#AtoZChallenge 2022 Reflections and Winner Badges

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And GIF! For the animated crowd.



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Time to reflect on the 2022 A to Z Challenge and visit and comment on each other's reflection posts. 

Here are some ideas to help you write it:

• Give consideration to how the A to Z Challenge impacted your blog.
• View your stats to see how the last 30 days changed your blog view numbers.
• Make an observation about how many comments you got on your April posts.
• Contemplate what you learned from making posts during the Challenge.
• What gave you the idea for your Challenge Theme, if you used one?
• Did any blogs you visited in the Challenge make a lasting impression on you?
• Perhaps meditate on how to express your thoughts about the Challenge this year.
• Give an opinion on any of the three #AZchat events from this year.
• What impact did the Challenge have on your social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram)?
• Rumination about the A to Z Challenge can help the team improve!
• This year included a deliberation to find another graphic person after the loss of Jeremy. Muse about the imagination and talent of Anjela.
• What is your impression of the A to Z Team?
• After much cogitation, let your pensiveness reflect in your post.
• Did any dreams or goals you set come to fruition during this April Challenge?
• Please tell everyone if you picked up any sweet merchandise this year.

The A to Z team would LOVE to know your thoughts on NEXT YEAR! 

What needs to change?

What should stay the same?

What theme do you think we'll use?

Comment here, hit up our social media, or put it in your reflection post. 

Remember to post and sign up before May 7 to be included!

Reflections Sign Up Form
https://forms.gle/bcQ3vjPsK7cBMWmT9

Reflections list 

Visit each other and comment, please!
Make a copy for yourself to keep track of which blogs you have visited. 
If you take a copy before May 7, be sure to check back so you get all the entries! 
https://tinyurl.com/AZRef22

CLOSES ON MAY 7!!! 

Twitter and Instagram chat:

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=%23AZchat+on+Twitter+and+Instagram&iso=20220503T01&p1=211&am=30

Don't forget! 🤔💡

The ROADTRIP sign-up is May 16. 

That's when you'll tell us what post you made this year that you hope more of us will see later.

Tell us your favorite post you made during the 2022 Challenge. Or the one you'd like to see get more comments. Or the post you feel will net the most permanent followers to your blog.

Start thinking about which you'll choose when that opens on MAY 16.    



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File, Make a Copy of the Master List for yourself! Click this:
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Be sure your copy has all 234 bloggers who were in the 2022 challenge. Hopping to other blogs to leave comments was half of the challenge!

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Checklist: Are you READY for the BIG DAY? #atozchallenge 4/1/2014

You've signed up on the list.  You've maybe written some posts.  Maybe you have a theme, but are you REALLY ready for Tuesday, April 1, 2014 when the biggest blogging event of the year will begin?  Here's a checklist so you can be sure.

1) You might have heard this before, but you HAVE TO TURN OFF CAPTCHA, aka WORD VERIFICATION aka PROVE YOU'RE NOT A ROBOT.  You really don't need that "keep out" sign. (If you're worried about spam, disabling anonymous comments is the best defense, and you can also you use comment moderation.)

If you don't know how to turn it off, there's a video in the FAQ to help you.

2) Do you have a way for visitors to follow your blog? 
You can use Google Friend Connect (GFC), follow by email, follow by RSS feed, or all three.  We recommend that you have at least one if not all three options available for guests to be able to come read more, or look at your great photos, or listen to your creative songs, or learn your awesome craft ideas.  You do want more followers, right?

3) Have you cleaned up your sidebar?  (I need to...egads, it's cluttered...) What I mean is, do you have your sidebar in a logical order?  How to follow you (see #2) should be near the top, if not THE top item. Arrange the rest of your items in the order of importance ~ what do you want people to know about you and your blog.  Some may not scroll all the way to the bottom, so put the important "stuff" at the top.

4) Do you have your participant badge displayed?  I'm talking about this one, found in the banners/badges tab above:

I know some of you have very legitimate reasons for not displaying it, and we're not forcing anyone to have it up. However, here are some reasons why it's to YOUR advantage to have it in your sidebar, and I suggest placing it right under your follower widget of choice.

* visitors know right away that you're participating

* if you put it up NOW it's advertising and we get more participants

* you avoid a reminder email from one of the co-hosts or one of the minions to please display your badge (which saves us work and we'd really appreciate that)

5) Do you know where the sign-up list is?  I suggest having it open in your browser all day so that it's easy to visit someone when you have just a few minutes.  All of those add up, and pretty soon you've been to more than the suggested 5 blogs immediately following your number on the list.  That will bring you more visitors!  This is the sign-up list.

6) Do you know what to do once you've put your first post up?  A lot of people have been asking.  The quick answer is: you've already signed up on the list I linked in #5, you don't have to link up each day.  However, here's what you should do to insure success:

* advertise your post using your other social media outlets of choice

* if Twitter is one of those, include the #atozchallenge hashtag

* for those of you on facebook, get active with the A-Z facebook page by visiting it daily to see what's going on, liking comments, adding your own.  Doing so will bring more visibility to your blog, and more visitors.

* if you include an image, others can pin your post on Pinterest

* make sure you're visiting others.  If you visit, they will come.  If you sit there, they will not.  Your success, your connections with others, your increase in friends and exposure all depends on YOU.  If you invest the time to make the first move, it WILL pay off.

* the more you get yourself out there, the more you will get out of this adventure

Yes, most of this has been said before.  It's worth repeating though.  The A to Z Team's goal is for this be a rewarding experience for you, and we really do care about you.  We may not be able to read all of your posts...but we want you to succeed.

Questions?  Contact Us tab is right up there.

~Tina, on behalf of the A to Z Team

P.S Got some new info this morning.  Be sure to read Ida's comment below. It has other following suggestions and shows you how to fix GFC if you're having problems with it.  Thanks, Ida!