Key Concepts
- Successful bloggers often set aside time to think strategically about their blogs every now and again
- Figure out the things you feel are most important in blogging and develop a plan for next month by specifying tasks you want to achieve each day
Sample Plan
- Six posts a week (Sundays are a day off from posting)
- Each post day having its own type of post
- Time on Sundays for determining the specifics of each post (topics, titles etc.)
- An administration task each Monday
- Promotional activities on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays
- A day for readers (Fridays) for emailing, answering questions etc.)
- Stats analysis on the last day of the month
- Brainstorming on the first day of the month
Reflections
- You still have to keep up with daily tasks like comment moderation
- Don”t bite of more than you can chew, or you may get blogger burnout
- BIG recommendation: Look back over the last 31 days of tasks and identify which ones you might want to perform regularly on your blog.
Questions:
- What tasks will you continue to perform regularly on your blog?
- What is the most important thing you’ve learned throughout 31DBBB?
Buy 31 days to Build a Better Blog
- Day 31 is bittersweet. I joined late but life took over and I can see it takes concerted effort to blog daily. The challenges always took me 4+ hours to do because I wanted to be thorough and learn EVERYTHING.
- Most important – connect to others
- Building blogs takes time
- Steps to continue
- Do the 31 day challenge on all my blogs (four) even if I am skipping around so that I grow each and the lessons sink in and to connect them all together with links
- The sample list in the discussion post seemed reasonable for doing this challenge for this 31 days
- I will have a post at my Social Media Blog for day 31 that is more complete than what I could put there today
- I could use comments on my new blog post on my new blog
- After I finish all 31 Days, I will update the list under the tab Build Blog with summaries or at least you will have a link to each Day of posting.
- Excellent post by Michelle with summary of each Day in challenge
- I leave you with someone else’s reflection on their 31 days back in 2007 with another group bb31days
- A number of these blogs are still going today. Check out her list of participants at the bottom of the page
updated April24, 2011
Thank you all so much for taking the time out of your busy summer schedules to take this challenge.I would’ve stopped at Elevator Pitch if it wasn’t for all of you wonderfully supportive and talented ladies (and gent!). It’s really been a pleasure and an experience I will always remember. If you see me out and about on forums and Twitter, please say hi! I’d love to get to know everyone better.A VERY special thank you to Problogger (Darren), the SITS Girls (Francesca, Tiffany, Heather, and Kathy), the Blog Frog (Holly and Lori), and the community leads (Jen, Lynda, and Rachael). You’ve all been the most kindest, helpful, and inspiring people throughout this. If you ever need anything that you feel I can help with, just say the word.
Now get out there and follow your blogging bliss all!
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Eileen Ludwig of Social Media School brings to the world decades of computer experience with a desire to learn and share current technology multimedia tools for communication. She is owner of four sites: FreelanceTourist , Digital Photography, Web Design School, and Social Media School Each are in different stages of development and evolution.
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Thanks for stopping by my blog -glad we could meet up through the 31 Day problogger challenge!
happy blogging!
It went by fast didn’t it and it always seems once you commit to a project life has a way of getting complicated.