Pedro!

Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize.

Adios Bloggiesta…it’s was great while it lasted…if you’re new and didn’t see my previous post about Bloggiesta, you can read all about it here. While I’m not entirely sure as to how much time I’ve spent participating, I can tell you what I’ve accomplished. I’ll be honest, I don’t typically write posts on the weekend but now that I’m working full time out of the home I don’t see me having much time during the week.

Out of curiosity – do you set some time to spend on your blog(s) writing and commenting?

My Bloggiesta Accomplishments:

1. Did some housecleaning in Google Reader…THAT was SCARY…I had OVER 1000 posts that had not been read since who knows when (I did however read a handful AND commented…WHOOT WHOOT!!), there were 24 blogs that had not yet been categorized and a couple blogs no longer being used or rarely updated that needed to be removed (if you don’t write it in at least every other week, I’m cleaning you off my list)
2. Wrote 2 (this post makes 3) for here and 3 posts at The Book Faery Reviews (sorry folks but the Bloggiesta posts are quite similar as I didn’t know which readers would be interested in reading)
3. Re-designed Farrah’s Little Place in the Blogosphere – I decided to go with the same theme that I use at The Book Faery Reviews BUT the logo’s and colors are obviously different. The background image is also different. Hope it makes viewing more pleasing and navigating around here easier for all.
4. Planned a couple book giveaways for The Book Faery Reviews for the month of January.
5. Officially participating in Pam from MotherReader’s Comment Challenge where you comment on at least 5 book blogs a day. One of my blog resolutions was to get more involved with other bloggers by commenting on their posts so here I go. This challenge runs through the 28th of January.
6. Pam from Bookalicio.us reminded me to make sure my blogs were copyrighted appropriately so I made sure mine were up to date.
7. I did actually update my categories yesterday before realizing that Beth from Beth Fish Reads was doing a mini-challenge. Renamed / regrouped some of mine while I was re-designing my place around here. I made changes in my navigation bar for this.
8. Updated my Google & Blogger profiles so the latest information was out there for when I leave comments behind.
9. Jackie from Farm Lane Books reminded me to do my weekly blog back up and I did it.
10. Karin from Karin’s Book Nook reminded me that it’s important to check for dead links and I now am using dead-links.com to do the job for me. I actually discovered I had some!! EEK!!!

Well…it’s time to end for the night…
time to end my portion of Bloggiesta…
time to get everyone bathed and ready for tomorrow…
time to do a bit of yoga/meditation to wind down…
then it will be time to spend with hubby, a movie, and perhaps a book later…

Thank you Nastasha at Maw Books for organizing the 2nd edition of Bloggiesta!

Pedro!

Plan.  Edit.  Develop.  Review.  Organize.

So I’m late in catching in on the #bloggiesta event in Twitter that has been going on all weekend. I actually started in I believe yesterday early evening after responding with others participating on the Twitter party that @bloggiesta / @Mawbooks were hosting. It appears however that 1) I never signed up on Mr.Linky (doing so right after posting this intro) AND obviously 2) hadn’t thoroughly planned all that I try to accomplish during the challenge. Leave it to me to wait til the last minute but oh well, better late than never, right?!

SO…here are my plans:

1. Go through Google Reader…clean out, organize, start reading through (I’m SOOO AFRAID of this one, honestly can’t remember the last time I went through it since I’ve been working FT outside of the home again)
2. Write 2-4 posts this weekend (Sat-Sun) for here and/or The Book Faery Reviews
3. Re-design Farrah’s Little Place in the Blogosphere (finished that one late last night actually)
4. Plan out some giveaways for The Book Faery Reviews (scheduled a couple for this month)

Here are the mini-challenges that are going on that I might try to swing by on:

• Rebecca from The Book Lady’s Blog – 2010 Resolutions.  You know you got them!
• Pam from MotherReader -  Blogging is about community, so check out this Comment Challenge (watch for a Mr. Linky to be up on Saturday for you to complete this challenge).
• Danielle from There’s a Book – Blogging takes time & I’m sure we’d all love to blog faster.  Using a cheat sheet is just one idea of how to save time.
• Pam from Bookalicio.us – There is nothing worse than seeing your post on somebody else’s blog.  Talking about blog copyright and what you need to be doing to protect yourself.
• Beth from Beth Fish Reads – Using categories & labels to find what you’re looking for.
• Jackie from Farm Lane Books – Do not lose it all!  How to back up your blog.
• Karin from Karin’s Book Nook – There is nothing worse than landing on 404 error pages.  It’s time to go on a dead link hunt!
• Chelle from Tempting Persephone – You have some great content.  But can people find it?  Here’s showing off the best of the best.
• Kristen from Bookworming in the 21st Century -  Introducing a new blogger mentoring program and forum.
• Jenn from Jenn’s Bookshelves – Got nothing to say (not likely – that’s why you’re blogging in the first place!) but here is an opportunity to brainstorm blogging topics.

Props goes out to Nastasha at Maw Books for organizing the 2nd edition of Bloggiesta and to the following sponsors:

• Scholastic
• Hachette Book Group
• Peachtree Publishers
• Lisa Roe, Publicist
• Bloomsbury Publishing