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Project Blogger: Coming in 5th Two Weeks in a Row

Project Blogger standings

UPDATE: I misinterpreted what the graph intended. I thought that we had come in 5th for the 2nd week. Ines sent me the link to the actual week 2 results.

One thing that needs clarification. We are using her AR blog for the contest for the time being, until her new site is ready. Then, we'll shift to it. However, the judging is apparently focusing on her current blog on Ines and Rick's business website.

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Looks like Ines and I are doing pretty well in terms of our Project Blogger standings. Over the past two weeks we've come in 5th out of 14 (14, right? or is it 12? I'll check.). That's not bad, but...uh hum...it ain't good enough! We're aiming for #1! :-)

In truth, the contest is fun and we're tickled pink to be able to participate, but the real issue is in Ines becoming a more capable blogger and helping turn her blog into a useful marketing tool.

Blog Marketing
On Wednesday, we begin the next session which will deal with blog marketing and, yes, we're going to live that outloud and online so you can benefit.

This section of her training promises to be the most involved, and quite possibly the most productive in terms of turning her blog site into a business generating machine.

One essential component to this section is the completion of her new website, Miamism. It's close, but not quite there just yet. However, because it takes time for traffic to build there are some things we can do in advance.

Project Blogger requests
I do have a couple of requests relative to Project Blogger. One has to do with the polling. Can we find one place to put those polls and keep the current week's there? Also, once a week has passed can we take the poll associated with it offline so that only the current poll shows up? Why are we allowed to continue to vote on polls from previous weeks? Doesn't make sense to me.

The other issue is where to find the results. I'm no busier than the next person, but tracking down contest results has proven to be a bit time-consuming. Can those show up in one place as well?

OK...enough grumbling and complaining. Onward and upwards go Ines and I!

Posted by Paul Chaney on 05/01/2007 10:06 AM

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11 Comments on Project Blogger: Coming in 5th Two Weeks in a Row

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2007

Good point Paul! I didn't even realize there was polling... where is it? Who is polled? How are the points accummulated?

Wow. Your coming in 5th is really surprising! Hmm. Really surprising. Looking forward to your post on Blog Marketing. Thank you!

@Irina - you make my point for me :-)

@Debi - of course by "surprising" you mean you expected her to be at #1 right? :-D We're working on it.

I agree it is difficult to determine what is going on and who's ahead. The contest is very interesting, but we will lose interest if there is not a central point of reference.

Hope someone can clear up this issue soon!

P.S. Good job bloggers! It must be very difficult to be learning on a public platform...you have my respect!

I'm with Irina...there's been voting going on? I haven't seen it. hmmm!

I appreciate what you and Ines are doing. I've been trying to learn right along with her through her generous posts.

Paul- Yes quite frankly. You and Ines have been posting such great posts. I just figured you'd be higher. :)

Paul, glad to help! :-)

Hi Paul,

To further illustrate your point, the standings you are showing are not for week two, they are for week one. It is currently 9:57 AM PST and week two has not been posted yet. So, as of right now, we still don't know where anyone stands in week two :-)

Ines is doing a wonderful job, and I have learned tons from you both.

Take care, help lots of people and have a great day!

Tisza

Tisza beat me to the punch!! I was going to tell you "we still don't know the results of week 2 yet". Apparently we won't know until Thursday. (Sorry to gripe, but I think finding out the results of week two halfway through week four is too long a wait....) If things don't get sped up on the judging, we'll all be at Bloggers Connect and the results for week 14 won't be done yet. Seriiously. There's only 2 weeks from the end of the contest 'til the event!

@Tisza - Ah, I see. Yes, this does further my point. I thought, because the graph said "standings as of April 30," that those indicated where we fell pursuant to the 2nd week of judging. The powers that be need to attend to this and come up with a simple way to keep track of things. Otherwise, and I don't mean to be a cynic, people will become frustrated with the process.

One simple solution is the creation of a Project Blogger blog solely devoted to tracking relevant information, including polls, weekly judging results, etc.

Paul - I am sorry to admit that I was smiling through this blog (OK...maybe I also laughed a couple of times). You are such a great guy and this contest is more than I expected (including the confusion aspect of it) - So CHEERS to all and let's get the ball rolling or better yet....let's keep it rolling...or let's kick it!

After reading Kristal's comment I am a little concerned about people loosing interest - that would be tragic, considering the amount of work that goes into it and the fact that we want others to learn as well.

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