One of our blogging friends here in Vancouver, InspirationBit, alerted us to a group writing project about blogging goals for 2008. What a great idea! So Carol and I sat down and came up with … tada! Five goals for 2008.

  1. Look at at least 10 ways of blog monetization and implement at least three. One possible way would be e-books, another courses (we could leverage the fact that Carol has experience with running a continuous educationpeople cheering department and Isabella has a Masters Degree in distance education). And of course we’ll also see how we can adapt what John Chow of “Make Money Online” fame and infamy has to say. One thing we’re really interested in is ethical monetization. (I know some think that learning from John Chow and ethical monetization are mutually exclusive – we’re happy to engage in a conversation about that)
  2. Have an Alphablog video series launched by January 31
  3. Put together a mission statement for the blog by January 15. Yes, that may mean that some of these goals may be revised – but that’s ok. At least we’ve made a start and pinned down some ideas.
  4. Make a meaningful contribution through social media. We’d like to research and find ways to meaningfully enrich social media – not just for business purposes. We don’t want to be part of the machine that steals the social from social media. We want to be part of the new economy that’s emerging through the internet.
  5. Grow Canada 9-5 into an influential go-to for Canadian businesses bloggers. First thing to do: create a badge for it for the next edition on January 18.

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