Written on December 19th, 2006 at 08:12 pm by Darren Rowse
Group Writing Project - Day 1
Day 1 of the Reviews and Predictions Group Writing Project is over and 55 submissions have arrived in my inbox from readers who are competing for the $2500 in prizes.
This round includes a few posts from our sponsors themselves (they’re not in the running for prizes but wanted to participate in the fun too). Alongside them we have a wide array of posts ranging from haikus, humorous pieces, lots of predictions and quite a few posts reflecting upon different niches this year. Together they make an interesting read.
Thanks to our sponsors - Rob Schaumer, DeveloperCube, eMoms at Home, Thrive Web Marketing, Dave Taylor, Poker on a Mac, Information for Her Australia for Australian Women, The Blogging Times, bloglinkr and 451 Press (see below for the full list of prizes).
There’s still 3 more days to get your submissions in and join the fun. Just follow the procedure outlined here.
- The Three Amigos by Scott
- Haiku #35: Consoles Reviewed by Tim
- The Top Five 2006 Money Topics on Free Money Finance by FMF
- Top 10 Sports Predictions for 2007 by Aaron
- Why People Hate Lawyers - Just Read their Blogs! by Andrew
- Why We’ll Fork Over $15.00 to Hear Britney’s New CD in 2007 by Roberta
- Predictions for 2007 by Jason
- Why I Won “Time’s Person of the Year” by Sarakastic
- 2006 Web Wrap-Up by Robert
- Creative Ideas for Business Games by Anna
- To Think a Lost Cell Phone Started it all by Mama Duck
- Looking Ahead in Homebrewing by Rob Zazueta’s Brew Blog
- Growing My Mind and Options by Deb/Jersey Girl
- The Year Ahead is What Looms by Colin
- The Rapper Cook’s Preview Into Her 2007 Menu by SimCooks
- Lessons Learned in 2006 by Basil
- 5 biggest mistakes in heart rate monitor training by Jesper
- The Five Biggest Movie Gambles of 2007 by Dave
- Whats the year going to bring by Marcus
- Reviews and Predictions from a Canadian Problogger by David
- I see the future and it is good by Captain Hops
- A History of My Preaching Websites and Plans for Future by Sherman
- The Year of the Client by Carolyn
- 2007 Prediction: Blogs will be replaced by Joshua
- Creating a Logo by Pawel
- 11 reasons why 2007 will be the year for plus size fashion by Glen
- New Year’s Resolutions For Bloggers by Domtan
- Reflections… without a mirror by Sarah
- Nostradamus’ take on Gardening by Stuart
- 2007 Psychic Predictions by Matt
- Sneak Peek : Top News Stories of 2007 by Xaymaca
- Blogs aren’t the story in 07! by Ted
- Looking back to look ahead by Rod
- 10 Reasons to Choose a Russian Blue by Simonne
- Reflections on a Self Made Blogger by Tyler
- Review of 10 best blogs for me in 2006 & why by nakedpastor
- Looking Back and Looking Forward by Simba’s Mom
- 5 Technology Discoveries That Changed My Business in 2006 by Desiree Scales
- The Google Maps API: Predictions for 2007 by Cameron
- What I expect from the 2007 Chicago Cubs Starting Pitchers by Joe
- Reviews and Predictions by Doug Karr
- A Preview of What to Expect tfrom bloglinkr by Michael
- Motorsports Predictions from The Garage by Gary
- 7 predictions for ‘07 by Brandon
- Monetize This by Ken
- The Year That Was - For Digital Film Makers by Jason
- 2006: Revelation of a Video Games Blogger by Patrick
- The Biggest Blogging Mistake I Made In 2006 by George
- Qigong is the New Yoga by Martial Development
- Hopes for a More Conservative 2007 by Adam
- Thanks For Making My Year by Kamal
- Personal Review 2006 by Tony
- Incursion into the Blogosphere - A Post Fairy Tale by Yan
- 7 Things I Learned Since Becoming An Web Entrepreneur by Griffen
- The Top Headlines of 2007 by Stefan
Thanks to everyone who has participated in Day 1. Looking forward to seeing tomorrow’s batch.
Now as promised - here’s the prize list to inspire you to enter!
The Prizes
- DeveloperCube - a forum for web developers - is offering a $100 Amazon gift voucher.
- eMoms at Home is offering two free passes (worth $349 each) to a 12 week group coaching program that she’s running in January. The course (via phone) is about how to be more productive and build a business. Read more on it here.
- bloglinkr is offering $100 cash or $500 in advertising credit on their service when they launch in the first quarter of 2007. bloglinkr is a new ad network exclusively for blogs and sounds like an interesting project to watch in the next few months.
- Thrive Web Marketing are offering a medium level webhosting package for a year that includes 100MB of webspace, 4000MB data transfer a month and more (worth $240).
- Rob Schaumer is offering a $100 gift card (of the winners choice) at GiftCertificates.com.
- The Blogging Times has offered $100 cash to their winner. Thanks to Minic for this prize.
- Information for Her Australia for Australian Women is offering $100 cash (via PayPal). This is a site for Australian women giving information on health issues, rural women, indigenous women and more.
- Poker on a Mac (a poker site for Mac users) is offering a 30gb video ipod to their winner.
- Dave Taylor from Ask Dave Taylor Tech Support and The Intuitive Life Business Blog is offering a copy of his book ‘Growing Your Business with Google‘ and $100 cash as his prize.
- 451 Press is offering one lucky winner a Nintendo Wii (worth $250). 451 Press is a blog network.



16 Responses to “Group Writing Project - Day 1”
Tiny Dancer: A Year in Pictures at Littlemummy.Com
December 19th, 2006 9:40 pm
[…] Entered into problogger’s group writing project ‘reviews and predictions’. *Erin: if we win a prize feel free to request your pocket money bonus […]
Scott Howard
December 19th, 2006 10:51 pm
Wow, I made the first submission. Are the submissions posted in the order they where submitted? I think it will be interesting to see if there is more participants this time over the last project due to the holidays.
Darren Rowse
December 19th, 2006 11:16 pm
they are pretty much in the order they were received in.
jhay
December 20th, 2006 12:44 am
I just submitted mine. A lot interesting posts on the day 1 already. This would be a fun weekend of bloghopping.
Roberta
December 20th, 2006 1:01 am
This was a fun project… I agree with jhay, this week I’ll be bloghopping. I’ve already found some interesting sites just from the first round.
Yan
December 20th, 2006 1:29 am
Cool… thnx Darren! This is the first time that I’m being listed on another site! I had really fun writing about a post for this group writing project.
Hope you come up with brilliant ideas like this!
Eliza
December 20th, 2006 3:04 am
I’m loving this list and have even commented on a few. I can’t wait to read the next group. Are ya only posting them once a day?
LearningNerd
December 20th, 2006 4:42 am
Wow, I can’t believe how many there are already! I’ll try to make it into the next group. Great posts, everyone!
worshippl.us » Blog Archive » Preaching, Unicycle, Broken Ankle, and Swearing
December 20th, 2006 6:29 am
[…] This article was submitted to Darren at Problogger’s Group Writing Project. […]
engtech
December 20th, 2006 9:09 am
I decided to write about something that might be of interests to bloggers in the audience, and go through all the mistakes I’ve made since I started blogging.
I’ve already sent it via the comment form, but I thought some people might like a sneak peak:
How NOT to be a successful blogger
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/you-can-be-a-good-example-or-a-horrible-warning-how-not-to-be-a-successful-blogger/
Jason Hooker
December 20th, 2006 11:25 am
I always look forward to your group writing projects. And this one is a cracker (Christmas cracker?).
Thanks Darren!
Fab 5 on Friday - 12/22/06 - Balanced Life Center
December 22nd, 2006 12:45 pm
[…] Darren hosted his group writing project this week, the theme - reviews and predictions. I submitted the post, 2007: From Productivity to Possibilities. This week’s Fab 5 comes from the list that’s topping over 200 with another day to go. […]
A Baker’s Dozen of Reviews and Predictions at Confessions of an Infomaniac
December 23rd, 2006 10:27 am
[…] For those unfamiliar with the project and are interested in browsing a really great variety of blogs check out Darren’s daily list of submissions Group Writing Project - Day 1, More Reviews and Predictions - Group Writing Project Day 2, Reviews and Predictions Project - Day 3, Reviews and Predictions Project - Final Reader Submissions and Group Writing Project Winners. […]
Spreading Link-Love at Madhur Kapoor’s Blog
December 24th, 2006 12:54 am
[…] It was a great fun reading through all the entries ….If you want to view all the entries just visit Day 1 , Day 2 , Day 3 , Day 4 . […]
Dustin
December 28th, 2006 4:37 am
Quite an interesting idea.
Building Relationships With Bloggers » Expert Idiot
December 29th, 2006 4:52 am
[…] While going over the entries for the wildly successful group writing project started by Darren Rowse, I came across an article title The Biggest Blogging Mistake I Made In 2006. Obviously, getting ready to launch this site I was very interested to see what this mistake was and was surprised to see that it was a very simple thing to accomplish, yet easily forget: Not Building Strong Relationships With Other Bloggers. […]
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