Bloggiesta Update #4 and Wrap-Up

Day 3 brings an end to Bloggiesta IV for me. This fun event has been hosted by the lovely Natasha at Maw Books.  Overall, I was pretty productive. I was able to spend the whole day working on my blog – lots of housekeeping/organizational stuff going on. It’s pretty mundane stuff, but needs to get done and the Bloggiesta is the perfect opportunity to work on it.

Here’s what I have accomplished this weekend:

• Write up a few reviews that I need to post/set up posts for upcoming reviews
• Wrote and posted 3 reviews
• Set up post and scheduled posting for 1 review
• Set up posts for 5 books that are next up on my reading list
• Prepare a few posts for rainy days  Completed
• Set up templates for weekly memes Completed
• Clean-up tags, category lists Completed
• Update reading log and link reviews to log Completed
• Clean up and update my challenge lists Completed
• Also linked reviews done to all challenge lists
• Add a page listing all reading challenges  – didn’t get to this
• Add an about me page, review policy, disclosure policy, privacy policy – didn’t get to this
• Clean up my Google Reader subscriptions Completed
• Update Goodreads books read list Completed
• I added all my books read since 2003!
• Add book reviews to Goodreads – still need to do this – oh well, another day!
• Analyze and re-evaluate my blog – I think this is an on-going process, but I did give it some thought and have some ideas for changes to be made moving forward
• Back up my blog – still looking into this
• Look into new commenting system
• I attempted to install IntenseDebate and ran into some problems, so I uninstalled it. I didn’t end up reinstalling it – I am going to do some more research into commenting systems before committing to one!
• Participate in at least 2 mini-challenges – Completed 3/2
•  Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge: Google Forms hosted by Jen at Devourer of Books -you can still enter to win a Starbuck Giftcard by filling out the form – click here.
•  Bloggiesta Mini-challenge: Footers hosted at Bookaliciou.us  – I added a copyright footer!
• Bloggiesta Min-Challenge: Organize Thy Books hosted by Jenn at Jenn’s Bookshelves – I created a google doc for logging review requests and I added a new tag to my emails in gmail.

Things not on list that I did:

• Added link to my PaperbackSwap books I have posted
• Updated my Goodread link on my blog – now showing books to be read
• Got a button for my blog – compliments of Gina at Hotts Books (thank you Gina – you rock!!!) 

Time spend today: 11 hrs

Current running time: 28 hrs (that’s 3 more than I hoped for – YAY me!!!)

Whew…my eyes are killing me from spending so much time in front of the computer, but all-in-all, it was worth it! I got a ton done this weekend and already have a list to work on for the next Bloggiesta! Thanks again to Natasha for hosting this phenomenal event!!!