Academic blogging is a great way of sharing your work in public, articulating your ideas, and start building a reputation.¹ And, blogging can be a byproduct of the work you’re doing anyway, rather than an additional task that adds to your workload.

The secret to low-cost academic blogging is to make blogging a natural byproduct of all the things that academics already do.

Matt Might. 6 Tips for Low-cost Academic Blogging.

Here are some simple ideas for writing you already do that could become blog posts:

• Lecture notes or presentations.
• Email responses that are more broadly useful to your professional community.
• Having to answer the same question over and over again.
• An annotated bibliography for your research.
• Share something you learned.
• Resources that others might appreciate.

It helps to remember that academic blogging is meant to be rough and informal; you’re not writing for peer review. Be yourself and experiment with finding your voice.

1. Maslen, G. (2011). Academics and universities should embrace blogging as a vital tool of academic communication and impact. (2011, June 20). Impact of Social Sciences. ↩︎