1. Running an Online Reading Challenge
Tricks of the trade for three different approaches

2. challenge: setup Started in 2007(?) with 5 teams, ~25 participants
Form teams (At least 3 people per team)
Challenge reading period: 3 months
Report what you read
Winners: Individual & Team (average) pages read

3. no prizes but pride

4. my job as show-runner Make it easy to participate
Encourage fun (have fun)
Provide stats to encourage competition
Share their reading discoveries

5. input options Build your own database Use a survey tool
Use an online library (LibraryThing, Goodreads)

6. byo database
MySQL Database + Form on your website

7. byo survey
Online survey tool (with export function)

11. library thing!

12. Logged In

13. “Add books”

14. “Add books” page

15. “Add to collections”

16. Select your name

17. Search for your book

18. ISBN probably easiest. Format (hardcover, paperback, ebook) not important to me.
Search results

19. Click on the title/author

20. It’s been added!

21. It’s been added!

22. Add tags

23. all the tags Age Group: Tweens, Teens, Adults Gender: Boys, Girls
Genre: Adventure, Chick Lit, Fantasy, Gentle/Christian, Graphic Novels, Historical, Horror/Paranormal, Issues, Literary, Mystery, Nonfiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Western
Our tags are subjective but still helpful

24. Likes, dislikes, read-alikes

25. To add more, search again
Duplicate ISBNs = OKAY
To add more, search again

26. See your team’s books

27. Select “All collections”

28. It’s all the books!

29. Page count needed

30. No page count. None.

31. Page count = pagination

32. Page count added

36. Running an Online Reading Challenge
Tricks of the trade for three different approaches