If you’re a blogger, you probably know how time-consuming managing a blog can be. You need tech tools for blogging because between editing your pictures just right, resizing them for Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram—and making sure your posts are typo-free—one can become frazzled very quickly.
Blogging bosses cannot afford to be stressed out. We must maintain an air of effortlessness at all costs.
So, here are a few of my favorite tech tools that take care of the annoying parts of the blogging business so you can keep focused on the big picture.
Fiverr
Delegate, delegate or delete; that’s my mantra. If something will take up more time than I have available, I find a capable person to handle it or I delete the idea.
Find a programmer to do those annoying CSS edits to get your blog looking just right, or hire the perfect graphic designer to breathe new life into your blog images. Fiverr has it all, and for $5 a pop, you can too. No wahala!
Tomorrow App
How many times have you been stumped trying to figure out where you wrote your to-do list? Okay, maybe you’re organized and your lists are always within reach, but, there’s nothing like being able to see all your to-do’s, personal and professional, in one place and never run out of paper!
Tomorrow App is a simple app without distractions. Just put in a to-do item and tap to cross the item off the list when it’s completed. If you don’t get to it, it automatically transfers everything over to the next day. I’m a staunch ‘paper and pen’ girl, but this Tomorrow App on my phone is a lifesaver!
PicMonkey
I take most of the pictures for my blog, ThisAfropolitanLife. Photography is on my list of creative pursuits. As much as I try to make sure I take pictures good enough to post without edits, sometimes I fail and a little touching up is necessary.
PicMonkey is a quick and effective online tool. No need to download anything, just upload and edit away. For blog graphics and more involved designs, I use Canva.
Canva
Between Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram and all the other social media platforms, one can be tasked with a nightmare of a job; adjusting one single photo into dozens of different sizes, just to make sure they display properly.
Canva makes this easy and eliminates the stress. They have pretty pre-designed templates in all social media sizes you need. It’s a one-stop-shop to make all your blog graphics come to life.
Grammarly
There’s nothing more off-putting than an errant typo or grammatical error on a blog post. Don’t loose readers, tighten up your prose with Grammarly; a free tool that catches typos and grammatical errors.
It’s like having your own personal editor or English professor within reach. Just upload your document or post and watch Grammarly work its magic.
Hi Clarissa. Many thanks for sharing your favorite tech tools with us.
I’m also using PicMonkey and Canva and would be glad to try Fiverr and Tomorrow App. I agree with you, plagiarism checking software is a must using tool. I though it might be interesting for you to check out this plagiarism detector , I use it daily for bloging and content writing.
Thank you Clarissa for bringing this to light. I must say that whoever came up with the idea of Canva and Grammarly we were at the back of his mind 🙂 I have to try the Fiverr and Tommorrow App, and when editing my photos I prefer Be funky to Pic Monkey, because of it’s ease of use.