Progress

We now how a rough indicator of how much progress people have made in 23 Things. There is a chart here; those of you playing along at home will need a staff wiki log-in to see it.

Today I wanted to acknowledge that there is a huge variation in how easy people have found the tasks and the effort that they have had to put in. For some, setting up a blog has taken hours of work, and that's before making a single post. For others - well, some people had already done most of the things in the program anyway. Setting up a blog on Blogger could take as little as a couple of minutes if you already knew what you were doing.

I think the program is aimed at that former group - those who haven't used a blog before, or feeds, or other online tools. I don't want anybody doing 23 Things to feel 'left behind' because they haven't figured out how to do something in an hour, when it took their colleague five minutes. Hopefully, people can get help from each other, rather than wondering where to get started. If anyone has other suggestions for encouraging those have more difficulty, please do comment.

I have read everyone's blog and commented on a few, and some of them are very interesting. It's also good to see we have some Doctor Who fans!

A word of encouragement

Before 23 Things started I hadn't used an image generator at all, but it has been one of the most popular tasks in the program, probably because it's something very visual that we could demonstrate when we were showing people 23 Things.



For this image I used the excellent and very classy ICanHasCheezBurger Factory. I used a photo I found on Flickr by Lazy Lightning, who kindly licensed their photo to allow adapted works.