After the now infamous wish-list and cry for help video, lots of lovely people have been offering to write posts for Give A Brick. The idea to include lots of different voices was first introduced a couple of months back and despite that, it’s only now that I’ve gotten round to putting some ramblings about the process down into full sentences 
First things first: What to write about
The best way to know what sort of things you could write about is to have a look around the site. We like to make people smile and as such, try to offer a mixture of light-hearted, thought-provoking, challenging and sometimes, tear-inducing posts. We also use this space to share ideas for how you can help develop Give A Brick so if you’ve got some fresh ideas, that’s always a great place to start
We have some very broad categories that were introduced a little while ago. These are in place to help me plan the week better but they might also be a helpful starting point for you as you think about what to write.
Here’s our categories and a brief description of each:
Monday Movers
Whether this be motivating you to take action or moving you to tears with parenting talking, Monday will bring you a healthy dose of motivation. This very post is an example of a Monday Mover. The aim of it is to move you to take action and write for us
Charity Tuesday
Every Tuesday is Charity Tuesday on Twitter. Given how much Give A Brick loves to tweet, Tuesday seems the natural day to write charity specific posts.
Wednesday Warmer
When I was teaching full time, we referred to Wednesday as hump day. Once you got past the mental hump of a Wednesday, the weekend was in sight and all seemed better with the world.
Wednesdays at Give A Brick will bring something to make you smile and warm your heart. All these categories are being purposefully kept vague enough to allow for freedom. Warming Wednesday is no exception. It might be a short video or a fun story. We’ll work out the details as we go
Thoughtful Thursday
As the name suggests, we’ll be saving our thought provoking posts for a Thursday.
Friday Friends
Originally I had thought to make this Follow Friday to link up with the weekly Twitter event. However, this would seem rather limiting. What about our lovely fans on Facebook? Surely they deserve some love too?
So Fridays will be about celebrating our friends. It might be introducing a star fund raiser or a brilliant blog post one of our friends has shared with us.
Give A Brick asks everyone to Give A Brick and tell their friends so you can understand how greatly we value friendship. Fridays will celebrate that.
Saturday Smoothy
Every Saturday we’ll aim to bring you a concise round up of the week’s posts. There is a good chance we’ll include some of the fun stuff we’ve enjoyed elsewhere too. I love lazy Saturdays and the longer reading time involved in our Saturday posts reflects this. The great news for you is that whilst you can’t really write the Saturday Smoothy, the community post you write on any other day of the week will crop up again here with you name and a link to your blog. Always good to know
Sunday Surprise
And finally, Sunday will give you the opportunity to surprise. It might be something that fails to fit in any other category or just something that caught us unawares. Who knows? It’s a surprise This is the least used category, mainly because the site seems to get a little less traffic on a Sunday so we prefer to try and make best use of community posts by publishing them on a busier day.
The best tip I can give you when choosing what to write is to think about the things you enjoy doing or experiencing and writing about that wouldn’t otherwise fit on your own blog. Give A Brick is a great place to be heard by a wonderful community and is proving to be a wonderful means of expression for folk when their burning thoughts don’t fit elsewhere
How to get your post published
Whilst you can email us your finished piece, there is a better way When we get our new site we’ll ensure it’s a lot more prominent but in the navigation bar at the top of the site there is a label which reads ‘Join and/or Login’ Click that followed by the large ‘login’ button and you’ll be taken to the default login screen. If you need to register, please click on ‘Register’, otherwise, log in as normal.
Everyone who registers is automatically given the role entitled ‘contributor’ which allows you to write a new post and then submit it for review. If you’re not familiar with Word Press, please get in touch and we can talk about how to get you some help. However, for seasoned bloggers, this will be like second nature
If you’d like to include a picture, feel free to add that as you would normally do at your place. And similarly, if you’re a whizz with SEO, feel free to include that information as well
One last point about all this:
The start of every community post will include information about you, your website and how readers might engage with you. It would make my life an awful lot simpler if you could tell me what I should say about you The easy way to do this is to log in to the site and when the dashbard loads, click on Your Profile from the list of the left. The bit that will be particularly helpful for me is the big white box labelled ‘Biographical Info’. I’m hoping to find a plugin or some code that will allow this information to be displayed as a matter of course. In the meantime however, I can use the information you enter here to include a bio box manually.
And we’re done
That was fairly straight forward (or at least it was from where I was standing) but if you get stuck, please, please, please don’t give up. Get in touch and tell me what you need.
Thank you to everyone who has offered to write for us. I look forward to reading what you, the community, have 
Typo: (or at least it was from wear I was standing)
Might want to fix that
But the post itself was fairly infomative. Still don’t know what I’m going to write, but I may beg off until after the summer lol
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Thanks for the spot. I guess that’s what happens when you write and publish when you really should be sleeping
And fairly informative? lol What didn’t I tell you that you need to know? Seriously though, thanks for the heads up. Doing everything at double speed these past few days but hope to get back to normal tomorrow. I know, I know, what’s normal?!
Have a great day and thank you for your video clips. Haven’t even got round to opening the file yet but will get onto it asap.
Indeedy, I keep expecting there to be massive glaringly obvious ones in my posts but apparently I’ve escaped that (or no one tells me
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You told me where things could slot in and what’s already there, but not what direction you want to go in. What you said was straight forward, but it still leaves a lot open to interpretation (which is actually pretty daunting lol). As for normal… Well for the next month and a half I’ll be working semi-constantly, then I’ll be out of the country. There won’t be a normal until September
Video clips – that one was just to see if the conversion works (blooper) I have a whole host of other bloopers and the main one still to send you, but no point if its not working. Also wanted to see if it can convert before making that other one Dr Egg asked for.
.-= Heather´s last blog ..The Mayans: Jax’s Role =-.
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