A Guide to My Blog Posts

Posted by Gabe on December 11, 2009 under Facebook, Kids are Heroes, Social Media, Twitter | Be the First to Comment

I have been working on something that I’m pretty excited about.  I have a social media seminar coming up next week that I have been planning for a while. I figured I’d better be organized so I started with an agenda.  I thought that it might be cool if I provided an electronic document that linked the subjects to corresponding posts that I have written.  I’ve been writing about Twitter for less than a year so one would think that would be rather simple.  Maybe it’s the WordPress theme I am using, but it wasn’t too easy to pinpoint exact posts from a while ago, let alone browse through them.

I ended up creating a new page that I call the guide to my social media posts.  (You can also access it at the top of the page by clicking “directory” on the menu.)  This was a pain to create, but I think that it may be very helpful to people.  It lists the topic, title and excerpt in the order that I prescribed.

Update 12/12/09:  I was so happy with this method of organization that I went ahead and classified many of my other posts the same way. Now when you click on “Directory” you get a listing of all the Kids Are Heroes related posts, and then can branch off to the Twitter and Facebook related ones.  For now that should suffice, since these are the main topics I focus on.

Ideally there is a Wordpress plug-in to do this, and my friend and guru @DannyBrown suggested I try a plug-in called “In-Series“.  This appears that it may be able to accomplish what I am doing, but I liked what I had set up and I know I have ultimate control over how it looks, the order and sections each post belongs in, and ultimately which posts make the directory.  I also didn’t see a working example anywhere which would have been nice.  Maybe someone knows of one?

Anyway I think this is an excellent way of providing readers a quick way of perusing all of our material, allowing them to easily choose what interests them. What do you all think?