I’ve been inspired and excited by reading through all the goals people have posted about. It’s given me a lot of food for thought as I try to formulate my own goals for 2009. Make time for personal reading. In 2008 I read a lot of books for class that I reviewed here, but in [...]
Challenges
Welcome to the first week of the 2009 Blog Improvement Project! The first topic we’ll be working on is goal setting — what do you want to accomplish with your blog in 2009? The first part of this post is links to some articles on goal setting that I found online, the second part is [...]
The 2009 Blog Improvement Project is starting one week from now, and I am really looking forward to it. If I counted correctly, there are currently 89 people signed up for the project, which is way more than I expected when I first proposed it! That said, I have to admit I’m a little nervous; [...]
Back in September I signed up for the Fall Into Reading 2008 Challenge — a challenge to read a set list of books between September 22 and December 21. Because I was busy, I only choose four books for my list: The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, [...]
Yes, the project I tossed out some ideas about last week is finally up! This is the first big community thing I’ve ever hosted, so I’m a little nervous, but I think it will be a lot of fun! The 2009 Blog Improvement Project is a year-long challenge that will consist of twice-monthly activities to [...]
Like I mentioned yesterday in my post about NaBloPoMo, I’m pondering the idea of hosting a challenge for 2009. My idea is “A New Year, A New Blog,” a year-long blog improvement project with a series of activities to improve your blog. I read a few blogs on blogging — ProBlogger and Copyblogger, and more [...]
Now that I’m back in Madison, I have time to think about NaBloPoMo. Overall, I enjoyed the challenge of finding something interesting to post every day. I actually think I succeeded pretty well and kept most of my posts related to my primary blogging topics. Here are the rest of my blogging-relates thoughts from the [...]
A few friends and fellow book bloggers have recently mentioned NaNoWriMo — National Novel Writing Month. The challenge is to write a 175-page (about 50,000 word) novel between November 1 and November 30. This sounds cool, but I’m not a novelist so it’s not really my thing. However, also ran across NaBloPoMo — National Blog [...]
Well, I’m afraid that I have to head off to bed — I’m exhausted! Cheerleading today was really a lot of fun; however, I did not start on my midterm at all — partly from blog hopping and partly from taking the entire day to visit a friend in Rockford, IL and make pies. Anyway, [...]
Well, I am home from making pie and getting back to cheerleading. I should be working on my midterm, but I really want to get through participant 80 on the list before I do some work. Then I can do the last 40 before I go to bed. That way I can sleep feeling like [...]
