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This was one of the best challenges I have participated in. I learned, I coded and learned some more.  I did have a major set back with Joomla but recovered nicely after I jumped back over to WordPress.  The other failed part was I didn’t get to make the rounds to make comments on other blogs but I did find a lot of new blogs to follow. I owe many thanks and praise to Natasha at Maw Books http://blog.mawbooks.com/ for hosting this challenge, without her I wouldn’t have focused and got my to do list down to just two final things to complete, a few reviews.  I felt after I wrote several reviews, I wasn’t really putting my whole effort into it so I got the post set up with links and summaries, so I now have templates and a renewed spirit to tackle those task this week.

I came away with two things from this challenge that is going to keep me motivated and moving things right along:

1. I have a workable schedule that I can work with that is important guideline to keep me focused.
2. My fear of writing my opinion, that has been a struggle for me since I started blogging I feel for the most part that struggle has been thrown in the recycle bin and I can freely walk about the cabin!

Here is my task list – http://theblackcell.com/blogs/index.php/bloggiesta-to-do-list/

Sweeps - http://theblackcell.com/blogs/ (All Completed)

1. Clean Out Old Post
2. Clean Out Reader
3. Write Future Posts
4. Clean Up Links
5. Set Daily Posting Goals
6. Make a Writing/Posting Schedule
7. Add An About Me Post
8. Update Plug-Ins
9. Clean Out Image Folder on Host – Completed

Book Blog - http://theblackcell.net/blog/ (To Complete: Seven Reviews to Complete)

1. Clean Out Old Post
2. Make Legend for Ratings
3. Check for Completed Challenges
4. Create a New Book Blog Button
5. Complete Reviews of Books (Seven More To Go)
6. Clean Up Links
7. Review Policy
8. Update Plug-Ins
9. Add Stats to Site

Movie Reviews - http://theblackcell.net/Films/ (To Complete: Few Reviews to Post/Write and my TBW List)

1. Create list of 101 Horror Movies for my Movie Challenge
2. Write Movie Reviews
3. Create a Banner for Movie Challenge
4. Create Movie Categories
5. Make a Ratings Banner
6. Make Legend for Ratings
7. Sign Up for Affiliates
8. Fix the RSS
9. Add RSS feed to Feedburner
10. TBW List of Movies I Want to See
11. Create a Button
12. Create a Template for Weekly Wishlist of New Movie Releases
13. About Me Page

Since it’s my daughters b-day tomorrow, I’ll wrap up now and spend the next couple hours on getting post scheduled for the week and leaving comments on participating Bloggiesta Blogs.

Total time working on Bloggiesta - 30 hours

I did three mini challenges:

1. Bloggiesta Mini Challenge-Your Review Policy – http://girlsgonereading.net/archives/316 – Jennifer at Girls Gone Reading (@girlsgonereadin)
2. Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge: Write Your Blogging To-Do List (@kimthedork and @farmlanebooks)
3. Jackie from Farm Lane Books (@farmlanebooks)– Do not lose it all!  How to back up your blog.

Many thanks also to all who hosted the mini challenges!

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Task Completed

• 1/2 Hour – About Me Page for Sweeps Complete
• 1/2 Hour – Created a template for weekly wishlist of new movie releases
• 2 Hour –  Creating post for the week

Total time for task – 2 hour

Total time working on Bloggiesta - 28 hours

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Task Completed

1. 1/2 Hour – Backed up all three blogs for a flashback mini challenge -Jackie from Farm Lane Books (@farmlanebooks)– Do not lose it all!  How to back up your blog.
2. 1/2 Hour – Cleaned out MckLinky on TBC-Book Blog & Cleaned out Mister Linky on TBC-Sweeps
3. 1 Hour – TBC-Book Blog – Cleaned Out Old Post 481 starting point – 258 – ending point.
4. 1 Hour – TBC-Book Blog – New Button
5. 2 Hour – TBC-Book Blog – Review Policy
6. 1/2 Hour – Cleaned Out Blogroll
7. 1/2 Hour – Change my Gravatar and my Blogger profile icon and Google profile icon
8. 3 hours – Wrote several reviews (Seven Still to Complete) – Cleaned up reading challenge post.

Total time for task - 9 hour

Total time working on Bloggiesta - 25 hours

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I got the ratings banner and legend done for TBC Book Blog.  I created 30 post to post for next week for the Sweeps Blog. Scheduled 40 post for tomorrow.

I still have a lot more to tackle before the end of this challenge but I think I am on the right path!  I hope everyone is enjoying this challenge as mush as I am.

Signed up for affiliates program pending approval for several advertisers.

One more thing I got the posting schedule done:

• 50 for Sweeps
• 1 for TBC-Book Blog
• 1 for TBC-Movie Blog

http://theblackcell.net/blog/

Total time for task - 2 1/2 hour

Total time working on Bloggiesta – 16 1/2 hours

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