It appears social networking activities seem to go hand-in-hand with “challenges”.

At the time of writing this (1 Jan 2009), I had only been formally involved in 1 social networking challenge, and as it turns out started 1 solo a week ago, 1 yesterday and 1 today.

31 Days to a Better Blog – Chocolate Challenge

Some how I ended up participating in a 31 Day Blogging Challenge. This challenge was originally run by Problogger but the ante was upped when Sue Waters dangled chocolate as a reward for competing in and completing the challenge – hence the name extrapolation.

I entered about a week into the challenge and most certainly had some ground to make up. 

I confess, to this day I still have not completed all 31 days

Regardless of not finishing, I regard this exercise as a pivotally defining experience for me in terms of experiencing real connectivity via social networking tools and activities. Most of these participants I am still networked to and touch base with on a regular basis.

I regard this experience as a significant event in my professional & personal life

Search my tags for 31daysBB for a look at what I did achieve!

Note: I do actually intend to finish it. The longest 31 days in history I suspect!

7 Days to Rediscovering your Blogging Groove

I lost my groove. I am soloing the 7 day program from Problogger, Darren Rouse to regain my blogging groove

I am working on the theory that the 7 days are not literally required to be consecutive!

Search my tags for 7daygroove for a look at what I did achieve!

365 Days

I had seen this around occasionally on flickr etc, and had a bit of a dig for the relevant group. This is the original 365 Days challenge from which there are now multiple derivatives.

The challenge?

“Take one self portrait each day for a year”

Sounds easy? I don’t think so! I LOATHE having my pic taken. Almost phobic about it, so this is going to be a more massive challenge than it appears.

Search my flickr stream for the 365days tag to follow along! Comments, ideas & general moral support warmly welcomed!

Twitter 365 Project

Ok same as above, rinse and repeat, but I will be using a different image for this than the challenge above.

Search my flickr stream for the tag twitter365 to follow along! Again, comments, ideas & general moral support warmly welcomed!