Oh dear! I haven't read my Goodreads targets and really my blogging wasn't up to much either. However, the good news is that as I actually didn't set any 2015 targets for blogging it cannot be deemed a failure. But how does it compare to the last few years?
The last time I reviewed my blogging was in 2013. In 2013 I successfully completed #blog12daysxmas in January 2013, both for myself and for the Collingwood Historical Society. In June, I embarked less than satisfactorily in #blogjune for both myself and for the Collingwood Historical Society. That meant I was committing to doing 60 blogposts in June. I must have been mad! I have blogged about my madness here. In the end I managed to do 30 blogposts for the Collingwood Historical Society and 22 for myself. So all up it wasn't too bad.
I maintain to a greater or lesser degree three blogs for myself and one for the Collingwood Historical Society. The number of posts I did for each in 2013 are as follows:
For 2014, I set myself the following targets:
So in 2014, I actually achieved my blogging aims for Hecuba Reads and The Librarian and the Kitchen. I can be thankful for small mercies. The Collingwood Historical Society and Hecuba's Story rather fell off. There were a couple of reasons for this. And yes, I'll blame the Greek again. In 2014 for the first time since it started, I didn't do #blogjune because I was overseas at the end of my Greek course trip. The previous year, posts from this had featured in both blogs. A further reason for Hecuba's Story was that I stopped doing #anz23mthings when I got to number 14 and stalled on Thing15, although I had planned on completing it in 2014. But I will reflect upon that on another occasion.
As has previously been noted, I didn't set myself any blogging targets for 2015. But what did I actually complete?
So again, Hecuba Reads and The Librarian and the kitchen were tracking along as they had been. Hecuba's Story just fell off completely, as did the Collingwood Historical Society. And there are different explanations for both. With both again #blogjune didn't feature as I was off doing Greek again.
As for the Collingwood Historical Society, there were two key issues. Changes to the blog plugin to our website along with issues with Flickr no longer allowing posts to Blogger made what and how we were blogging previously very difficult and required cumbersome work arounds. Eventually we embarked on a project to change the platform for the website and in December 2015 launched the new site on a Wordpress platform. We are still playing with the blog format but hopefully in 2016 the blog will be more active.
For Hecuba's Story, I have to wonder if my lack of interest in blogging about technology relates to my lack of interest in libraries? I am certainly still interested in technology. Some would say I am obsessed with it. However, I haven't felt like blogging about it. But maybe it mirrors my reduced interest in Twitter. Who knows? All I can say is that I still blog quite regularly about cooking and more sporadically about reading.
So for 2016, I am purposely not going to set myself blogging targets. I am just going to see what, if anything happens. The following illustration may just symbolize what I heart.
The last time I reviewed my blogging was in 2013. In 2013 I successfully completed #blog12daysxmas in January 2013, both for myself and for the Collingwood Historical Society. In June, I embarked less than satisfactorily in #blogjune for both myself and for the Collingwood Historical Society. That meant I was committing to doing 60 blogposts in June. I must have been mad! I have blogged about my madness here. In the end I managed to do 30 blogposts for the Collingwood Historical Society and 22 for myself. So all up it wasn't too bad.
I maintain to a greater or lesser degree three blogs for myself and one for the Collingwood Historical Society. The number of posts I did for each in 2013 are as follows:
Collingwood Historical Society 51 posts
Hecuba's Story 40 posts
Hecuba Reads 1 post
The Librarian and the Kitchen 4 posts
For 2014, I set myself the following targets:
Collingwood Historical Society 52 posts
Hecuba's Story 12 posts
Hecuba Reads 4 posts
The Librarian and the Kitchen 12 posts
And in 2014, what I actually achieved was as follows:
Collingwood Historical Society 16 posts
Hecuba's Story 6 posts
Hecuba Reads 4 posts
The Librarian and the Kitchen 12 posts
So in 2014, I actually achieved my blogging aims for Hecuba Reads and The Librarian and the Kitchen. I can be thankful for small mercies. The Collingwood Historical Society and Hecuba's Story rather fell off. There were a couple of reasons for this. And yes, I'll blame the Greek again. In 2014 for the first time since it started, I didn't do #blogjune because I was overseas at the end of my Greek course trip. The previous year, posts from this had featured in both blogs. A further reason for Hecuba's Story was that I stopped doing #anz23mthings when I got to number 14 and stalled on Thing15, although I had planned on completing it in 2014. But I will reflect upon that on another occasion.
As has previously been noted, I didn't set myself any blogging targets for 2015. But what did I actually complete?
Collingwood Historical Society 4 posts
Hecuba's Story 1 posts
Hecuba Reads 8 posts
The Librarian and the Kitchen 12 posts
So again, Hecuba Reads and The Librarian and the kitchen were tracking along as they had been. Hecuba's Story just fell off completely, as did the Collingwood Historical Society. And there are different explanations for both. With both again #blogjune didn't feature as I was off doing Greek again.
As for the Collingwood Historical Society, there were two key issues. Changes to the blog plugin to our website along with issues with Flickr no longer allowing posts to Blogger made what and how we were blogging previously very difficult and required cumbersome work arounds. Eventually we embarked on a project to change the platform for the website and in December 2015 launched the new site on a Wordpress platform. We are still playing with the blog format but hopefully in 2016 the blog will be more active.
For Hecuba's Story, I have to wonder if my lack of interest in blogging about technology relates to my lack of interest in libraries? I am certainly still interested in technology. Some would say I am obsessed with it. However, I haven't felt like blogging about it. But maybe it mirrors my reduced interest in Twitter. Who knows? All I can say is that I still blog quite regularly about cooking and more sporadically about reading.
So for 2016, I am purposely not going to set myself blogging targets. I am just going to see what, if anything happens. The following illustration may just symbolize what I heart.
