What's Stuck in Your Draft Folder?

I'm not even going to ask if it's happened to you. If you have a blog, it has. You work on a big idea and a great blog post, and while it's stuck in the drafts folder, someone else posts on the same topic. Man, I hate when that happens. It makes it look like the other guy thought of it first and I'm just echoing. So let's do something about it.

Would it help to have a little extra motivation? A challenge, perhaps? Here's the plan:

1. Pick the two best topics spending too much time in your draft folder and give us the quick version in a new post.

2. Tweet your post and tag it with #stuckindraft so we can find it and encourage you.

3. Commit to finish that post! within a week.

4. When you finish the completed version, update your StuckInDraft post to link to the completed posts.

5. Tweet it again to let us know you've finished.

How easy is that? Sure, you run the risk of tipping off the world to your big idea when you post the short version, but how many times has someone scooped you while you kept it quiet? If you're thinking about it, there's a big chance that someone else is, too, so you might as well be able to take credit for the early post.

Now, you know where he is. Go! Confront the problem! Fight! Win! And call me when you get back, darling. I enjoy our visits.
—"Edna Mode," The Incredibles

Let's get those drafts unstuck!

Oh, yeah, my list.

• Questions to ask before shopping for listening tools and services
  I've heard from social media analysis vendors that clients are issuing RFPs before knowing enough to ask the right questions. This is a list of questions that clients should ask themselves to discover their own requirements.

• Opportunities in the intersections of analytics
  What value is hiding in the overlaps between social media analysis, web analytics, text analytics, business intelligence, customer relationship management...? What are the important connections in business processes and at a systems level?

Yup, I'm working on the easy posts that should write themselves. :-) What are you going to finish?

No, actually, this post didn't spend much time in the draft folder. Why do you ask?