found day 7’s task a good one to consider – what a nice little educational twist – stop and reflect on what you have learnt so far! I’ve been a commenter for a while – I found that in the early days when I wasn’t sure of what to write, that I would spend the time instead perusing other’s blogs and leaving comments so I’m not sure that I’ve gained a huge amount in the first six days of this challenge. However, what the tasks have done is to make me conscious of the quality of my comments.

The first task was useful as it got me back into the habit of visiting my blog daily and I do believe these social software programmes do need to become part of your daily or weekly routines. The importance of linking was highlighted for me in this task and this is something I have been trying to do in my own posts, and also in comments on others blogs. The second task to find a new blog to comment on was fun and led me to a new OT blog that is an excellent resource. Day 3 led me back to cocomment which I had signed up but had not ever properly used. I’m still finding it less than useful, in that you can track some posts but not others. The tracking function doesn’t appear to work on blogger.com (I could be wrong here)… and so I don’t get notifications of when someone has commented on my comments. I can see the value of such a programme, but perhaps either need to get back in touch with the cocomment people, or swop over to comment as Sarah has recommended. Days 4, 5 and 6 got lumped together but actually worked really nicely as a combined task as one led to the other – asking questions, disagreeing and also going back to continue the thread of a discussion are all tasks I normally do. I’m not sure I learnt much except that I could be more disciplined in checking back where I’ve left comments to see if a discussion is underway! More reason to find a commenting tracking service that works across all blogging programmes.

So Day 7 complete, and look forward to the next task for Day 8.