31 Days - Current Reflections and Challenges

[Kate Olson]

This is just a spot for the members of the current challenge group to post reflections and challenges faced while completing the challenge. Perhaps challenge-veterans can respond to our pleas for help here!

[Kate Olson]

Just added you to my blogroll challenge list! Looking forward to seeing how you do!

[Rebecca KrauseHardie]

Oh Man. I really have to figure out how to do this stuff! Like my TO DO list has been to figure out how to set up a blogroll! (Its like so basic..... ) Cheers

[Michelle Hudiburg]

Welcome to the challenge Rebecca! I am so WAY behind that I think I'm just going to start back at the beginning again. :-) I look forward to meeting you and learning as we go through this experience!

[Michelle Hudiburg]

I really could use someone to audit my blog. I'm having trouble finding anyone here wiling to do it, or knowledgeable for that matter. Thanks in advance!

[Michelle Hudiburg]

Oh yes, that would be wonderful. I need a first time reader to look at mine too. Feel free to let me know what needs to change. I'm new at this and ready to learn.

[Sarah Stewart]

Hi MIchelle, I am just looking at your blog as a first time reader and inexperienced blogger. here are a couple of thoughts, for what they are worth.

I would love to know more about you. Before I add you to my reader, I want to know what your blog is about and whether it is 'worth' following your blog. At the moment I know very little about who you are or what the blog is about. Based on what I see so far, I would not add you.

Advice I have received about my own blog is to add a search facility that is clearer to see than the current search facility you have at the top left hand corner.

Also add RSS feeds by both reader and email. Here's what Sue Waters wrote on my blog in response to her audit.

cheers Sarah

[Michelle Hudiburg]

Question: How do you add a blogroll?!?!?! Felling REALLY stupid here!

[Andy Roberts]

Hi Michelle, as you're on Blogspot they don't call it a blogroll as such, but the way to add a blogroll should be like this:

Dashboard >> Manage Your Blogs >> Views from the Basement
Manage >> Layout >> Add a page element

Link List >> add to blog ( change title to blogroll if you like and save )

Then for each blog or link "add new site url" and "new site name" >> add link

Just knowing that it's called Link List on blogspot should be enough to get you started.

Mine is http://distributedresearch.net/blog and Andy Roberts cheers

[Michelle Hudiburg]

Thank you Andy! That's something I'm going to have to work on tonight when I get home.

[Sarah Stewart]

Hi everyone, I am a bit confused. There appears to be 2 forums discussing this new challenge - one started by Kate and another by Christine. Which one should we stick to, or am I getting hopelessly confused. cheers Sarah

[Sarah Stewart]

Hello everyone, well, I have got over my holiday inertia and am back on the challenge again. Making a list of a weeks posts has been the most challenging so far, not because I do not have enough ideas but because I have too many. I just don't see myself sticking to the plan. How are the rest of you doing with this particular challenge? Sarah

[Andy Roberts]

Sarah, I was never very keen on the idea of planning a week in advance because I like to respond to stimuli rather than plans, but the planning process was actually quite useful. As for sticking to it - no way, it had the opposite effect. Up until tonight I had only posted one of my planned articles, which felt like a suppressed week. I still have the draft titles saved up though.