Here are some tools I use for blogging.

My main source of information is Bloglines.com. Bloglines is a feeder of blog you subscribe to. Instead of having an exhaustive list to check daily, bloglines is a sort of portal. You can set up folders and read the news you want. I set up mine with the obvious, Real Estate, Coaching, Cars, technology and a few others things like Fun Stuff.

I also have a gmail account and set up Google Alerts. I have three of them, obviously for Coaching, Real estate and Long Beach. Oh, and Alfa Romeo and Maserati. that’s the fun part for me.

With this two essentials, you have a wealth of information to digest from. One thing to remember with bloglines is to trim the info intake. Don’t worry about letting go of blogs that don’t do it after a while. There are always more out there.

Since I am on a Mac, I use VoodooPad. VoodooPad is a notepad on steroids. It has links. So you can create tiitle and they link to another page. I set up a few links on the main page, Business & Life Coaching, Real Estate, Cars, Local News, etc. each linking to their respective pages.

All of these tools help you rationalize your information and keep them in check. There are more tools out there but I feel these help me just fine.

Of course, I use these tools for Coaching. I can create clients folders with links to pages. It’s like having a mini-website or an Intranet as it was called back then.