic and coverage, but with this map I can now wait useful content without waiting until the “big idea for a new post” pops up.

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  17. iMindMap September 6th, 2010 11:02 am :

    Hi Chuck,

    Mate you are a real star putting this together. We are both fortunate that we have the tools to help us come up with ideas (as well as your Creativity Hacks e book which I highly recommend) but even so this is a huge boost to generating blog ideas.

    So thanks for this (and no letting on where my ideas come from when you are next at my blog LOL)

    Regards

    Michael

  18. peter jones July 31st, 2011 11:28 am :

    Hi Chuck,
    Great list and presentation form – something I and (as per above) others can actually use.
    Looking at the categories I'd love to see a version of this organized using Hodges' model – http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/
    - oh for more time!
    I'm working on an extended essay that considers software solutions and the types of mind-mapping, diagram solutions available. A key question is the underlying structure – some are free-form others with an underlying conceptual framework which is my focus: http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/
    Thanks again.
    Peter

  19. Wedding Photographer October 4th, 2011 11:59 am :

    Cool tool. Thanks for sharing… appreciated!

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