Join Me for Blog About 5 Things Week

by Ben Yoskovitz

A couple of weeks ago, inspired by Darren Rowse’s group writing project I ran a “How To” Week here at Instigator Blog. It was fun, but challenging, to focus on one style of post for the entire week and make sure I wasn’t cheating myself (or you!) into writing something that was less than a real “how to” in order to fit the theme.

And now I’m at it again. Not the cheating part, the writing part…

I’m declaring this Blog About 5 Things Week where each post will list 5 things. It could be any subject, and the 5 things won’t necessarily be a ranked list (i.e. top 5.)
Sample post ideas: “5 tips on…” or “5 ways to…” or “5 lessons about…”

“Things” is a fairly generic word, but apply it to something, write about 5 of ‘em and you’ve got it!

Please join me in this little experiment!

Go ahead and write “5 things” posts all week and link back here to let me know!

I hope you’ll give it a try, and tell your friends too! Even if you just write one or two posts, give it a go! I don’t have any amazing prizes, but I’ll link to you like crazy and we’ll have a grand time doing it…

In the spirit of Blog About 5 Things Week, here’s 5 reasons you should write a “5 Things” post:

  1. It’s a challenging way to work on your writing.
  2. It’s a great way to get some inbound links to your blog and make some new friends.
  3. List-style posts are quite popular, so with a bit of social bookmarking, the community’s help and some luck, we can generate explosive traffic numbers.
  4. Your community will appreciate it; they’ll get your valuable thoughts, insight and advice in neat little “5 things” packages.
  5. It’s tons of fun!

October 2nd, 2006
  • I have written a 5 things list for y'all. check it out here http://spongebob.wordpress.com/2006/10/03/5-mos...
  • Richard - thanks for participating. The post looks great!

    I'll be linking back to you shortly...
  • Hey! Conceptual artist and author damali ayo has been making "5 things" lists for a while now. You can check out "5 documentaries you need to watch" "5 things i am doing to reduce my impact on the environment" and more at http://damaliayo.com/pages/connected.htm
    and also on her myspace blog, http://blog.myspace.com/damaliayocds where you can leave suggestions for other lists for damali to write up!

    Enjoy!
    Heather Day,
    Assistant to damali ayo
  • 1. When you fall on your face, get up, shake it off, and keep going. But make a note to not repeat the same mistake that caused you to fall on your face the first time.

    http://blog.myspace.com/damaliayocds Linked back to instigator!
  • Heather - thanks for the comment. It was stuck in moderation and just saw it now.

    I've linked to Damali's MySpace blog - the link will be live soon. Glad to see there's more people out there doing "lists of 5"!
  • Nice Idea. I joined you, but I don't know if my 5 Things Week is really that interesting. Happy Wekend.
  • Manzkee - thanks for joining. I'll be adding a link to your site soon, in the next batch of 5 posts by others for Blog About 5 Things Week.

    I hope you'll keep visiting and contributing at Instigator Blog!
  • Here's my 5 latest post: Round Up. Thanks and congrats for the success of this idea.
  • What a great idea! I'm going to go home and do this when I can... erm.. when I remember.. if I remember. I'm sure I'll remember.

    Now to think of five things...Any suggestions? I'm new to blogging... and this will be fun. :)
  • Hi Yuriko - welcome to Instigator Blog and blogging.

    This was an older project I did in 2006 but you're welcome to participate if it helps you come up with great blog content.
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