Organizing Upcoming Reviews
Sometimes we don't know what we're reading next, sometimes we do. Either way it's good to be organized, especially if you receive books for review. Kate and I share a bunch of google documents that keep us organized when it comes to upcoming reviews. We have our Blog Calendar, a Review Books spreadsheet, and a Review Guide. And here's what we use them for:
*Blog Calendar: Keeping track of upcoming blog tours, features, interviews and other blog events.
*Review Books spreadsheet: A list of review books by month and whether we both have a copy, if they're e-books, and when they are due for publication.
*Review Guide: We use this each month to decide which books we want to try to get reviewed (mostly that are pubbed that month) and if we've read them, whether we both are going to read them and do a double review, etc.
Today, your mini-challenge is to work on organizing your upcoming reviews of books you haven't read. Create an organizer... update... reorganize. The choice is yours. We'd like to see what you do to organize and how you think you'd improve it. Kate and I will be working on updating our documents to coincide with what our future plans on reviewing-wise.
You can work on this mini-challenge today, tomorrow or any day during this Pick Your a Thon.
Update:
To give you guys an idea of our process, I have included two screen shots below.
The first is our Blog Calendar.
The second is our Review Book spreadsheet.
Personally, we prefer using Google Docs. It is simple to use. And we can share it, which helps a lot.
I'm curious about your review guide....is it a spreadsheet or word doc? I've tried spreadsheets, but can't seem to keep up. :(
ReplyDeleteWe use a Google Docs Spreadsheet. Sadly, it probably doesn't get updated like it should. But it does stay pretty current.
ReplyDeleteThe way that we usually keep ourselves on track with it is through IMM. Kristen and I have a calibration session usually weekly and tend to add stuff then. I will add a screen shot so you can see how ours looks. Let me know if you have any other questions!
haha, awesome to know I'm not alone in my love of spreadsheets to help me organize my life. You should see my marketing database, and my character creation charts--they're ridiculously huge documents, but at least I don't feel like I'm drowning anymore!
ReplyDeleteSmiles!
Lori