Bloggiests Mini-Challenge!

Bloggiest Mini-Challenge: Setting Goals

Part of Bloggiesta is mini-challenges - tasks to help you spruce up your blog, some of which also include prizes participants can win. There's a list of new mini-challenges for this year on Suey's blog, It's All About Books. Danielle has posted Flashback mini-challenges on her blog, There's A Book. These are challenges from past Bloggiesta years.

One of the Flashbacks designed and hosted by Amy of My Friend Amy, a wonderful blog, is about Setting Goals for your blog. This is a challenge I desperately needed! As a result, and lots of thanks to Amy whose goals inspired my own, I've come up with a list of goals for my blog in 2012:

**Overall, by the end of 2012, I want to write a blog I want to read.
**By the end of 2012, I want to decide, once and for all, if I want to move my blog to Wordpress.org.  If my answer is yes, then I want to move it.
**By August I want to have a schedule for posting as well as posts ready to go so my posting isn’t up in the air or last minute.
**By early June I want to be writing reviews I’m proud of but that take me less time to write than they do now.

These may not look like much, but these goals are huge and will, hopefully, improve my blog ten fold! (Hoping, hoping!)

~ Bloggiest Begins! ~

Bloggiesta Starting Line!

I discovered only yesterday that Bloggiesta is this weekend. This will be my first time participating and I’m excited about it!  Bloggiesta is organized by Suey at It’s All About Books and 1st Daughter at There’s A Book. Bloggiest is a Blogging Fiesta led by mascot, PEDRO: Plan. Edit. Develop, Review. Organize. The idea is for the next 3 days participants work on perfecting their blogs and connecting with other bloggers working on their blogs.

My blog and I need help! My initial list is below but it may grow and change as I hopefully figure things out and cross out items!

Bloggiesta To Do List!
1. Make changes to sidebar
2. Link up with Twitter, Facebook etc.
3. Find out how to list social media icons on sidebar
4. List books read and/or by Title and Author
5. Figure out how to list above on a separate page attached to my blog
6. How to make additional blog pages
7. Find out what the above is actually called! (Maybe page tabs?!)
8. Clean up Google Reader
9. Clean up labels
10. Update Goodreads account
11. Reduce review backlog
12. Learn to write better and shorter reviews and write them faster!
13. Comment, comment, comment!
14. How to add a video to a posts
15. How to add an audio excerpt to a post
16. Pintrest
17. SEO - what is it, how to use it!