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Blogging and the Holidays
December 8th, 2010 | 
Author: By Liz, Editor, a belle, a bean & a chicago dog (@bellebeandog)
I consider March 2010 to be the beginning of my (public) blog career. Like many people, I began blogging just for family and friends in order to keep them informed on our lives, and later ventured into the public blogging arena.
After publicly blogging for about 3 months, I had reached my first bloggy roadblock; Memorial Day was coming and I needed to decide whether or not to publish a post that day.
Deciding whether or not to post on a holiday is a common dilemma among the bloggy set. Do we choose to take the day off from posting because we know most people are going to be away from their computers, spending time with friends and family? Do we go ahead and post, but make it easy on ourselves by putting up a happy, festive post that honors that particular holiday? Or do we post as usual even though we know we aren’t going to get the typical traffic that day?
At least in the cases of Memorial Day, July 4th and Labor Day each holiday lasts just 1 day. No matter what you decide, there isn’t much to be lost or gained in only 24 hours. But what about for the “bigger” holidays? How do you feel about not publishing a new post for several days in a row?
Challenge #1: Thanksgiving. It’s arguably a 4 day long holiday, with many people either traveling out of town, spending time with family, getting a jump start on their Christmas decorating or braving the crowds to score those amazing Black Friday deals. Personally, I didn’t feel comfortable not posting something new on my blog 4 days in a row. I chose to have a post carryover from Thanksgiving through Saturday, and then posted something new on Sunday. Sunday is always a standard, meme-related post for me, so that was an easy post to complete.
Challenge #2: Christmas and New Year’s. Not only is December the biggest holiday time of the year, the length of its holiday celebrations is unparalleled. Add to that kids being off school for 2 roughly weeks and any paid vacation time many people take from work and the blogosphere is looking pretty empty.
While I don’t plan on regular postings during that time, I’m still not sure what approach I will take.
Have you thought about how to handle blog posting during Christmas and New Year’s? Will you post as usual, and write the same types of posts as the rest of the year? Will you try to utilize that slower time to write some posts for future publication? Weigh in with your thoughts at our forum!
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I am fairly new to blogging and glad to have found this post since I have faced the same dilemma. I am actually coming up on a week where I will have have access to a computer, so I guess I won’t be blogging then…but it feels so wrong. My boyfriend does not understand how you feel like you are leaving something unfinished.
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I don’t know what I’m going to do. But thanks for writing this so I can begin thinking about it!
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I’ve fizzled off a little this month… just too much other stuff to do. I see less traffic too, so I guess I’m not the only one.
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I’ve stressed myself out too much over posting, so I’m just going to take it easy.I will more than likely post everyday that I can and try to schedule the posts for the days that I will be out of town. I will also do something for Christmas day and New Years (Todd has to work on New Years, so it will Lboy, me and the computer! lol)
I have no idea what I’m going to do! Sigh. I’ve been posting like crazy lately, and I have a feeling that as the month goes on, I’ll fizzle out.
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This has been something I’ve been thinking about for a couple of days. I’ve been blogging since July and I haven’t posted on any of the holidays. I only posted once during the Thanksgiving week but I’m seriously considering limiting the number of posts I do between Christmas and New Years. The posts that I do will be holiday themed to make it a little easier. I guess I will take the advice mentioned and load up on posts for 2011 since that was a really good idea!
WE travel a lot over the holidays, so I’m soliciting a couple of guest posts from friends, but will no doubt fill in a couple of times too, because I just need to write, you know?
I hadn’t thought about it till now when I read this! It’s a really good question too! I think I’ll just add a post or two as normal and maybe have one or two ready for later since I’ll be off the week between Christmas & New Years.
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I was just thinking about this and for all the reasons you listed, I will most likely be taking a bloggy vacation for those two weeks as well. I’m thinking of perhaps publishing older posts just in case someone missed them the first time around.
Not sure though.
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I had thought about taking a mini-break, however… my divorce will be final a few days before Christmas and Peanut will be visiting his dad from the 28th to New Year’s Day. I have a feeling I’ll have a lot of emotions to blog about.
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