This blog post goes out to all you fellow bloggers who currently are crowding cafés and park benches, trying to catch some sunlight while untying the mental knot of with what to fill your next blog post. While the post’s topic remains for you to figure out, here’s a tip on how to make your post more attractive, dynamic and, hell, even interactive!
YouTube Your Post!
There are not many untouched souls left today who hasn’t hear of YouTube. The best and perhaps only good example of video hosting, containing millions of video about anything and everything you can imagine. YouTube is a great source of videos to implement into your blogposts. It’s very easy since for every video that is uploaded on YouTube is accompanied by a string of html-data to simply copy/paste into your code-view while writting your posts.
This is not the most uncoventional blog tip but a very useful nonetheless. The inserted video will give your readers a complete picture about the post’s topic.
Post through Flickr
Using pictures to spice up the blog post is also a popular way. But rather than burdening your server’s bandwidth with uploaded images there are several web-based image galleries through which you can write blog posts with selected images and remotely publishing them directly on your blog. By getting an account you can gather images and easily set your blog settings this can be done in 5 minutes.
Video and image hosting is truly god-sent gifts to us bloggers and should be comtemplated more often. I have successfully untied my mental knot and actually dedicated a whole blog post in loving memory of YouTube and Flickr, the big guys in video and image hosting. Now it’s your turn 