The To Do Wish List Group Research Project

Last week I had a mini brainstorm as I longingly looked at my To Do list, wishing I had the time to research all of the great marketing ideas, site promotional tools, and fantastic free services that I simply don’t have the time to research.

Then the idea struck me.

I bet there are lots of other people who wanted to learn about these things too! Why don’t we take a mass ‘mastermind’ approach and just plain split up the work?

You guys liked the idea too. I was very happy about that.

The To Do Wish List Officially Launches

Here are the things that we all want to learn more about:

1. Putting together a Squidoo Lens
   1. Andrew Flusche on Building a Squidoo Lens
   2. Joanne on her Squidoo experience
2. Learning how to get somewhere on Reddit
3. Learning how to get somewhere on Furl
4. Learning how to get somewhere on BumpZee
   1. Steven Welton on BumpZee
5. Learning how to get somewhere on Newsvine
   1. Easton Ellsworth on Being a Good Newsvine User
6. Learning Stumbleupon start to finish
   1. Ponn’s Stumble Upon for Computer Dummies and StumbleUpon Addiction for Business Research
7. Building out a strong profile and socializing on MySpace, and why would someone want to do so?
8. Building out a strong profile and socializing on Wallop…
9. Building out a strong profile and socializing on CafeMom.com
   …
10. Creating a Google Toolbar icon to get gazillions of subscribers
    1. Dennis’ post on creating the Google Toolbar Icon
11. Taking the time to submit my best articles to the article submission sites
    1. Ponn on Article Submission Made Easy
12. Determine whether ads & affiliate marketing might reduce the value of my blog to my readers
13. Find a good way to find & offer to be a guest blogger
    1. FromProBlogger:
       How to be a Good Guest Blogger
       How to Get Guest Blogging Jobs
14. Compare phpBB2 and SMF to determine which would make a better forum
15. Learning to re-vamp my front page to show off my back catalogue better
16. Figuring out whether video is worth it
17. Social bookmarking and media strategy
18. Social bookmarking plugins
19. Conducting and recording weekly training conference calls
20. How to build a CafePress shop with some nice graphics/design
21. Favicon creation, setup and justification
    1. Jordan’s post on Favicons
    2. Char’s post on Favicons
22. Choosing and reading web stats packages
23. Setting up the Related Posts plugin
24. Theme switching systemization for WordPress
    1. Chris Gray on Theme Switching along with a newly developed plugin for it – how cool is THAT?!
25. SEO for specific keywords
26. Amazon affiliation (integration?) on WordPress
27. Customizing themes for usability
28. How to start Podcasting
29. 3D site buttons (esp. for RSS feeds)
    1. Shaz has two (1-2) tutorial suggestions for this:
30. Set up Google Webmaster Tools for a domain
31. How to write a press release
32. Make your own little search “addition” to the built in search in Internet Explorer 7 and FireFox?
    1. Asked and answered by Matt

The individuals who have expressed interest in participating are:

1. Hugh Hollowell
2. Jordan McCollum
3. Scott Davis
4. Sue Olson
5. Adam Kayce
6. Derek Semmler
7. Easton Ellsworth
8. Stephen Welton (?)
9. Dennis Bjørn Petersen
10. Neena
11. fo.unta.in
12. Nathania Johnson
13. Kim Dushinski
14. Delani
15. Chris Gray
16. Joe Cheray
17. Amanda (?)
18. David Airey
19. Lucy
20. Ponn Sabra
21. Me!
22. YOU!!!!!

So we have at least 19 people, 21 if the people I was unsure about decide they want to participate. And we have 31 28 (and counting) information requests. There was a lot of crossover between people who were offering to write on specific topics.

Claim a topic, do the research, write a post, fulfill a wish

Please jump in on the comments and claim a topic (also claim the topic number to keep things clear).

I really don’t care if some topics get more than one post, let’s just try to keep things as even as possible. Write your post this week by Friday Noon CDT (GMT-5 for you international folks). I’ll post a roundup with links to ALL of the posts written for the To Do Wish List Group Research Project Friday afternoon – giving you ALL Memorial Day Weekend to sit back and read, read, read!

I have had a post in my drafts for #17: Social bookmarking and media strategy for weeks, and it’s high time I completed it! So I call number 17!

PS: And thanks to Irish Eyes for the great dandelion photo! Use it!

PSS: If you want to join in, YOU ARE WELCOME TO DO SO! You can even add to our Wish List!!!

About Kelly McCausey

Kelly McCausey has been making money online doing the things she loves since 2002. Kelly is blogging and podcasting and helping others make their work at home dreams come true.