When I signed up for
Bloggiesta I was feeling enthusiastic and healthy!
Bloggiesta To Do List
*Write Reviews and clean up drafts
*Bring Book reviews together
*Bring Interviews together
Done
*Bring associate programs together
Done
*Template for contest phrasing and contest answering
Done
*List books for review
*Have backup posts
Done
*Invite guest posts
*Cleanup tags
*Make a list of what I want to cover in 2010
*Edit About Me Page
*Write review policy
*List and Link other challenges
*Prepare for upcoming posts -
Partially Done
On Friday, when the challenge began I put in seven hours, having started in mid-afternoon. Saturday and Sunday was not as productive.
The first thing I did was clean up up the sidebar associate program sites so that now at least they are all together.
Done
Then I made up templates that I can use when running contests so that the list of rules is more uniform.
Done
I put together 3 backup posts. Very time consuming, but definitely worth the effort because now I have some breathing room.
Done
Prepare upcoming posts - which means having posts ready for the entire coming week. Very valuable! (still have one more to do)
Partially Done
I now have a post - see Events and Contests sidebar - that has links to the various author interviews on PVN.
Done
Total hours - 17
What Bloggiesta has helped me do is organize my thoughts on what needs to be done on PVN. I hope that when I have finished everything on the TO DO List that it will give the site more value to my readers.
As you can see I had lots of Bloggiesta plans for the weekend, but late Friday evening the symptoms of a nasty bug showed up. I've spent the last 2 1/2 days feeling achy, listless, and unable to concentrate on much of anything, even mindless TV. But in my moments of clarity - and there were a few - I worked on the Bloggiesta challenge! Most items were not accomplished this weekend, and that's OK. Now I have a plan.
Thank you, Natasha, and the many others who made Bloggiesta possible!
