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For the last few days I’ve left the daily prompts and moved out into the blogosphere on my own, embracing the mission to visit new and familiar cyber homes, read conversations, especially comment challenge conversations and add something from me before I leave.

That’s a true contrast with my early blogging/commenting days, when I first created my blog lines, added interesting blogs and began clicking them open, skimming a bit and promising myself I’d return to read more deeply and leave a comment. I never returned to those posts. I think I was just getting my feet wet, slowly.

That was a long time ago, probably more than a year ago. Instead, I spent time working on specific collaborations, writing my own posts and getting connected to a small group of friends. The key seems to be SLOWLY. I marveled at the speed with which my buddy Kevin seemed to jump in and move so quickly.

Boiling Down my Week Challenge began the sharing with a group and commenting generally to host of the week.

The Slice of Life Challenge brought me to a larger group of bloggers to get to know. To read their slices, to be read, to get comments, to leave comments.

For the Comment Challenge I have been really thinking deeply about commenting, exploring new blogs, returning for more, and looking in my backyard into blogs on the other side of the fence: twitterers and boilers.

Slowly I have been getting familiar with new blogs and  more comfortable  with blogs I know, leaving longer comments and finding opportunities to join conversations. On my blog I’ve responding more, asking questions to build on the conversation and just being more considerate of  visitors.

It’s been a great month. What’s the next challenge???

Bonnie