After some hesitation, I decided to install the Flock browser. Why Flock?

Ed Dale of the 30 Day Challenge has made Flock the official browser of the 30 Day Challenge. Last year the 30 DC used the Firefox browser. Last year because of the 30 DC I went from Internet Explorer to Firefox.

I grew to love Firefox, and if you have used Firefox you know it is much better than IE. So, moving from Firefox to Flock made me a little uneasy – but I have done it!

Flock is built on the same platform as Firefox so I was hoping all of my favorite Firefox features would be in Flock.

The Flock installation went well, and it tries to import all of your bookmarks, and history. It did that well, but I was hoping it would also import my Firefox customized toolbars and my Firefox extensions. It didn’t import my toolbars or Firefox extensions which was disappointing.

I had to go through and install my favorite extensions and toolbars into Flock. The good news is, it appears most of the Firefox extensions also work in Flock.

So what makes Flock different than Firefox? Flock calls itself the Social Web Browser, and it is! After watching the introductory videos, I was impressed with what you can easily do with Flock.

If you’re curious about Flock, you can watch the post install videos to get an idea of what Flock is all about.

http://www.flock.com/getting-started/1.2.1/en-US/

What I have found, so far, that is really great about Flock is how you can use it to monitor your Web 2.0 account. Flock integrates with some of the most popular Web 2.0 platforms like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Digg and Del.icio.us.

Was your Web 2.0 service account is integrated with Flock, it allows you to easily check those accounts from you browser sidebar.

I am somewhat disappointed that Flock has not included FriendFeed, but hopefully they will add it soon.

One thing that really disappoints me about Flock, is that it doesn’t appear to have the Session Manager that Firefox had. The Firefox Session Manager was my favorite feature of Firefox.

After doing a Google search, there appears to be extensions for Flock that perform the same function as the Firefox session manager. It appears some have been having some problems with this extension, so I will wait on this and hope I can find a good session manager for Flock.

For the most part, I do like Flock. Firefox was starting to give me some problems. It seemed to periodically just start eating up memory and would go “out to lunch” sometimes. I would have to go into task manager and shut it down, or reboot to free up resources.

So far, Flock is using less memory and seems to function very well. For me, it seems to be more responsive than Firefox.

So Flock, give me a session manager and I will be the happiest of Flock users Until then, I will have to use both browsers.

I look forward to leaning more about what Flock can do in my Web 2.0 world. If you are interested in learning more about how Flock can help you, or learn more about the Web 2.0 world, I suggest you get signed up with the 30 Day Challenge.

If you are a beginning online marketer, you will love the 30 DC. If you already have a lot if IM experience, I guarantee you will learn some things you need to know. In any case the only thing it will cost you is time.

Plus, I want you to be part of my 30 DC team. I want to help you, or maybe you can help me

I don’t really care how much, or how little, internet marketing experience you have, since we all have unique gifts and talents we can bring into the team.

Just get signed up for the 30 DC here, and then let me know you want to be part of the team. So, here is what you need to do:

1. Sign Up for the 30 Day Challenge

2. Let me know you want to be part of the team by adding a comment to this post.

3. Get signed up with Twitter

4. Follow me on Twitter

5. Let me know if you need help by using my Helpdesk – be sure to choose the 30 Day Challenge department.

I look forward to working with you and getting to know you!

It’s almost time for the second year of the 30 Day Challenge

For those of you who haven’t experienced the phenomenon of the FREE 30 Day Challenge, let me give you a little history lesson.

A couple of Aussies, Ed Dale and Dan Raine, decided to put together a training course on how to make money from home using the internet. The idea was, they were going to give you training, ideas and tools to help you make a minimum of $10 in 30 days.

I don’t know how I ran into the 30 Day Challenge last year, but I decided to join. I had already had quite a bit of internet marketing experience prior the 30 DC, but their “challenge” was intriguing, so I joined.

The training was some of the best free training I have ever had online. Most of the training was done via podcasts and videos.

We were taken through the process of identifying and testing niches that might prove to be profitable. Their simple plan made the most sense of anything I had previously tried to identify niches. I still use their techniques almost a year later.

We were then taught how to create quality content (you must have quality content to succeed online), taught how to create free content sites, and taught how to get traffic to those sites for free.

Another highlight for me was learning more about social networking – web 2.0 stuff. Ed Dale of the 30 Day Challenge probably knows more about social networking that anyone else I know.

You may have heard of this web 2.0 tool called Twitter? If you haven’t heard of Twitter your internet marketing education is lacking, and you definitely need the 30 Day Challenge. Ed introduced us to Twitter almost a year ago, before it became the “talk of the town” that it is today.

The 30 Day Challenge exploded – I know Ed and Dan were blown away on how fast the 30 DC grew. In fact the explosive growth caused a few problems for 30 DC participants, like the Tumblr thing.

What’s even more amazing is that people are still joining the 30 DC, and going through the training program (It’s still online) almost a year later. And, I know Ed and Dale aren’t even promoting it.

The 30 Day Challenge became so popular because of the quality of training that was provided. No matter how much, or how little, internet experience people had going into the 30 DC, I’m sure most learned a great deal.

So, I’m getting ready for the next 30 Day Challenge. Pre-Season starts June 1st, and I want you to join us.

One thing that is really great about the 30 DC is you are encouraged to work in small teams. So, I want to put together a team, and help my team members as much as I can.

Ultimately, I would like to find a group of people who would like to form long term business relationships in the internet marketing arena.

I don’t really care how much, or how little, internet marketing experience you have, since we all have unique gifts and talents we can bring into the team.

Just get signed up for the 30 DC here, and then let me know you want to be part of the team. So, here is what you need to do:

1. Sign Up for the 30 Day Challenge

2. Let me know you want to be part of the team by adding a comment to this post.

3. Get signed up with Twitter

4. Follow me on Twitter

5. Let me know if you need help by using my Helpdesk – be sure to choose the 30 Day Challenge department.

I look forward to working with you and getting to know you!

Mike