30-Day Hubpages Challenge Reflections
69Day 30 of the 30-Day Challenge on Hubpages
A Review of Where I have been and what is next
When you take the time to reflect back you can learn so much. A great deal has occurred in these 30 days. Besides many news alerts on radiation fallout and the Japan nuclear meltdown; running to the store to purchase kelp and buckwheat noodles to protect my thyroid; sudden Southern Tornados destroyed nearby neighborhoods; a number of people in the community had the loss of loved ones through sickness or age; others are in hospice waiting mode; a few babies born; celebration of Passover, Springtime and Easter; the start of planting gardens; re-evaluation of social networks and reading many other blogs. Who watched today's royal wedding?
This 30-Day Challenge has opened up Hubpages community with more connections and time spent learning a few more features, experts, applications and techniques.
Each time you think back what can you do better, what can your release and let go, what place do you want to enter or devote more energy to improving, we do get to a better place.
The response to questions, answers, comments and building relationships results as another important lesson as time passes.
Along the way, I met Anish92 who posted a Forum topic about What is allowed on Hubpages Each day I check My Hubpages. You can check yours at http://hubpages.com/my/hubs/stats and my other tutorial on using Hubpages
The Mystery of the Missing Hubpages Solves
Lately, an unusually phenomena has been occurring. I see the black triangle indicating broken links. Very often these show other hubpages that have gone missing. Does anyone know what has happened? Are people leaving the community in droves and taking their articles with them? Just as I'm checking in on Twitter a flash from Hub Patrol HubSearchDotNet tweets: A Dramatic Day for all HubPages Moderators http://bit.ly/kDE05V [checking #hubpages on Twitter] BTW: This tweet link was broken! How do you like that for irony? I found the correct link. http://hubpages.com/t/248c93
When you start to read the forums, you will inevitably see this abbreviations SERP, which stands for a "search engine results page." This tells the listing of web pages returned by a search engine in response to a keyword query.
The results of this type of keyword search gives a number of items: a list of web pages with titles, a link to the page, and a short description showing where the Keywords have matched content within the page. Learn more on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serp and even much more on WiseGeek
Mother's Day Inspiration
When I stopped seeing myself with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself. ~ Nancy Colbert Friday (born August 27, 1933) Author of "My Mother, My Self: The Daughter's Search for Identity" 1977
Questions I Ask Myself
I'm still in a quandary over the deepest question and one I imagine everyone asks themselves, "Why am I doing this?" The biggest answer is "Love." Not a strange answer, because everyone desires to be loved, cared for, supported, and appreciated.
In the past, surfing the net, I've found studies that say all of the Twitter Love and other internet interaction and feedback adds up to a lot of virtual love. But, do you know what? Your brain does not know the difference and the calming hormones activated push away those cortisol stress hormones. Thus, this good thing we call the internet feeds our emotions. The only negative thing about it, if we can't curb our addictions, we lose track of our in-person real lives. So, every so often close the computer. Call that friend and meet-up live. Go to local and regional networking events. I attended the National Center for Homeopathy Annual Conference this month during the 30-Day Blog Challenge.
I kept blogging right through the meeting, getting a little help from my friends about important topics. Working late into the wee hours of the night when slumber should have overtaken.
Hubpage Activity
So busy reading other hubber blogs, especially Ashantina's on suicide, which received a lot of activity and personal stories. Laughing hysterically from Ewbie's satiric take on Panda-moan-dium effects from Google crawling restructure. Participating in the Forums, we can learn so much from those in the know. Due to all the Panda changes to google search engine and its effects upon the author mill communities, this hot topic needed a lighter touch from the infamous Ewbie, who hit 100% Rating on Hubpages. whoo-hoo!
The ups and downs go in wild swings. My profile rating reached its highest 95% at one point. Some discussions on the Feed revolved about Hubpages Ratings.
Relief Upon Finishing
The great feeling of relief comes with a lovely sigh, when removing the pressure to perform. Even though the pressure will be shifted to another area of work or play, self care and responsibility, hubpages will not feel so obligatory. Instead, I better clean my room! You do know Mother's Day is around the corner on May 8th, 2011.
List of Hubpages 1 - 30
- Aurora Over Norway Popular Time Lapse Video
Day 1 - April Fools Day This first day of the 30-Day Hubpage Challenge begins with a viral video of a natural atmospheric event. The Northern Lights. - BlogTalkRadio Hosts Vaccination and Your Rights In The United States
Day 2 - Alan Phillips, JD, is our guide through the United States legal system. His years of experience with vaccination law in the United States puts him in a unique position to answer our questions with wisdom. - Listen To The Wind Meditation Guided Imagery
Day 3 - Listen to a late night meditation inspired by the sounds of the wind moving the leaves on the trees. - Did You Get Your FaceBook Event Invitation? Change Your Feed
Day 4 - April 4, 2011 Please update your FaceBook Feed so friends can see your update status and you can see theirs, too. - David Shrigley Artist Photographer Designer Humorist Satirist
Day 5 - Learn all about David Shrigley's artwork for Day 5 of the Hubpages Challenge. Sardonic, sarcastic, ironic, philosophical, funny and more. - A Photo Journal To Teach Your Children What is Toxic To Animal Friends Your Pets
Day 6 of the Hubpages Challenge A Photo Journal of Foods Toxic To Pets - Making A New Friend When I Took The Train
Day 7 - Taking the train when traveling and making friends along the way. - Sympathy versus Empathy and You Don't Know Until You Ask
Day 8 - What's the difference between empathy and sympathy? How do we get in touch with self and others to heal? - Greed Leads To Total Collapse Of Systems
Day 9 ~ Understanding the economic collapse in Iceland. Current events on financial institutions and borrowing money. - Homeopathy Similar Suffering | Human Harbors the Arachnida Scorpion Energy
Day 10 - Learning about the scorpions sting and behavior. How can they be reflected in the human experience? - Lunch On The Train
Day 11 - Preparing a quick healthy lunch for the train ride. - GoPetition for Natural Health by Heidi Stevenson
Day 12 - I'm very proud to be friends with the author of an important international petition for Natural Health Freedom. Health advocate and homeopath, Heidi Stevenson, speaks out about protecting your health freedom rights. - Sea Life and Wood Products Provide Key To Removing Radioactive Materials From Drinking Water
Day 13 - How will governments cope with Japan's radiation problem? NC State University researchers provide new technology to clean up contamination - Hubpages Follow Love Tutorial
Day 14 - If you would like to continue to follow the comments of others on a particular hub, just click the "Follow" Button. You may want to follow to find out if the author has responded to your comment. Video tutorial. - Words That Mean Cry and Homeopathy
Day 15 - How many times can you listen to the song, "Cry Me A River?" This sad and lonely song illustrates the variety in the singers voice, just like a person's individual cry bears their fingerprint. - Homeopathy Scar Cream Acne Skin Keloid Eruptions by Miranda Castro
Day 16 - Miranda Castro's Scar Cream for keloids, cicatrices, lumps, hard skin tissue, acne, after surgery and more. - Recipe For Morel Mushroom
Day 17 - A great find in the garden. Morel Mushroom. - Techno Trance Music Viral Video
Day 19 - Presenting the "Trance" musical form. Call it electronica, techno or synthetic music that puts the listener into a trance hypnotic sleep state. - Reflections on Hubpages 30-Day Challenge
Day 18 - A round up of the half-way point through the challenge. Just over two weeks of writing for hubpages. Not an easy task. - A Few Words From Charlie Chaplin
Day 20 ~ A retrospective on Charlie Chaplin. How his words encourage me and help people triumph over hard times. - Springtime Shiitake Mushroom Recipe
Day 21 - Springtime shiitake mushroom recipe came after the hub on the wild Morel Mushroom find. - Introducing Lawrence Palevsky Pediatrician
Day 22Dr Lawrence Palevsky, pediatrician, has devoted his life to saving children's lives. This is your opportunity to learn from his experience, knowledge and wisdom about the science of building healthy immune systems. Support his work and new film - Google Accepts URL Shorteners
Day 23 - Using URL shorteners. Yes. Google will crawl the permanent versions. - Coffee Can Be Like Wine
Day 24 - Coffee may be a habit on the rise with benefits. Even France finds increase in gourmet roast. - Vietnam Raises The Bar On Coffee Production
Day 25 - Continuing the coffee them. Coffee production around the world. - Today's Coffee Talk On Hypertension HBP and Caffeine
Day 26 - What do we know about heart disease and coffee drinking? - Ethnobotanist In Search Of New Australian Coffee Species
Day 27 - A new species of coffee found in Australian stirs investigation. - Fair Trade | Like the price of oil the price of coffee also rises
Day 28 - Coffee prices on the rise with people willing to pay gourmet fair trade varieties for sustainable development of the earth. - The Coffee Culture Club
Day 29 - How many people adore their espresso with foamy white designs gracing the piping hot cup of java? - 30-Day Hubpages Challenge Reflections
Day 30 - Oooh La La. So happy it is over. Sunday will be day of rest, unless I get an idea. So, just watch out if you get any ideas, because we get addicted to writing on this platform.
Would You Do It Again?
Did you participate in this or any other Hubpages 30 Day Challenge? Would you do it again?
See results without votingI should probably vote in the poll. Would I do this again? Not in the immediate future. I would have to be in a place where I felt it would greatly benefit me in some way. Physically, the experience was demanding and draining of energy. The challenge to come up with topics only created a bit of procrastination of selecting from so many ideas on a few days.
The final week, the fourth quarter was actually the easiest because I selected the Coffee Theme ahead of time. This gave me a group of subtopics to delve deeply into and learn more about this subject and form my own opinions. I enjoyed bringing all these ideas together under one roof. Although selecting the theme gave me the opportunity to focus and concentrate on this topic, it also took a good deal of research time to pull it all together, dragging out the work time into the wee hours of the night when I should have been sleeping. That's just another big excuse.
Learning How to Open Targeted Links
I noticed that the option to open links in a new window is not enabled anymore. If anyone has the insight as to what happened I would be glad to hear about it. In fact, I will now go write a new hub detailing how to create new link in blank targeted link. But, there must be an easier way.
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Hi Debby, Interesting discussion. Very useful and informative too! Voted Up USEFUL!!
Debby. I think the whole idea is a nonsense. Only a few really capable people can write an article, a hub a day, and I had to (or tried to) wade through a lot of really poor, badly finished and checked rubbish. I loved yours and found a great percentage of what you wrote about interesting and valid, and I enjoyed reading the works of a hub friend, but... Eeuch! to some of the rest.
A lot of it was similar to one of the processes of Kopi Luwak
I keep pushing the "approve" comments button with nothing happening. MDLawyer thanks for visiting. Ian ~ I love our little secret. Kitty poop. Well, I have not read all the other challenge articles because of the demand to write authentic high quality articles every day. High personal expectations, you know. Blessings, Debby
Debby-loved the way you wrapped it all up in this hub while integrating the world's events. Missed the wedding, but caught the highlights. Missed the homeopathy event, but would have liked to have gone to it. I do close my computer and greet life in person; and I did not make the 30 this time around, although I did meet my goal in January when I first took the challenge. And, I always learn new things. :) Voted it up.
Hey there Denise ~ Sounds like you've done the challenge in January. Oh my goodness! I'll have to skim all of your 30 blogs. I missed the wedding too. LOL. The homeopathy event is continuous and on-going creating waves of awareness about this healing energy medicine. I must learn to close my computer down more often. So, to do this when you're busy making so many virtual friends? Be talking to you! Debby
Oh thank you very much Debby - I'm a sucker for praise and publicity. Plus your Karma must be rocketing up.
Nicely worked article yourself if you don't mind me saying so.
Ooohh. I love karma. Chocolate covered Karma is best.
Well shared article which i enjoyed reading from.
Hi Sun-Girl. Glad you are enjoying my hubs today. Blessings, Debby
A fabulous read, full of great insight and information that will certainly help this newbie. Thank you very much for sharing…
Hello Khmohsin. I appreciate the sentiment. Please explain how you could be a newbie when you've been on Hubpages 2 years with 103 Hubs and hundreds of followers? You must be living on a different time scale than me. Enjoy!
Hello Debby. Just read cloverleaf's account of her 30-day challenge and it linked here, which is good. Wow! Congratulations! Inspirational. I know since reading both accounts I will do this challenge. I am going to put it on the drawing board tonight. You have some great articles to check out too. I am interested in the sympathy-empathy article. Thank you for sharing. I got your message too. Thanks. All I got to do is get time away from work more often.
Hello Dear Tim ~ I tried to contact you and hope you received my message. I will have to check out cloverleaf's 30-Day Challenge. I had no idea she linked to me here. I will say that you will need to store up a lot of energy to pull through the month. Take a deep breath and get ready, go! Maybe plan out four week's worth of blog themes to cover, or what types of blogs you will write? Will you have a standard format? Mix it up? Make some as photo journals or pull in some videos? Maybe take some of your finished blog and go into more depth on some new Hubpages. Good luck and send me reminders to visit. This month will be very busy for me. Blessings. Debby
DebbyBruck: What an entertaining, insightful summation of shared experiences and triumphs in the HubPages community! Your last paragraph to all the learning fun is beautiful, as is the photo of your mother.
Thank you, etc.,
Derdriu
Hello Derdriu ~ Many thanks for visiting this summation of 30-Days of writing; truly a challenge for anyone. Sometimes I wonder who is behind the people with hundreds and even thousands of Hubs? Something tells me a group of people get together and share the workload. Just a note that the woman's photo is Nancy Colbert Friday, the author of the quote in reference to Mother's Day. The last paragraph stated how it feels to complete such a feat, while simultaneously challenging others to think about "going for the gold" and doing it, too! Blessings, Debby
So it was you who had done this, I have heard about in podcasts. In this month I had challenged myself doing at least one hub every day but could not complete the challenge. Well it was not that I did not have any thing to publish but it was because my internet connection crashed. Nevertheless, I wish to go on publishing.
Namaste Vinaya ~ Many many people before me have accomplished the 30-Day Hubpages challenge. Many others have also done the 30-Day MORE thank two times. Eeeks! Blast me, don't think I could do it again. At least not right now. Very taxing on you to write that much if you have other things to attend to in your life. Good luck!
Debby: Thanks for sharing your experience with us! I can identify with your question, "why am I doing this?" I have not participated in the 30 day challenge but I really respect those who have done it. I'm trying to write 2 hubs per week...
Hello Miss Frost ~ The truth be told, you don't realize what you are getting into until you begin. It takes fortitude and self motivation to keep the energy going throughout the month. You think about writing Hubpages day and night and it becomes an obsession. Good luck if you ever try it! Blessings, Debby
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What an interesting and original hub. Thanks for referring to my hub, and for even providing the correct link.