One year of Blogging ~ Thank you Readers!
Today is my one year anniversary of blogging on JeffWoelker.com. Oh how the time flies. I began this blog mostly as a knowledge repository for myself. I was sending out links each day to my co-workers and family and wanted a better way to aggregate my thoughts and opinions, and so this blog was born.
As the months past, I realized what a great PR tool this could be for myself and, to all of you thinking of setting up a blog or trying to get an online presence, it can definitely work to your advantage. As a result, I’ve met a lot of great people both online and off who have enjoyed my posts and lent some great commentary on some of the more random topics here. I’ve also learned the power of blog spam and was almost to a point of shutting comments down all together, if not for Akismet.
The most popular post I’ve ever written is still 30 mpg is Laughable ~ US Auto Makers are Joking, right? I had just seen this Chrysler ad and thought 30 mpg doesn’t really seem like a lot. What were we, as consumers, getting 80 or 100 years ago? Well, the result crashed my site for a few hours and made it slow for 2 days straight as it sat on the homepage of Digg. To see more of what that whole experience taught me, check out my Digg analysis.
The power of blogging is immense and can have a very beneficial effect on your professional and personal lives. As part of my job, I’m often asked for my opinion about one technology or another, and this only helps to condense my thoughts into a coherent idea.
And finally, thank you again to all my readers. Actually, I know of only a handful of people that regularly read my blog, but my feedburner stats tell me that I have between 25 and 30 people reading this blog regularly. So all of you anonymous readers, why do you read my blog? Where are you from? What else would you like to see covered here? Let me know in the comments.
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