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Ed Dale Challenge – Days 2, 3 and Optional
Posted by: | CommentsSince 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
Ed Dale The Challenge – Day 1
Posted by: | CommentsThe early days of the challenge are about getting settled in and finding your way around the information and tools. So let’s jump straight in.
Day 1 – Action For The Day
Go to Ustream and sign up, connect it to your Facebook and Twitter accounts and spend some time getting familiar with the interface.
Should have taken about 15 minutes at most but I managed to lose an hour and a half faffing about trying to decide if I wanted “work” stuff on my Facebook profile and how it worked with Twitter etc. I found some instructions, in the Challenge forum, on how to stop work stuff showing up on your Facebook wall, but as I don’t use my FB account much I decided not to connect to it at all.
The reason you want to keep work stuff separate from your personal FB account is that, anything posted will show up on your friend’s walls and, I hazard a guess, that most of your friends and family are not interested in internet marketing info and pitches.
Later in the challenge there will be some instruction on using Facebook pages and at that point I will start addressing the business side of things at FB.
With regard Twitter, I connected my account with Ustream but have no idea what the result of that will be. I’m not so concerned about this as I already post work stuff there.
