Today is Day 1 of our latest ProBlogger Group Writing Project and like last time the response has been very cool. The project topic was announced around 24 hours ago and I’ve accepted 63 submissions already (I say accepted because a surprising amount of people (around 10%) didn’t follow the guidelines for submissions and I had to say no – please remember to submit new posts not previously written ones – this is a project to practice your writing styles rather than just highlight old posts).
The quality of submissions so far is great and I’m sure you’ll enjoy surfing them. It reminds me just how much expertise there is in the blogosphere on a wide variety of topics.
Before I get onto the first round of submissions a quick mention of the sponsors of this week’s project. They are New Homes, Webmaster-Talk.com forums, Google Tutor and OwnMySeat.com (full details of the $1800 of prizes below). Thanks again to them for making this project all the more fun.
So here are the first round of submissions. As you’ll see the ‘How to…’ theme gives a wide scope for topics – never before have I assembled such a diverse list. It’s not too late to join the fun – do so by following the guidelines here. Here’s the first round of submissions:
- How to Survive Your Young Husband’s First (Unexpected) Heart Attack by Olivia
- How to Overcome Fear by Scott
- How to Be Bald by Dave
- How to get promoted when you work from home by Home Office Blues
- Quieting the Monsters… or how to feed your Children by Miscellaneous Mum
- LJP – the Treo 600 Gameboy Emulator by Tam
- Make a simple diagonal page background using photoshop and css by Ben
- How to Be a Parent and Still Have Fun by Mama Duck
- Manage Your Manager – How to cope with Ineffectual leadership by Katy
- How to Dress Like a Desperate Housewife by Leora
- How to Make a Rubbish Website by Tim
- How To Participate in the Blogging Community by Ray
- The Great Flood by Jude
- How to Jam a Printer and Settle for Tie-Dye by Deb
- How to build a GARDENING blog that’s bigger than Boing Boing by Stuart
- How to Get Rich in Three Easy Steps by FMF
- How do I get a job in the Car Industry by Gary
- Become a Blogging Maniac by Tammy
- How to Dangerously Inflate your Ego via Blogging by Wendy
- How to Proofread Your Own Writing by Anne
- How to Sell Your Home for Sale by Owner by Rob
- The Inside Scoop on How to Get Published by Tasra
- Don’t get caught misunderstanding the difference between APR and APY by Ricemutt
- Set up your blog using Textpattern by Jaro
- How to write a great blog post by Leroy
- Integrating a Forum with WordPress by ZMAng
- The Process of Making a Stock Trade by Blain
- How to Keep Your Relationship Healthy With your Wife by Matt
- Take Your Cell Phone to the Next Level by Eltan
- How to Make Buyers Fall in Love With Your Home by Paul
- How to have Fun Programming: BounceF*ck by Tim
- 6 Ways to Improve Navigation and Increase Page Views by Joe
- How to Enhance Mac Security by fcodc
- How to Have a Relationship with God for Eternity by Scott
- How to Set Up Tor and Privoxy on Ubuntu Linux by Corvillus
- How to Save Money at the Grocery Store by Shannon
- How to Make Your Retirement Money Last by Arieanna
- How to Help Find a Cure for Diseases with Your Computer’s Unused Processing Time by Brent
- How to Play Video Games with a Baby by Lynn
- Quit smoking (or not) one flaw at a time by Northern Girl
- Harness the Power of Word Cross-References for Mammoth Documents by Andrew
- How to Let Go and Move on by Milo
- How to Make Time for the Important by Basil
- Get Healthy in 30 days! by Rt @ Real Muscle Online
- How To Turn The Greatest Idea Ever Into Reality by Ben
- How to load Garmin TOPO maps to your hard drive by Rich
- One simple knot that keeps your shoes tied by Blaine
- How to Tame the Caps Lock key by Jhay
- How to Make a Thai Girl Laugh by Tom
- How to Bring Art to the Unwashed Masses by Jennie
- How to Make a Short Film for Tropfest by Jason
- Channel Your Historical Mentors by David
- How to Start Bird Watching so that you’ll keep Bird Watching by Mike
- How to Choose a Bad Martial Arts Instructor by Chris
- Position your Fish Tank for Prosperity and Growth by Renée
- How to have a successful career in politics (Jamaican style) by Xaymaca
- Hair for Sale by Billy
- Showing Posts When there’s no Related Posts by Ken
- Learning the basics about Sharpening by Steve
- How to Make it Big in the NBA if You’re Small by Easterangel
- How to Find Your Niche by Alsuran
- Do Blackbirds Swoop? How to Deal with Aggressive Bird Behavior by Trevor
- How to Make a Family Documentary by Ron
Thanks everyone – great work!
The Prizes
At the end of the week once all submissions are in I’ll randomly select five submissions who will each receive one of the following five prizes:
- One week complimentary stay (for up to 4 people) at a beach front apartment in Estepona on the Costa del Sol Spain (pictured above). This prize must be taken in the next 12 months and the winner must cover all their own costs in getting to Spain (ie this is for the cost of the accommodation only). If the prize cannot be taken by the winner they can also take an iPod (video) instead (by negotiation with the sponsor). This prize (valued at 1000 euros if taken in the peak season) has been kindly donated by New Homes on Nubricks.com. Thanks to Adam and Chintan.
- $100 Cash (in your paypal account) OR a month long text link in the Webmaster-Talk.com forums. This prize sponsored by Webmaster-Talk.com forums – thanks to Tim and his team.
- A Personal license for ExpressionEngine including a personal license for the forums module (worth $149). This prize is sponsored by Marcus from Nanoblogs.de
- A $149 yearly plan to Audible.com OR a $100 gift voucher to iTunes (your choice). This gift has been donated by Google Tutor. Thanks to Craig for this gift.
- $200 gift voucher from Amazon to spend on anything you like. Its been kindly donated by OwnMySeat.com. Thanks to Jason for his kind donation.
