goals_on_dw | Recurring Posts (Reply)

Many people use recurring posts in their blogs to track things, boost activity, network, or promote stuff they care about. If you have a blog-related goal like "Community Thursday" or "Post at least once a week," or you like to track your resolutions in your blog (such as "words written this month," then you can probably meet that with some sort of recurring post. You may wish to write yours on a desktop calendar or program them into an app so that you remember to do them.

Communities with Recurring Posts

Some communities activate on specific days. You can use these for your own blog or participate in the community posts.

3_good_things_a_day makes a daily gather post where you can comment with your own three things.

50books_poc is a place to share books you've read by authors of color, and see which of those other people are reading.

awesomeers makes a daily "Just One Thing" gather post to celebrate what you've accomplished.

caturday features pictures and other posts about cats on Saturday or other days.

fandom_checkin makes a daily poll where you can answer how you're doing.

followfriday makes a gather post each week. People comment with recommendations for communities, individual blogs, and occasionally other resources. There is typically a thematic list of active communities to explore.

get_your_groove_on_friday celebrates relaxing music that makes you think of Fridays.

thefridayfive posts a list of questions for people to copy and answer.

Plenty of other communities have a daily, weekly, or monthly gather post encouraging people to participate, but they are harder to find with a search.

allbingo,

birdfeeding, and

crowdfunding are a few with monthly gather posts.

Daily Blog Post Themes -- The Golden Spoons

Dreamwidth Events

This platform hosts some events that bring a lot of extra activity during the timeframe. Some bloggers like to set a goal of participating in these events, such as posting every day during them.

Fandom Snowflake (January 1-31)

On the odd-numbered days of January,

snowflake_challenge posts an activity for people to do. You can do all of them, or pick and choose just the ones you want. In any case, when you participate, you tend to benefit from the extra traffic in the event, as other participants often look up each other's blogs. So anything you post then will probably get more attention. This may be useful if you have a goal like "grow my audience."

See "How to Hack the Snowflake Challenge" for ideas on planning ahead to make a successful event.

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth (April 25-May15)

This event celebrates Dreamwidth with various activities, such as posting ever day. Here are some materials to help inspire more blog activity.

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Blogging Questionnaire (2023)

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth 2024 Questionnaire

Questions and Questionnaires for Three Weeks for Dreamwidth (multifandom, single fandom, nonfandom)

Ideas for Recurring Posts

Many people have contributed to the rich archive of possibilities that you could use to create recurring posts in your own blog. Borrow any of these or draw inspiration to create new ones.

Monday
Meatless Monday
Mindful Monday
Moanday
Monday Meme
Monday Moments
Moon Monday
Music Monday
Our Weekend
Plans for the Week
Weekly Goals

Tuesday
Cartoon Tuesday
How to Tuesday
Review Tuesday
Studio Tuesday
Tuesday in the News
Tuesday Takeaways
Tuesday Ten
Tuesday Trends
Tuestorial
Two for Tuesday

Wednesday
One Word Wednesday
Reading Wednesday
Relaxing Wednesday
Starwatch Wednesday
WIP Wednesday
Wordplay Wednesday
Wednesday Wishes
Wednesday Word Count
Wellness Wednesday
Wins Day

Thursday
Community Thursdays (see the Community Thursdays feed)
Purrsday
Thankful Thursday
Thorsday
Three on Thursday
Thursday Thoughts
Thursday Thrifts

Friday
Fannish Friday
Fantasy Friday
Feature Friday
Five on Friday
Follow Friday (see the Follow Friday feed and the community