Thirty Day Challenge: Pre-Season Warmups
In the last couple of hours, I made some forward progress and thought I should share.
First, I signed up for the Thirty Day Challenge and did the three critical, must-do today tasks they told me to do. Easy enough so far.
Then I downloaded the Pre-Season Cheat Sheet and watched the Pre-Season Cheat Sheet Video. That was quick and painless.
The Cheat Sheet recommended I start with the Twitter lesson, which I did. However, I already have a Twitter account so I opted to download the 3 page PDF and skim it rather than watch the 8 minute video. That took me about 30 seconds. If you are unfamiliar with Twitter, this will be a good introduction.
Next stop: the Twhirl lesson - a 42 minute video or 3 short PDFs. For something like installing, configuring, and learning software, I do better reading the instructions and doing it myself. I skimmed the PDFs and couldn’t imagine what might have taken 42 minutes to describe, so I watched a couple random minutes from the video to make sure I didn’t miss something critical. It seemed pretty straightforward, so I skipped the rest of the video.
My mind still wasn’t fried so I did the Google Reader pre-season lesson. This one has 4 downloads and a 49 minute video. Yikes. I don’t see myself watching that much video. I love the program so far - great content, fabulous layout. But my first comment to the folks at ThirtyDayChallenge is to break up the video into chapters. For instance, I already have a google account so I would like to skip that section entirely with a single mouse click. In any case, I configured Google Reader and tested some of the features. I haven’t used it before so this was new and interesting.
Finally, at 1:15 a.m., I ended with the Google Subscribe lesson. The video is 39 minutes. The pdf is 2 pages. You do the math. No video for me. I truly hope I’m not missing the boat entirely. If anyone has gone through all of the ThirtyDayChallenge videos and compared them to the pdf downloads, I would be very interested in your comments - are the videos packed with useful tips that are missing from the downloads?
In any case, I have taken enough action today and now I must let my mind rest.
Have an action-packed day!