Blog Challenge: Does Your Blog Make a Difference?

Recently, Liz Strauss of the Successful-Blog posted “I Want to Make a Difference, Too”, a guest post from Jesse Petersen of Gitr’s WoW Blog. In it, he debates within himself and asks others how he can make a difference in the world around him. I want to make a difference. That sentence is a paragraph […]

Blog Challenge: Top Ten Blog Interface Designs

Business Logs offers “The Web’s Best Interface Design” websites, and I thought I’d challenge you to: List Your Top Ten Best Interface Designed Blogs As part of my ongoing blogging challenges, I want you to blog about your ten favorite designed blogs from a different perspective: user friendly navigation. Pretty is important, but what is […]

Blog Challenge: The Features of Version 2.0

Recently, a friend was describing her life after her divorce and the recovery process afterwards. “I think I can finally release Leslie 2.0.” I laughed so hard. I decided to use this example as a blog challenge. Your next blogging challenge is to blog about what in your life is now version 2.0. Is there […]

Blog Challenge: What Keywords Make You Number One in Google

In a recent Blog Challenge on testing your blog’s development, mandarine answered: I have learned one thing: when I google “The happiest person in the world”, I come out #1! That’s pretty cool, huh? (And I am still #2 without the quotes). Your blog challenge this week is to research what word or phrase makes […]

Blog Challenge: Testing Your Blog’s Development

Here is a blogging challenge for those who want to learn more about monitoring and studying your blog traffic, and developing your blog. Visit the following links and study the information they give you on your blog. Then blog about what you learn from these various sites and if they helped, hurt, or change the […]

Blog Challenge: Stupid Human Tricks

Science Daily wrote about an air guitar t-shirt for fans of the electric guitar who can’t afford to buy or play a real one, but who can afford to buy the t-shirt. Your blogging challenge this week is to blog about something bizarre, strange, weird, off-beat, eclectic, unusual, rare, stoopid, or just seriously odd. Dig […]

Blog Challenge: Top Ten List of Blog Goals

We’re barely a month into what is considered the “New Year” for many countries and cultures around the world, a time for reflection and preparation. This week’s blogging challenge is not to make a list of things to change or habits to break. I want a list of your blog goals. Blog a top ten […]

Blog Challenge: Have Blogs Changed the World?

I recently posted a blogging challenge on changing the world in 30 seconds and it got me thinking about how blogs have had such an amazing impact on the world today. While many think about blogs as offering examples of freedom of speech, allowing those who have long not been heard to shout their message […]

Blogging Challenge: How far we’ve come and how far we have to go

I was in a Goodwill this morning, hunting up some warm clothes in order to survive in our new colder climate, and stumbled upon a 1969 Life Magazine issue featuring our first closeup photographs of the moon from the lunar space module, along with pictures of the “earthrise” in color, photographs that will be eternally […]

Blog Challenge: What Have You Learned This Year?

Last year, I asked my readers to blog about “100 Things You Learned This Year You Didn’t Know Last Year”, and I’ll ask again. Your blogging challenge this week is to blog about 50 things you learned this year that you didn’t know last year. Hey, that’s less than one a week. You must have […]

Blogging Challenge: Describe Sound

“Diamonds dipped in caramel.” That’s the lovely description of singer Ella Fitzgerald as described in a recent NPR’s All Things Considered program called “Vocal Impressions: Hearing Voices”. Several years ago, I had that last, long, wonderful father-and-daughter time as we went to look at colleges in the Northeast and decide which one had the most […]

Blogging Challenge: Who Is Your Favorite Sexy Blogger?

Wired has released their “Favorite Sexy Geek” list, and I couldn’t find a blogger on the list. So it made me wonder. Think back across the past year and your blogging challenges is to tell us who you think would be on your favorite sexy blogger list this year? Now, there are some guidelines. A […]

Blog Challenge: Changing the World in 30 Seconds

A year ago, I asked my readers to make a list of 30 things they could do in 30 seconds or less to change the world. This week’s blogging challenge is another challenge to write such a list. Blog a list of 30 things you can do in 30 seconds each to change the world. […]

Blogging Challenge: Should All Business Professionals Blog?

The Learning Circuits Blog posted a “big question” for the month of October which asks people to respond to the question “should all learning professionals be blogging?” A lot of educators and others have responded, adding up to 26 at last count, all examining the issue thoroughly. It got me thinking about whether all professionals […]

Blog Challenge: Blog About Those Who Dare to Speak Out

According to a news story on BBC News, Amnesty International is asking bloggers to show their support for freedom of speech. The human rights group also wants web log writers to highlight the plight of fellow bloggers jailed for what they wrote in their online journals. The organisation said fundamental rights such as free speech […]