- What kind of things should we post about?
- How often should we post?
- How many pictures should we post?
- Where should we post our pictures to?
- How often should we post links to blog posts or pictures we've taken on Facebook?
- When we write, who are we writing to/for... ourselves... our friends and family following us... the general public?
- What is that balance of adequately sharing/documenting whats going on without seeming like we're trying to rub what we're doing in people's face?
- What style of writing should we use? Should we write from the perspective of a singular person, using pronouns like "I/me", or will we stick with the general "we/us" pronouns representing the duality of this blogs authorship even when a post may only be composed by one author?
- How concerned should we be with spelling and grammar?
- Should we do stream-of-consciousness style posts or should we always refine/edit?
- How short/long is a good post? Is there too short a post? Is there too long a post?
- Should we try to be funny, or serious, or something else?
- How personal should we get?
- How "professional" do we have to be since people from our professional lives/jobs are also reading this?
- How much should we sensor ourselves?
- Do we sensor our topics?
- Not that we would do this a lot, but can we swear?
- Is it worth possibly offending people we care/respect even for the sake of true honesty?
- Can we talk about/post pictures of beer/alcohol even if some of our friends and family disagree with our views on drinking?
- How do we balance and intermix the sabbatical/travel topics with all the other stuff we're interested in writing about?
- We like thinking and reflecting on lots of subjects, including the hard and sometimes touchy ones...
- Should we really share those with the general public?
- Is this the place to do that?
- Should we talk about our faith as Christians? Should we include things we're wrestling with? Should we write/share about stuff we think we've got figured out (statements of faith, share our stories, etc)?
- Should I write about random tech/software things that I'm hoping to explore during our time off?
- Should we write about the logistics we've gone through in taking a sabbatical with the hopes it might help others do something similar?
- Should we share about past traveling experiences?
- Should we post links/talk about random things we like... like food, music, activities, stuff on the web?
- Should we be concerned with our own and others privacy?
- Are there security concerns?
- How much work should I put into providing our readers easy ways to follow only the topics they care about? Which topic labels do I pick? Is it even worth doing at all?
- Should we try out video blogging?
- Should I update the look of the blog?
- Should I turn on comments on the blog?
- Should I provide ways of people to contact us?
- Should we "micro-blog" and post small updates with twitter or other social media sites?
As you can see there is a lot to figure out (or at least shows how much I'm over-thinking the whole thing), and we're doing so kinda on the fly at this point. So please be patient as we "find our voice". We may never fully get to where it is all organized/figured out, but hopefully we'll still have some valuable and/or interesting things to share from time to time, even if it means sifting through some posts that are of no interest to you, like this one may be. If you have any tips/advice or things that you'd like to start seeing, see less of, or see more of, please let us know. We welcome any suggestions.
Cheers
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