Aug 29 2008

The Challenge Complete and Looking Ahead

Published by at 12:34 am under one post a day

The post-a-day challenge for August has come to a close. What started as an idea from Cole Camplese (to challenge himself), for me, it turned into such a great challenge and learning experience.

I know I’ve already posted about my thoughts on the post-a-day challenge, but I’d love to sum up the experience as a whole … and talk about the future.

Not only have I learned to focus and not over-edit (or at least try) my posts, I’ve learned so much more:

  1. To open up
  2. To take a risk
  3. To respond quickly
  4. To post it and relax

I spent about 2 – 3 hours every night writing and editing my posts and reading others posts. It has been challenging, but I loved every minute of it. The timing of this challenge couldn’t have been better as I had *just* started this blog about three days before Cole’s kick-off post. The challenge forced me to dive in head first. Exciting and scary!

Going forward I hope to engage more people in higher education in a conversation around web analytics. As I’ve mentioned many times, web analytics is more than my passion.

To me, web analytics is about responsibility to our users, our students. It’s time to make it a priority.

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3 Responses to “The Challenge Complete and Looking Ahead”

  1. # Coleon 29 Aug 2008 at 8:20 am

    I’m thrilled it was a worthy challenge for you! Sounds like writing everyday has given you new insight into what you like about blogging. I’ve really enjoyed getting to know you over the last 4 weeks as well. I think you’re writing about something very important in our space and am thrilled to read your thoughts and insights. Keep it up!

  2. # Avinash Kaushikon 29 Aug 2008 at 1:20 pm

    Shelby,

    Bravo.

    I have enjoyed reading your posts and it is perhaps your burst of creativity in these thirty days that got me reading and brought a lot of new readers to your blog.

    In my own humble experience posting regularly is very important. I started with twice a week and now, due to pressures of time, do once a week (almost all of the time) : ).

    Thanks, and great work.

    -Avinash.

  3. # Shelby Thayeron 01 Sep 2008 at 5:04 pm

    Cole and Avinash,

    Thank you so much for the comments and nice words.

    My goal is definitely to keep it up, although I’m not so sure on an everyday basis … hopefully close, though!

    I’m so glad you’re both enjoying my blog and hope you continue to do so. : )

    Shelby

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