Project blogger is now about a quarter to a third over.
Time flies!During
Week Four (April 30 to May 6), we got the Week Two results. Not unexpectedly, the format of my blog,
Live In Los Gatos, was mentioned as a place with room for improvement. We knew that, and were working on it.
I would have to say that the BIGGEST accomplishment of Week 4 was in getting a Beta-Banner done.
I floated it here in Active Rain for feedback, so the final tweaking is now happening. And hopefully it'll be up before I'm reporting on Week 5! (And thanks to all for the suggestions - I am taking them seriously.)
A CHALLENGE was the fact that Active Rainers left comments on my blog,
Live in Los Gatos,
about Project Blogger. I didn't want to delete the comments but instead felt I should explain them. That was VERY difficult and akward. In a reverse of normal roles, my oldest child proofread my blog entry about Project Blogger and suggested that I break it into two posts. Good advice! But I didn't want the only post of the day to be about me. Hence, I ended up doing extra posts. For week four, I had not seven entries, but 10.
I learned to strategize the order of my posts - to consider how things look strung together - after putting a piece on a local nudist colony adjacent to one about poison oak. Yeow! (I was already cognizant of the fact that I should vary the subject: a little marketwatch, a little local events, a little local history.... But this is thinking of how the pieces of the puzzle fit together for the reader.)
Each week
I have tried to read every single post of each apprentice first, and also each mentor. This week I believe I got 100% on everyone. I have tried to leave comments both in their Active Rain and/or "outside" blogs. I'm noticing that some of the other bloggers are very lively, visit my blogs too and make comments. Others seem to have no pulse. (What is up with that?) Maybe they are just busy? (And I am reading many other blogs too. This is all part of the learning, I figure.)
And you know what?
I'm really, really tired. On top of all of this blog fun, like the rest of you,
I'm still working my real estate practice - and it's spring. It's busy. You cold even say it's frantic. I try to take a day off each week and this week I didn't get one and now I'm paying the price: I'm really, really tired.
Frances Flynn Thorsen, my blog mentor, told me at the beginning that "it's a marathon, not a sprint". I need to remember that.
So for this week, I'm going to aim at 7 or 8 posts on
Live in Los Gatos, not 10.
And maybe even take
Mother's Day off! There's a
nice haunted place in Half Moon Bay I've been dying to visit. Doesn't that sound like fun to you?? If you collected
ghost stories, like I do, you'd think so :)
Ah, that's what I need in my blog: another post on the haunted spots in Los Gatos. That always wakes the crowd up some!!
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Don't work yourself too hard - though I know it's in our blood as Realtors to never stop - day or night. Must blog more, yes it's a marathon but some of us prefer to sprint the whole way LOL