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Monday, January 11, 2010

Bloggiesta! Wrap Up Post and Reflection

Natasha at Maw Books:

Bloggiesta here at What Book is That? has come to a close, and I am beyond pleased with all that I accomplished this weekend. I will definitely participate in the next round of Bloggiesta- it's not only a great way to be productive and work on the blog, but the networking, communication, and conversation with other bloggers was out of this world. If you opted not to participate this time around or didn't find out about it in time, I definitely advise doing the next Bloggiesta- consider it a favor to yourself.

I also did some thinking about the organization of some of my posts and decided to make a couple of changes:
-I'm going to switch from a Week in Review post back to an In My Mailbox post on Sunday (when interesting stuff worth posting about comes in, anyway) and a Monthly Wrap Up post. Doing the weekly review post was taking up too much time and wasn't effectively communicating what I wanted to say.
-Wednesday Cha-Cha will be based on a theme each week! The first one of the new year centered on Bloggiesta, and I think it made it a much more useful post. Videos may still be random, though, so ye be warned.

Here's the final tally on the goals I set for myself for Bloggiesta:

1. 20 Illustrated Friday posts

2. Update challenge lists

3. Write the following reviews
-Mine to Possess
-Hostage to Pleasure

-Branded by Fire
-Beat of Temptation
-Lead Me On
-Wondrous Strange (Blog with Bite)
-Wicked Wild West


4. Set up two draft pages for Blog with Bite reviews, complete with logo already in there per month.

5. Put Lead Me On review on netgalley.com

6. Make Google Docs sheet with code for Scandalous Book, Breaking News, and other high frequency pictures.

7. Stand Alone Posts- I ended up keeping three of the ones I wrote

8. Comment comment comment!

Other Accomplishments:
-Streamlined the Twitter accounts that I follow
-Cleaned out my Google Reader starred folder and pruned a lot of blogs from my list of ones I follow
-Set up Google Alerts for my blog name and URL

If you participated in Bloggiesta, how did you do with your goals? Did you accomplish what you set out to do? What are your plans now that Bloggiesta is over? Any cool things on the horizon?

3 comments:

April said...

Wow, great job!!

It's amazing how much you can accomplish when you set your mind to it :-D

Jenn (Books At Midnight) said...

Wow, you finished so many reviews! Great goals, and congrats on completing so many. :D

Caitlin said...

I think I'm going to participate next time. I'd love to be able to have some time to get some things done and it sounds like this is the time to do it!

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