Since I don’t work at the weekends I had a few days of challenge to catch up but they were despatched pretty quickly since I’m familiar with most of this.

The second day was optional, aimed at those who were completely new to this and covered:

• An overview of Market Samurai
• An introdcution to the The Challenge Forum
• The importance of teams and how being in a team for The Challenge can be beneficial to your Challenge experience and details of some of the software and hardware tools that can help you get the best of your team experience – using Skype for conferencing and meetings, and Google Groups, Google Docs and Dropbox for sharing files
• Having meetups with people in your area and the value that doing so can bring to your Challenge experience
• Downloading Content

Day 2 – Getting familiar with Twitter

Day 3 – Introduing Google Chrome the browser recommendation for The Challenge in 2010 and the following extensions:

• Chromed Bird, which makes it very easy to interface with your Twitter account from within the browser from both a monitoring and tweeting perspective.
• Kuber Pagerank Checker
• Ultimate Chrome Flag which provides information about where a site is hosted geographically
• Google Global, which allows you to conduct Google searches as if you were doing so from another country. This will be very useful for me since I often want to see US search results but, because I live in the UK, they are not the default.
• RSS Subscription Extension, released by Google themselves, which allows for very easy one click subscriptions to blogs and sites with RSS

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