Well what a weekend it has been. Ed and Co have given us all some amazing points of action to take with us after the challenge has finished and to polish those techniques and use them in our own particular styles. The thirty day challenge has become a victim of its own success!
I think that a little more forward planning by Ed could have stopped this from happening but hey - that is easy to say in hindsight. Of course I'm talking about the Tumblr Slap. By only showing us one platform to put our test sites on (Tumblr) the thousands of challenge clients turned up on their doorstep and opened at least two blog each (some had 10!). The traffic that this must have produced will probably have totally freaked out Tumblr staff who replied by deleting on mass most of the blogs we had carefully designed.
Personally, I found the Tumblr blog quality to be lacking to say the least. I spent about 6 hours creating my blogs and lucky for me; my site was one of the last to be deleted so I was able to back everything up including the affiliate links which were the most time consuming. I have already started another blog at "Wordpress.com" and I am using different content. Some of my group though didn't have the luxury of time to back anything up and were therefore frustrated at the waisted time. It's also not a nice thing to experience - having your site deleted because of a breach in the terms of service(TOC). It makes one feel like a criminal!
Ed also had alot to say today about the GIANT facebook tag teams which were set up to give us a huge leg up on to the WEB 2.0 platform. He suggests that there is no need to get more than 5 or 6 people to socialize your sites, that that would be enough.... Great advice Ed but it would have been better coming earlier in the challenge. There was even a large facebook list run in the forum which I became a member of. I think this whole afair could have been totally avoided.
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