Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Bloggiesta Finish!

Bloggiesta Finish Line

Bloggiesta hosted by Natasha at Maw Books Blog finished on Monday morning - it was great to check in on the blogs of the many participants and see all the improvements everyone was making.  Thanks again to Natasha for being a fabulous host!

I had a lengthy list of goals - I didn't complete many of them but am happy with what I did finish. 

Posts

Finish my backlogged reviews - I think I have about 4 reviews waiting to be written Finished 1 of the 4

Write post about author event with Pete Hamill - DNF

Write Weekend Cooking Post - it's rare that I cook much so this is not a regular one for me but I finally have something to say! DNF

Write 1-2 bookish posts (not reviews but focus on reading/books) DNF

Blogiversary post and plan giveaway! Done - stay tuned for the giveaway next week!

Immigrant Stories Challenge

This year I am hosting my first challenge - Immigrant Stories - and I am very excited about it. I need to spend some time updating my suggested reading for the challenge and checking in on the participants. (BTW - you can still sign up so join us!) Done!  It was great to see many "new to me" blogs signed up!  Check out the list of participants!  I also updated the list of suggested reading for the challenge - there are some great immigrant stories suggestions on here. 
Challenges

In addition to my Immigrant Stories Challenge, I plan to sign up for a number of other challenges for 2011 and need to close out all my 2010 challenges
Finish my 2010 DNF challenges post (hangs head in shame) done - will be posting tomorrow

Complete 2011 Challenge sign-up post in progress

Plan books for challenges (maybe this will prevent a DNF post at the end of the year!) not done but I will work on this during the weekend (my own personal Bloggiesta!)

General Blog Tidying

Update my Books Reviewed page (it is woefully behind) finished - here is my list of reviewed books

Tame the feedreader - I need a system people! not done - another task for this weekend

Explore and analyze stats didn't finish - (ok, didn't start).  I have histats on my blog and check the sources of visits and search engine terms but would like to understand more about how I can further analyze my blog because I think it will help me make changes to matter to those that read my blog.  Any stats recommendations?

Enjoy the Party!! this I certainly did as I seem to have spent most of the weekend hopping around blogs and on twitter following #bloggiesta!  It was great to meet so many new to me bloggers such as:

IndieReader Houston
Books Fitness and Other Stuff
Bibliophile Girl
Books from Bleh to Basically Amazing
Randomize Me

I hope new visitors to my blog will continue to stop by!  thanks again to Natasha for hosting another successful Bloggiesta and thanks for all you do for the blogging community!

2 comments:

  1. You had so many goals! I was late to hear about Bloggiesta so I had sort of a mini-bloggiesta, but even I couldn't get everything done. The weekend was just too busy. I'd be interested to hear what people suggest for stats. I'm trying to work with mine as well!

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