Network Solutions has made the commitment to gather your ideas! We are proud to announce:

IdeasArePower.com was created to provide a place for your input. But it’s so much more than that!

- Post your ideas – tell us what you think!

- Vote for the best ideas

- Talk – discuss the ideas & share

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- Business Solutions

- Education/Support

- MySolutionSpot.com

- Offers & Pricing

- Products – Domains, E-mails, Online Marketing, Online Store, Web Hosting, Web Sites, Website security,

- Storefront Accounts & Usability

Take a look at IdeasArePower.com & let us know what you think! We’re looking forward to your ideas!

Here are 10 ideas to alleviate & dispel those fears:

1. Write down ideas when they occur to you. Many people have a tablet dedicated to blogging ideas. I use Evernote (a free app) & jot the notes in there.

2. Use publishing software. There are many to choose from. I use LiveWriter (but it’s not available for Mac’s). Using a publishing program allows you to start articles & return to them later. I can also work offline.

3. Have many drafts prepared & in various stages of completion. This allows you to choose the topic that you want to address.

4. Start with a list – it’s not necessarily an outline, but it definitely helps get things going. If I can’t do that, then I write in a more prose style & go back and put it into bullets highlighting the main points.

5. Have set times where you sit down & know that you can be productive. Sometimes we set ourselves up for failure by trying to write when there will be lots of interruptions.

6. If you’re a new blogger maybe you’re worried about perfection. Be a recovering perfectionist! You’ll find out soon enough that sometimes you don’t have hours to write a post & it needs to get published as it is.

7. Establish a weekly routine – for example on most Fridays I post a list of links that I want to share with my readers. I’ve found that people love this! During the week, I toss links that I want to share into a post with a sentence or two about them. It eases the stress too..

8. Write less and remember that simple is fine. When I started blogging I thought that I had to write long incredibly profound posts. That’s not true at all.

9. Quality vs Quantity – Don’t feel like you have to post every day. If you post about 3 times per week or so that’s fine.

10. If a post feels like it’s getting long, break it into a series. It will give people something to look forward to!

What do you fear when you sit down to blog? What are your best tips for overcoming that fear?

Just to give you an illustration of some ideas that were exchanged at these events: In Miami one entrepreneur pitched his idea to Guy Kawasaki by recording his pitch on an iPod Nano and giving it to Guy Kawasaki at the Miami event. I heard later that his start-up/business idea was really very good.

In Charlotte, student and designer Justin Ruckman, handed out his business cards and we were all impressed. Guy even had Justin design new cards for him and then blogged about Justin on “How to Change the World” (http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/05/the-art-of-the.html).

Justin’s website is http://jruckman.com/ and his new blog is http://blog.jruckman.com. Here is a picture of Justin’s cards that he handed out in Charlotte.

The spreading of ideas like this helped us achieve our objective of connecting people!