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What You Learned In 2006 – Group Writing Project

For my last group writing project in 2006 I asked the question, “What did you learn in 2006?”

Anyone could participate by writing a post on their blog answering that question. In return I gave away some great prizes and donated $5 to charity for each post.

We ended up with 70 posts (a few are my own), and Shawn Hessinger wrote 11 on his own!

I was truly inspired and pleased with the results. It was my most successful group writing project yet, and the value of what people learned in 2006, when shared with everyone, is awesome.

Here’s the full list of posts. Please enjoy, follow these bloggers, get inspired and link around like crazy…

  1. You Never Know Who You’ll Meet by Ben Yoskovitz
  2. I Need To Stop Changing My Mind by David Maister
  3. 2006: What Did I Learn? by Andrew Garrett
  4. What I Learned This Year by Karen Wallace
  5. What I Learned This Year by Sarah
  6. What I Learned in 2006 by Heidi Miller
  7. Finding Opportunities For Big Success Is Easy by Ben Yoskovitz
  8. The Power of the Blogging Community by Char
  9. What I Learned – The Perfect Job Will Find You by Andrew Flusche
  10. Business 101: Teaching Myself Entrepreneurship by SVB
  11. How Do You Build Communities by Vernon Lun
  12. 10 Things I Learned This Year
  13. 5 Things I Learned About Blogging in 2006 by Eliza
  14. Turns Out This Whole Learning From Experience Thing Actually Works by John Ounpuu
  15. What I Learned in 2006 by Zorak
  16. What I Learned This Year, 2006 by Lance Turner
  17. Teachings I Was Given in 2006 by Terri Fitzgerald
  18. 3 Business Rules to Live By by Ben Yoskovitz
  19. What I Learned in 2006 by Robert Hruzek
  20. What Did I Learn This Year? by Michael Stammer
  21. Lesson #1: I Am an Entrepreneur by Shawn Hessinger
  22. What I Learned This Year by Katelyn Thomas
  23. What I Learned This Year by Paul Merrill
  24. Annual Self-Analysis by Carolyn Manning
  25. Writing a Book is JUST the Beginning by Ted Demopoulos
  26. What 2006 Has Taught Me by Robert
  27. Viral Blog Stuff – What I Learned
  28. What I Have Learned by Jon Swanson
  29. How Do You Measure Success?
  30. Contributing to the Blogosphere
  31. The Beauty of Networking by Renee
  32. 2006 : What Did I Learn? by Sashidhar Kokku
  33. Four Things I Learned This Year by Rick Cockrum
  34. 5 Little Things and 1 Big Thing I Learned This Year by Tony D. Clark
  35. Life Lessons from 2006 by Chris Cree
  36. What I Learned at Law School This Year by TopLawStudent
  37. Lessons From The Crib by Anastasia Pryanikova
  38. 10 Keys I Learned in 2006 That Change What I’ll Do in 2007 by Dr. Ellen Weber
  39. What I Learned From Nature in 2006 by Robin McMaster
  40. 1 Big And 12 Little Things I Learned From Blogging This Year by Terry
  41. Moving On With The Lessons I Learned in 2006 by Emmanuel Olawutosin
  42. Lesson #2: Bootstrapping Is Where It’s At by Shawn Hessinger
  43. Lesson #3: Perfect Is The Enemy of Good Enough by Shawn Hessinger
  44. Lesson #4: Roll With The Punches
  45. What Did I Learn in 2006? by David Lambert
  46. Five Things 2006 Has Taught Me by Cody McKibben
  47. What I Learned Over The Last Year – Bloggers Are Awesome! by Kirsten Harrell
  48. Things I Learned in 2006 by Karen
  49. What I Learned by Jim Estill
  50. What We Learned This Year by Jonathan Karpfen
  51. Lesson From 2006 – Marketing Diversity by Miriam Schwab
  52. What I Learned in 2006 by Greg Balanko-Dickson
  53. Things I’ve Learned in 2006 by Carol Kirshner
  54. A Glimpse of What I Learned in 2006 by Francie Stirling
  55. 10 Things I Learned in 2006 by Sheila
  56. What I Learned by Jeff Kinsey
  57. Lesson #5: Use What You’ve Got by Shawn Hessinger
  58. Lesson #6: Get Yourself A Purple Cow by Shawn Hessinger
  59. Lesson #7: The Best Ideas Are Scalable by Shawn Hessinger
  60. Lesson #8: Take One Good Idea And Go Deep by Shawn Hessinger
  61. Lesson #9: Business Starts With The First Dollar by Shawn Hessinger
  62. Lesson #10: The Masses Don’t Buy Stuff Any More by Shawn Hessinger
  63. Learning The Lessons by Lorna Brewer
  64. 2006: The Year of Learning by Maria Palma
  65. What I Learned in 2006 by Pretty Vulcan
  66. What I Learned in 2006 by Monique Attinger
  67. A Lesson From 2006 by Mack Male
  68. 10 Things I Learned This Year by Adeolu Akinyemi
  69. Buzz Canuck’s 11 Lessons Learned in 2006 by Sean Moffitt
  70. Lesson #11: You May Not Need a Business Plan by Shawn Hessinger

In total we raised $350 for The Montreal Children’s Hospital.

Prizes were awarded as well. For all the details please check out my post on the prizes won.

Ben Yoskovitz

Founding Partner at Highline Beta, a hybrid venture studio and VC firm that works with large, ambitious companies to identify new areas of opportunity through internal and external innovation.

Previously I was VP Product at VarageSale and GoInstant (acq. $CRM), and Founding Partner at Year One Labs.

Angel investments include: Breather, Spoiler Alert, SendWithUs and others.

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