I have been participating in the 31 days to a better blog challenge for 28 days, and I must say I will be sad when it ends. Not because I don’t have enough things to do to finish said challenge, as a matter of fact, it will probably take me more than another 31 days to do it. No, it’s the community of people who have formed around it. All slogging through a similar experience in very different ways. It’s been great journeying with you, and I hope it goes forward in some new form.

It’s hard to even isolate the daily tasks anymore, so I’m taking a new tack, and bringing forward a new type of reflection. At the beginning of the summer, I attended a workshop with Rita Bailey, during which we came up with an example to apply the learning. The result of which was me getting a new bike. This is the bike I rode in the Providence Bridge Pedal where I learned about Spontaneous Stereotyping and Storytelling. So I’ve been off riding again, this time on a 21 mile trail created on an old railroad bed. I learned a bit about training, and a realized a few things about blogging too. Read more »

Creative ways to manage challenge overload.

The challenge continues, and it continues to be challenging. The crew is getting creative in finding ways to get the TASK COMPLETED, Done , Progress = Completed Read more »

The blogging challenge continues. It is getting harder and harder to execute the cumulative suggestions, keep up with all the other participants, keep commenting on their work, and execute all the ideas fostered by seeing what they are all doing. Especially multiplied by two blogs. And run a start-up business alongside my volunteer board work. I am still fully engaged, I am just having a hard time getting to everything. I am enjoying learning about all sorts of new things through the regular posts the challenge participants are writing beyond the challenge posts themselves. Read more »

Improve your blog, Improve your reach

I continue to work on the 31 Day blogging challenge, albeit in a bit of a random order, as time allows. Turns out, this was a good thing, as I learned more from my Day 2 ‘First time reader’ audit than I might have.
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Darren Rowse from ProBlogger issued a challenge to spend time each day for 31 days to improve your blog. Michele Martin from The Bamboo Project asked her readers to join her in sharing the experience of applying the daily tips. I accepted the challenge from Michele to look at how I can improve the VisualsSpeak blog and the ASTD-Cascadia blog that I also administer and write for.

First impressions of the first four days- this is not going to be quick fixes and tips to transform your blog in five minutes or less. Like anything else, if it was easy, it wouldn’t be hard to be really good at it, so I shouldn’t be surprised. How to find the time to improve and continue to write for two blogs at the same time will be the first challenge.

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