2 days ago, I had asked if you’re blogging during holidays and what kind of topics you’re into. Raymond has came out with interesting ideas worth to be mentioned here :

1. Write review for other blogs

2. Write product review

3. Create festive season greetings – It could be e-card or custom made by yourself

4. Blog about your daily life’s experience related to your blog topic.

5. Q&A post

6. Post a video and give out your perspective

7. Pool – Such as how much do you spent during festive season

8. Post Youtube videos or songs as well as the lyrics related to current events

9. Share your experience such as shopping, visiting your relatives, your travel, during such events/festive/holiday

10. Share your own photos related to any events/festive/holiday or images from image sharing website such as Flickr

11. Post your favorite recipes that you want to share

12. Post on tourism attraction or spot that is worth to consider

13. Post out safety tips during festive seasons such as safety house tips and safety journey tips

14. Share you favorite TV series

15. Post cartoon clips related to such events/holidays/festive

16. Share on fashion tips

17. If you’re wordpress/blogger theme designer, you can come out with designs related to the events

18. Blog other’s design template related to the events

19. Create contests to encourage people to visit your blog during holidays/festive/events

20. Provide blogging tips during holidays/festive/events like what I’m doing now

Why not??

If you do, how would you choose the content? Is it something that’s relaxing, not too technical, tips, or maybe jokes? This question came to my mind when considering that there’ll be a lot of holidays in these coming weeks. For me, normally, when I’m on a holiday or vacation, I seldom open my notebook to read my RSS reader, but I do check my email in case if there’s any important issue.

So when a holiday ends, I’m struggling to read all the unread posts on my RSS reader, even on some of my favorite blogs. If you’re using Google reader, I’ll use the List View function to view the post titles only, so most of the time, I’m only reading the title that catches my attention.

If most people is like me, blog sphere would be slightly silent during this period, with less posts, less visitors and maybe less advertisement.

So if yes is the answer to the question above, are you going to leave your blog without any posts (again why not) during the holidays? If you’re a famous blogger, it shouldn’t be a problem to find guest bloggers to post any article based on any topic that you provide. Or you can set the post timestamp function, so your article will be automatically posted based on the timestamps, but of course you must have bunches of articles in advance.

How about if you’re a new blogger, or a part time blogger with not much ideas and articles and no one would like to be guest blogger, what would you do? Would you post anything as long as your day does not end without a post??

I have a few ideas that might sound familiar to some of you, but for now, I’d like to know what you think, or if you have something that is uncommon but beneficial.

I’ll be off tomorrow (public holiday in Malaysia), so during this time off, how about If I’m sharing with you how important applying Ergonomics principal in your working life. So when you’re back you can start doing this. I know blogging or working can become tiring if you stay in front of your computer for a long period of time.

Ops, I believe you have see it somewhere before, maybe circulated in your office’s newsletter or presented during your team building or seminar and etc. But you might have forgotten about it.Furthermore I know everyone is on festive moods, informative or too technical information might not digested well by you.

Here are some tips that you can use in order to create a productive ergonomic :

1. Adjust the height of your chair’s seat so that your feet can rest firmly on the floor with your arms and hands positioned comfortably on the keyboard.
2. A footrest can be used if your chair is too high for your feet to rest flat on the floor.
3. Sit all the way IN so that your lower back is supported by the backrest.
4. The keyboard should be positioned at elbow rest height. Pls refer to the picture below.
5. The Video Display Terminal (VDT) should be positioned so that the first couple of lines of text are at eye level.
6. Take a microbreak every hour to stretch.
7. Take time for vision care. Every 30 minutes to 1 hour, you should rest your eyes. You can palm your eyes by cupping your hands over your closed eyes for about 30 seconds or you can look at a distant object.
8. Get plenty of rest each night and reduce stress to feel more relaxed.
9. Eat right and take time to exercise. Pick an exercise that you enjoy doing.
10. It is important to report any symptoms early to in-house clinic and seek treatment to minimize and eliminate the risk of injury.

Happy reading!!