On Sundays I’m looking back on the past week. How did my habit change go? How did my blog do? And how am I keeping up with my GTD system?
Progress on habit change
No progress on my habit change. I really know what benefit a daily check-in can have, like I did with my Early Bird Challenge on the Zen Habits forums. For this habit change I did not use the forum, and I’m not quite succeeding in it. Time to take a different approach, I have to get back to the forums.
Waking up early is still going pretty strong, but I feel I have slipped twice. I was in bed too late, and consequently woke up too late. Still early, but too late in my opinion.
Blog performance
This was a slow week when it comes down to traffic. No spikes in visitors, just about the same amount of visitors everyday. 9 new subscribers to the feed, thanks for joining us, you are most welcome!
| Statistics week 37 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Average RSS subscribers: | 260 | +9 |
| Average daily visitors: | 112 | -14 |
| Technorati Authority: | 93 | +16 |
Technorati is going strong! Lots of link love again last week, still quite a lot of it comes from the Personal Development Bloggers list that gets posted on a lot of sites.
I’m working on an exciting project where I’m collaborating with other blogs. I expect that it will not be finished coming week, but the week after that. It’s a combination of some existing concepts, but a bit meshed together. In this way I have never seen it done in the blogosphere.
I added the Blogrush widget yesterday, after Ray of CreatID brought my attention to it. Blogrush is a tool that shows relevant articles on other related blogs (well it tries to anyway). The number of page views you have is the number of times your article will appear in other people’s widget. They have an affiliate program that goes 10 levels deep, and those pageviews count towards your article showing as well. So if you have a blog and are interested in more traffic, sign up and help me out by using my affiliate link to Blog Rush to sign up (you’ll help Ray in the meantime as well, great ain’t it?).
Getting Things Done – weekly review
I have been reading into GTD again. I downloaded ListPro for my PDA and I’m going to take a shot at using Gtdfrk’s setup for it. This setup looks simple, and I like simple. But I have waited long enough to need to start all over again with collecting. I have too many scraps of paper with interesting ideas.
I have started to use HighriseHQ for my contacts in the blogging world, after Mike Rohde mentioned it when I asked what people use for managing their contacts. When I was reviewing Highrise, I realized that I was looking for a kind of ‘Customer Relationship Management’ tool for contacts. I was not only interested in just holding data on addresses and stuff, but I want it to help me remember when I talked to who about what. And it would even be better if I could interlink people that know each other, but that’s not a functionality in Highrise (yet?). I’ll stick with this for a while, and see what my experiences teach me.
{ 1 comment… read it below or add one }
I like reading about your weekly reviews, and wanted to ask, “how do you like the highriseHQ?” because my Thunderbird really isn’t up to the task, and i would like a CRM-style contact manager for my blogassociates.
Send me an email, if you would.