Since it’s summer in most places, and everyone (myself included) seems to be in a blogging slowdown, I thought this would be a great week to, possibly, get away from the computer for a bit. No, we’re not going to just ignore our blogs — we’re going to look for blogging inspiration somewhere new. Darren [...]
Blog Improvement Project
After visiting the wrap up posts and tallying the counts, I’m excited to announce the winners for Blog Post Bingo. There are two winners — one person who completed all 12 posts will receive a $10 e-gift certificate from Amazon.com. The second winner, chosen randomly from all entrants simply gets featured and praised here in [...]
Whoops! I totally forgot to put this up yesterday — sorry! Anyway, I was going to do something this week about blog categories and tagging, but soon realized the topic is more complicated than I anticipated and, frankly, I need something low-key after Bingo (results soon). So this week is going to be something easy [...]
Lately, I’ve been sort of pathetic at actually blogging about the Blog Improvement Project tasks I’ve been coming up with. But not so with Blog Post Bingo, I actually got quite a few posts done! The best part of it was having the motivation to get a couple of more in-depth posts I’ve been thinking [...]
If you’re participating in Blog Post Bingo (which anyone can), be sure to link to your results post by Friday, July 24 at midnight at the original Week #13 Mr. Linky. If you’re behind — don’t feel bad! Of the possible posts, I think I’ve only finished about six. And, you can submit your results [...]
A number of the responses to the Mid-Year Review (Week 12) said that Blog Post Bingo (Week 3) was a favorite topic, so I decided to run it again during July! This time, we’ll be going for three weeks (until July 24) and trying to write 12 kinds of posts. The idea of Blog Post [...]
Finally, the results! The BIP Week #11 project was to dissect some book reviews by the numbers.The gist WAS to go to this Google Docs spreadsheet and fill in some questions based on two book reviews — one of your own, and one from a professional organization. Questions included how many personal references there were, [...]
Congrats everyone! We’re now halfway through the Blog Improvement Project! I think that’s pretty awesome. Week #12 is also a great time to get back on the bandwagon if you’ve fallen behind, or join the BIP for the first time. At this point, I think it makes sense to revisit the goals we all set [...]
The BIP Week #11 project was to dissect some book reviews by the numbers. I was (and still am) excited about this idea, but so far response has been pretty low. So I decided to extend Week #11 one more week — you now have until Friday, June 19 to complete it. BIP #12 will [...]
Oh man, am I excited for this week’s BIP topic! This week’s task is a content analysis of book reviews to get some info about reviews. How long are they? How personal are they? How many paragraphs does the average book review have? By comparing book reviews written by bloggers to reviews written by professionals, [...]
