Biannual Blogathon Bash Wrap Up June 2014

 

 

Biannual Blogathon Bash Wrap Up

 

 

Once again I take my hat off to the host Kathleen Garber and the other mini challenge hosts. Every time I take part, I’m amazed at the quality and interesting challenges that are available.

I’ve learned a lot,
enjoyed myself tremendously, and
got some blogging work done as well.

At the first twitter party we chatted about to-do lists. One of the participants, Judy Jordan Scot, mentioned the to-dos and the ta-das. Here is what I’ve accomplished this weekend, my ta-da list.

From To-Do to Ta-Da

I participated in the following mini challenges. Although I completed the challenges, some tasks will be ongoing.

Learn How to Configure Your Twitter Handle

It’s the small things that make the big difference in the end. A little thing like a Twitter handle can impact the sharing of your posts. Thanks to Leila from Life as Leels who reminded us how important it is. She was extremely helpful in assisting if you had questions about the Twitter Handle.

 

Get Organized With These Must-Do Blog Tasks

Megan at Shaping Up to be a Mom gave me a great idea for organizing my daily tasks. She adds a folder to the bookmark tab. Then she adds all the daily links in the folder. This in itself has made my life so much easier.

Her list of daily tasks is all relevant and should be on every blogger’s list.

 

Present a User Friendly Layout

Jennifer at Dancing in the Rain gave the following tips improve your blog layout.

Remove obnoxious widgets
Clean out the sidebar. You can’t have everything on your sidebar, so choose wisely.
Install a new comment platform.
Install a set of social media icons that are easy to find.
Install a post sharing widget to make it easier for readers to share posts.
Your color schemes should be pleasing to the eye.

Most of these tips I do on my website. With the merging of my blogs, I couldn’t use everything on all the blogs, so I chose wisely what to use and what not to.

 

The Whys and Hows of a Newsletter for Your Blog

This mini challenge by Michelle at Divas with a Purpose is the challenge that intrigued me the most. I’m in the process of creating a newsletter, so this came at the right time.

My newsletter title is: WOW Christian Gazette.
The content will be an article on Christian living practical tips and links to the latest posts in the main categories on my website.
I’m in the process of learning how MailChimp works.

 

Ready to Set Up an Affiliate Program for your Blog?

Michelle at Divas with a Purpose gave me the extra nudge with this mini challenges. On my to-do list for my blog is to create eBooks. The next step will be setting up the affiliate program.

 

7 Key Things Your Blog Should Have

Mini Challenges hosted by Kimberly at Kimberly by Keystrokes are always worthwhile to do. It takes time to complete here challenges and often it’s something you’ll continue to work on after the Blogathon. However, they contain important tips that will enhance and improve your blog.

The key things she mentions are important for a website/blog and I’m in the process of adding them. I have completed:

Contact Me page
Social Media and Sharing buttons
Categories
I have a Newsroom page and will probably add the About Me page.

 

Past Mini Challenge – Categories and Tags

I found this mini challenge hosted by For Display of His Splendor on the January 2014 mini challenge list. I was so pleased, because this is one of the main tasks I wanted to work on this weekend. With great comments on the Facebook Group page, I decided to use

a few main categories – Christian Fiction, Bible Fascination, What is New, Writing Services, Quizzes and Quests
then to add subcategories and also
to use tags.

Making a Blog Header

I installed Gimp.org and went through the steps set out by Shades of Rose Media to make a blog header/banner.

The header was doing great until time ran out and I battled with adding text. For some reason I can’t get this right.

 

The Blogathon has run its course for June 2014 BUT there is a great surprise for later this year. Want to know what it is? Go to Blogathon Facebook Group or to Biannual Blogathon Bash website to wait for the announcement.

Bye, see you at the next Blogathon!

 

 

 

 

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