Social Media Challenge Digest V.9 & Lessons Learned

By
Colin
– 01/31/2010Posted in: Social Media

Here are some of the best posts that were dis­cov­ered through the Social Media Chal­lenge on Jan. 29-31, 2010.

Reflections On My 14 days

Two weeks ago, I started the Social Media Challenge in the hopes of finding, recognizing, and promoting some of the web’s best undiscovered content. I think this was mostly successful.  I’m really thankful to everyone who participated in the challenge.  It would not have been nearly as successful without you.

Here are a few quick things I learned from the experience:

  • Next time, (yes, there will be a next time) I’m making the challenge 7 days instead of 14.  14 days ended up being too long and a lot of the momentum was lost on the weekends.
  • It was difficult to not tweet content from blogs that weren’t on my original list
  • Blogs on my list didn’t update frequently enough (there were some days when I had nothing to tweet from my list)
  • I enjoyed reading posts from blogs I would not have otherwise read (great picks everyone!)

Big thanks to some of the challenge’s biggest participants: Eddy Badrina, Alyssa Gardina, Joe Flowers, Erica Martinez, Simon Salt, Cynthia Smoot, and many more!

About the Social Media Challenge

The Social Media Chal­lenge is a 14 day quest to find the hid­den gems of the blo­gos­phere.  Par­tic­i­pants start at any time and select 10–15 blogs not found in the top 150 of AdAge’s Power 150 list or within the top 100 on Tech­no­rati.  The goal is to diver­sify the con­tent that is shared through Twit­ter and give some deserv­ing blogs a leg up.

Fol­low #smchal­lenge on Twit­ter, or check out the Twit­ter list for more participants.

Related posts:

  1. Social Media Challenge Digest v.1
  2. Social Media Challenge Digest V.5
  3. Social Media Challenge Digest V.6
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About Colin

Colin Alsheimer is an Account Supervisor for Weber Shandwick and the VP of Promotions for the Social Media Club of Dallas, among other things.