Preparing the DrM-Blog to be Published--categories, titles, and more

I have been organizing this blog for publishing today and have been working with categories for related posts.  While the labels help, I am already finding that I will be adjusting the categories a bit before the blog is ready to be published as a book.

An old friend, Jack Canfield, is the co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series of books.  I like the title of his books and the way he formats them.  This blog has covered lots of territory (categories) since it began last August.  I'll have to see what kind of titles evolve as I edit the material.

More work tomorrow.  I look forward to seeing what develops.

Editing this Blog into a Book

I've begun to organize the blog posts into categories for publishing in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format for eventual publishing in book form.  My goal is to have a pre-publishing draft ready by Monday, March 29th.

Categories are based on the tags I have added to each entry.  I have begun the process and have much more to do.

Blogging--Purpose of this Blog

Someone spoke about my blog this morning and I wanted to think again about its purpose.  One of my goals is to begin publishing books and the discipline of writing a daily blog was intended to be a "baby step" toward publishing--the blog and beyond.

I mention the purpose of this blog in both my first post and in the header that appears with every post (see below).
(Click on the image to see it completely and bigger.  It is the same as the comment appearing at the top of this page.)

 The content of my blog posts is eclectic, reflecting my thoughts, observations, or reflections of the moment.  Overall the focus is on helping readers navigate the world with a few more insights and resources.  I maintain current links in the posts so that people can get back to source information.

It is a business and a personal post in that many of the topics are business related and all are influenced by my personal reflection, experience, and sense of values.  This is post number 224 and I expect to turn the posts into a book soon.  The question is, should I wait for a year of posts or do it earlier?  I also need a way to organize the posts by themes and to make sure that the links remain alive in the electronic version of the book I expect to publish.