Bloggiesta Ole! (Wrap-Up Post)

Total Hours: about 18 hours (give or take - I wasn't really keeping minute-by-minute track...)
    Saturday - approximately 8 hours
    Sunday - approximately 8 hours
    Sunday evening/Monday morning - approximately 2 hours

What I Accomplished?

• Created templates (2) for reviews in Google Docs
• Created template for "Bookmarked" in Google Docs
• Created a review policy page - this was a biggie and took me the longest!
• Read (probably) over 1000 feeds in Google Reader (and I still have a 1000 more to go!)
• Visited the Blogging Tips group on the Books Blog Ning - found lots of helpful tips!
• Changed my template
• Added my blogs to Google Webmaster to keep track of RSS feeds (thanks to Leeswammes Blog!)
• Posted initial challenge posts - 1/2 done!
• Joined and commented on challenges - 1/2 done!
• Added challenge progress gadget to blog side bar - though this may change...

Mini-Challenges:

I completed three of the mini-challenges -

• Danielle at "There's a Book": It's all about the numbers - I set up a Google Analytics account...
• Jennifer at "Girls Gone Reading": Your Review Policy - I wrote one! (It seems a little premature to do so, but it gives me a firmer idea of the direction I want to take...) Please take a look and let me know what you think!
• Kim and Jackie at "Blog Improvement Project": Write Your Blogging To-Do List - I've written my (tenative) list (there's always more to add, right?!) and plan to post it sometime in the near future..

Thoughts:

This was my first Bloggiesta, but I really enjoyed it!  I didn't get as much done as I had hoped, but I surpassed my aimed-for time (12 hours - aim low, right? ;-) The biggest thing for me was writing my review policy.  I may never need it, but it's helped me define my goals and personal expectations for this blog, which I'm going to strengthen with help from my Blogging To-Do List.  All in all, it was great and I look forward to número cuatro!  Thanks for challenge Natasha!

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So there was even more distraction (and less Bloggiesta-ing) Sunday evening...

Murdoch Mysteries - I caught the season 3 finale (with Parkwood! - a local historical home in my city - and (I think) old Toronto city hall?) and now I want to go back to season 1 (and read the books, of course! ;-)  It reminds me slightly of the TV adaption of Anne Perry's Cater Street Hangman (which I'm trying to track down a copy of...), and it's Canadian of course!