30 Day Blog Challenge Comes to an End
Some of you that have been following this blog may know that both myself and my partner Ely have been participating in a Blog Challenge.
In case you are new to our world a blog challenge let me explain. Across the internet there is a wonderful group of people that blog on a regular basis. One of these particular people put together a “challenge” to post one blog post each day for thirty days in a row. Thus the original name of “30 Day Blog Challenge” 
In this particular one you got to “sign up” and join the community. Jeanette Cates, the organizer of this little shindig, set up a wonderful site where everyone participating can post their bios, links to their sites, a picture of themselves, etc.
This allowed us to “get to know each other”. Also part of the challenge was to check out the other bloggers. Go to their sites, read their posts and share your thoughts.
This made for a huge community of people all learning and growing together.
30 days ago I wrote a post (my first for the challenge) about the fact that I did not blog. I explained how I believe in blogs and blogging and how we even teach blogging as part of our business. But that my partner was “the blogger” in our business.
30 days later I can now say (with this post) that I have met the challenge and this is my 30th post in 30 days.
Here is what I have learned:
- I can write (Not to bad sometimes even )
- I do actually know this stuff (I knew I did, I just wasn’t so sure I could get it “on paper”)
- People can be very generous (I have “met” some WONDERFUL, generous people in the last 30 days)
- I can write a blog post, find a picture, re-size the picture, publish the blog post and tweet about it in under 15 minutes if I am down to the wire…
- And last but not least….30 days in a row of blogging is HARD, but…do-able….(I was not so sure about that when we started)
Would I do it again? Sure, I had a good time.
Should you do one…Definitly!
It is a wonderful learning experience.
Yesterday I saw a statement that made me think. It said “If you can’t think of 50 blog post topics in your industry within a few minutes, you might be in the wrong industry.”
That really made me think…
I have to admit I had many a day of writers block in the last 30 days. But when it came right down to it I was able to come up with the topics (sometimes the actual content eluded me but…).
I can now proudly say I have made it to the end. I posted 30 blog posts in 30 days.
I will be on the look out for the next “Challenge” and I will not hesitate to join. Will YOU be with me?
2 Responses to “30 Day Blog Challenge Comes to an End”
Kathryn Griffiths
I say … way to go. I’m a bit relieved it’s over, even though I learned tons and met fantastic people.
This challenge was a bit more challenging that the last one I participated in. More people were involved and it was hard to get around to everyone and comment on their blogs.
It is certainly nice to meet you. I’ll watch for your tweets so I can RT. and read your posts.
Sheila Atwood
Congratulations! Well done.
It is interesting that I had some of the same wins as you did.
I also found that I know my stuff! And I was better and faster at writing it.