New Year's Resolutions and Other Goals

icons is hosting a Spring Friending Meme. Fill out the form and/or read other people's entries to find new friends.

This opportunity is useful to folks with goals like "make new friends" or "blog more often."

Here are a couple of community activity updates from soc_puppet:

moodthemeinayear is nearing its next break period! It begins on Wednesday. Following that break, the Minimum and Medium Tracks will reset, so it's a great time to jump on for anyone who wants a schedule to follow.

summerofthe69's amnesty period will end on Monday, with theme suggestions for 2025 set to open on Wednesday. Voting for themes will begin in May, so you have plenty of time to ponder theme suggestions.

MARCH META MATTERS CHALLENGE, CHECK-IN NO. 1 on marchmetamatterschallenge

Welcome to year 6 of the Meta Matters Challenge! I'm your moderator, yourlibrarian .

These posts will be used for us all to check-in with one another, offer encouragement and answers to questions, and maybe tips we come up with as we copy our work to other locations.


This challenge runs through the month of March. Visit the above post to introduce yourself and your goals.

snowflake_challenge is hosting its Friending Meme today. If you have a goal like "make new friends," "meet more people," or "find more blogs to read," then this is one of the best opportunities of the year to do such things on Dreamwidth. Use the template in that post to comment with your response.

You can also copy it onto your own blog, as I've done here. This provides a place for longer conversations if desired, so they don't clog up the main challenge, which typically runs hundreds of comments anyhow.

digitalminimalism has a thread about digitally minimal 2025 resolutions.

Check out the amazing math of 2025. 

The snowflake_challenge is coming! It runs January 1-31 with fun fannish challenges on alternating days. Many Dreamwidth fans post daily during this period to catch the extra traffic and make new friends.

Read "How to Hack the Snowflake Challenge" for ideas on planning ahead. Some challenges repeat every year or close to that, so you can do them early and just copy or link that on the relevant day. Among the things you can do in advance are:
-- Make sure you have a current introduction to use for reference in friending memes.
-- Update your fandom information in a blanket statement, profile, and/or sticky post.
-- Check that you have a fanwork ready to post.
-- Keep a list of your favorite fanworks to recommend, and a masterlist of your own to share.
-- Set some goals for the coming year.

EDIT 12/30/24: 2025 SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE INTRODUCTION!.

EDIT 12/31/24: 2025 SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE MASTER POST

EDIT 12/31/24: MEET THE MODS!

EDIT 12/31/24: 2025 SNOWFLAKE PROMO BANNERS





Are you planning to participate?

cosmolinguist has a good post about end-of-year phenomena.  It includes a link to this Tumblr post listing good New Year's resolutions, most of which are fun and whimsical.

icons is hosting a Friending Meme. Do you have a goal to expand your audience or connections? Come meet some new people!