I’ve done it.
I rescued the published content from my two tumblr blogs and set up new blogs on another platform. I’ve also tweaked the method I’m using after having got into a bit of a mess using a pen name.
I’m adopting a ‘real names‘ policy for everything I do, and then if I have any success with my niches I can be bulding my own brand at the same time. If they fail to prosper, they just fade into history. I’m not doing anything that I would not be proud of in the future.
The new policy also allows me to bring into play some other “georgeous and educated friends” that I know of old.
Hence ranking number six on google already for phrase search with one niche, ahead of the tumblr already! So I’ve added google analytics on both the new blogs to see if there’s going to be any traffic , and been donated a nice little piece of genuine web2.0 User Generated Content already.
The 30day challenge itself has hit a bit of a paradox, which is always a fruitful learning opportunity.
The paradox is this:
If you orchestrate lots of people together and point them to one platform via a daily instruction video, it raises the profile of the course well above the radar with risky consequences. So it’s better if the group spreads out and uses a variety of tools.
But how do you teach a large and relatively synchronous group how to use the tools if they are all different, so that diversity can be maintained and we can compare notes without drawing too much attention of the wrong sort?
Well I don’t know how it will be overcome yet, but initial thoughts are:
1) Teach the principles of how to select and evaluate a potential platform then provide a large list to choose from.
2) Organise into smaller teams and make each team specialise in a different platform.
Not an ideal social learning experience for the 30dc community, but I think we’re getting there. Well the promise from Dan that the community won;t be shut down once the 30 days is up, we are well positioned to turn into a formiddable internet marketing Community of Practice.
So that’s yet another coincidence which has made joining the challenge particularly appropriate to me, as I’m specifically interested in all of these factors:
- Web2.0
- Apple Mac
- Blogging
- WordPress Multi User
- Communities of Practice
- SEO
- Working from home earning money online
The only thing missing is Wiki. Watch that space!