This is my first bloggiesta ever, and I was looking forward to participating because – let’s be honest – there is a lot of blog work that I have to do! How exciting! π
I will only have time for blogwork over the weekend, so I have tried to keep my goals small:
β¦ Try one bloggiesta mini challenge. DONE
β¦ Catch up with blogs; I have hundreds of blog posts to read! DONE
β¦ Write my own review policy; it’s time for me to have one.
β¦ Create a new blog page with the list of authors/books reviewed. DONE
β¦ Create twitter lists for bloggers/friends/authors, etc. My twitter is a chaos. DONE
β¦ Write at least one review (I have read several books the last weeks but I haven’t found time to review them).
I’m going to update this post as soon as the work is done, so everybody can know I’m trying very hard.
So let’s go!
I spent hours doing this task because I was following more than 500 people (or things, or animals… seriously!). The first problem I found was to decide which lists I wanted to create, and if I wanted to include English and Spanish-speaking people in the same list.
I finally created these ones:
In my Family list there are more than one member, and I can see them all, but I don’t know why in the list it says there is only one!
Anyway, this was a great goal because now I can keep track of everybody easily. I think I’m going to use this social network much more now.
Review index
I can’t believe I finally created my index!
I decided to do it by author’s surnames on a new blog page. You can see it here I’m proud of myself!
Catching up with blogs:
I use InoReader to read all my friends’ blogs and I think it works very good. The problem is that the reader works good, but I never have time to look at it, so today I finally read and commented in at least one of the post of my fellow bloggers:
My Ino reader before catching up:
I finally tried Shannon’s challenge because I wasn’t very good with picmonkey; I only have tried a couple of times to do very easy things, and I created a new facebook cover for my personal profile:
I wasn’t able to do everything, but I think I did a great amount of blog stuff. I need to perform my own bloggiesta on any of the following weekends because I really want to write down the review policy, but I’m not in a hurry; I’ll do it when I feel inspired.
Hope you got a lot of blog goals in this bloggiesta?
Melinda said:
I’ve recently done a review archive – it goes quick, promise π Good luck with your blog work, hope you enjoy it, Isi
Isi said:
Thank you, Mel! I think I can do it more or less fast. The mini-challenge is other issue, though π
marsar2 said:
This sounds like such an exciting, inspiring project :D. Good luck with your goals!
Isi said:
Thank you! I’ve already done something, and the weekend hasn’t started yet!
Mariuca said:
You have ahead you a really funny and interesting “job” to do.
Isi said:
You know, Mariuca: somebody organizes something, and I NEED to do it!
Terri @ Alexia's Books and Such said:
Great list! My main goal is to catch up on all the little tasks I’ve been putting off, like updating my review page. And I really should do something with my Twitter account, as it’s a hot mess. Good luck with your goals!
Alexia’s Books and Such…
Isi said:
Thank you, Terri! and good luck for you too; it’t true that all those little things put off for another time, in the end make us work for hours!
Andi (@estellasrevenge) said:
Good luck with all of your Bloggiesta goals!
Isi said:
Thank you, Andi! I’ve already done something so far π
L said:
I think this is a fantastic idea! Good luck with your mini challenges (some of them donΒ΄t seem so mini to me).
Isi said:
I agree: people know a lot about computers and they seem like super challenges for those, like you and me, that have no idea about it.
Rebecca Scaglione - Love at First Book said:
Yay! Glad you’re joining in!!! Good luck with your goals!
Isi said:
Thanks Rebecca! I’m trying hard!
Leeswammes said:
Hi Isi, good luck, I hope you’ll enjoy it a lot. Don’t forget to back up your blog if you haven’t done so recently. It’s always the first thing I do during bloggiesta. I don’t have time for bloggiesta this time, unfortunately.
Isi said:
I have never done it, Judith!! Ohh!!
Thank God you are here π
momssmallvictories said:
Glad you are participating in Bloggiesta. You have lots of good goals. I need to make some Twitter lists too.
Good luck.
Isi said:
Do it as soon as you can; Twitter looks friendly now π
Charlie said:
Excellent goals, Isi. If you get even just a couple done you’ll have done really well. A review policy is pretty important and may save you time in future so don’t worry about taking time on it now to get it right π
Isi said:
Ohh in the end I couldn’t write my review policy, but I plan to do it soon!
Thanks for commenting!
Wendy @ Wensend said:
Good luck! I’m compiling a list of want to do during Bloggiesta right now!
Isi said:
Hope you did it well too!
BookerTalk said:
I didn’t know about Twitter lists but will be giving that a go since my account is a bit of a mess. Thanks for letting me know about this. Good luck with the other tasks you plan Isi.
Isi said:
Do it, seriously! Now twitters looks friendly to me; before it was like hell!
BookerTalk said:
Okay Okay I’ll do it!!
Monika (@lovelybookshelf) said:
Hope your Bloggiesta is going well!!
Isi said:
Thanks, Monika!!
Shannon @ River City Reading said:
Isi, you did such a good job with the PicMonkey challenge! You picked up on all the tools really quickly and made such a great looking image!
Isi said:
Thanks Shannon! Now it’s when I confess that I spent an hour doing it π
But it was worth the effort!!!
joyweesemoll said:
You did great! I love your new Facebook banner. That’s a great idea!
Isi said:
Thanks Joy! Yes, I wanted to do something nice to my FB and at last I found my chance π