Bloggiesta – A Marathon Blogging Event

Jun 13th, 2009

Sponsored by Natasha at Maw Books

I’m participating in the first ever Bloggiesta – a marathon blogging event which lasts 48 hours beginning at 8:00 AM June 19th. Natasha wants us to “focus on blog content, improving/cleaning up your blog or working on your social network profiles.” She provides some ideas on the post about the event.

We’re supposed to have a goal of time spent…I am going with 18 to 20 hours total in the 48 hour time period. If I exceed that I’ll be thrilled since I am working most of the day on Friday which really dips into my time to participate.
If you are on Twitter, use the hashtag #bloggiesta to join the chatter.
It is not too late to join, visit Natasha on the post about the event and sign up with Mr. Linky.

I have already started making a list of bloggy things to do during the event. Here is my tentative list:

Update and add to my THE LISTS pages (I’m moving lists from this site to here and will be closing that blog at the end of the year)
Create Sunday Salon post for the 21st
Create Mailbox Monday post for the 22nd
Create Friday Finds post for the 26th
Migrate Women Writers posts from that blog to this one (I will be closing my Women Writers blog by the end of the year since I seem to never post new content to it)
Create 2 to 3 Women Writers NEW POSTS for a rainy day!
Create a summer reading post.
Create a Noteworthy News post.
Clean up broken links on my blog.
Organize my challenge lists.
Update blog links in my right side bar.
Catch up on reviews.

I am certain this list will be growing and changing by next Friday!! Hope you’ll be joining us for this fun and productive event.

rhapsodyinbooks says:

June 13, 2009 at 13:30

You have quite an ambitious list! Good luck with it!

Teddy says:

June 13, 2009 at 14:14

I would have like to participate in this one but my mom will still be in town then. I look forward to seeing what you do for it!

Ashley says:

June 13, 2009 at 14:46

Good luck! I plan to participate as well and I can’t wait! I’m still working on my goals though.

Natasha @ Maw Books says:

June 13, 2009 at 18:50

Thrilled that you are joining the challenge Wendy! I can’t wait to get started and it looks like you have a great list of things to get accomplished!

Caribousmom says:

June 13, 2009 at 19:42

Rhapsody: It *is* ambitious…and I probably won’t get everything done…but we’ll see! Thanks for the good luck wishes.

Teddy: Have a great visit with your mom!

Ashley: I’m interested to read everyone’s lists Good luck to you as well.

Natasha: It is a great idea for an event! We will all be so productive next week it is scary!

Les in NE says:

June 14, 2009 at 05:14

What a great idea! I’m going to be too busy during that period to participate, but you’ve inspired me to devote some time to blog housekeeping. One question – how to you clean up broken links in your blog? Is there a tool to search for them for you?

June 14, 2009 at 08:11

Les: I WISH there was a search tool … but, no… There is no easy way to find broken links except to go through and click on them (which is why they are still broken on my blog!). I am going to start with my reading journals and work through them one at a time. I know there are broken links because every now and then I find them…sighs. I don’t know how they “break”…but I think it might have something to do with when I migrated my blog. So I am going to primarily focus on links which were PRIOR to my migration.