Kamigoroshi’s “Footsteps in the Mirror” post on the three year anniversary of the blog made me think long and hard about how we use our blog’s scorecard to measure our blogging success:
…that got me all nostalgic and I ended up going through my own archives and as it turns out…Footsteps in the Mirror had it’s birthday…yesterday. I didn’t even know about and why would I? It’s not like I’m big on birthdays anyway…
Anyway, there was something I was meant to do a while back when I hit my 1000th post but never got a chance to do it with so many things happening in my life all at once. Seeing this is supposed to be a special occasion for my blog, this is as better time than any to do that challenge and up the ante a bit.
To celebrate his blog’s birthday this year, the KamiCast – Happy Four Years Of Blogging is a podcast, showing how blogging has moved from just words on a page to the voice telling the story, another sign of a blog’s growth and evolution.
When I started blogging, I thought, as all people thought in those days, that blogging is just a way to recording the past. Nobody could have foreseen how big blogging would become today. All we did back then was use it the best way we knew how, whether it be wiping off dirt and putting it on a silver platter, blogs gave people like me a way to record a moment in time that I didn’t want to forget. Moments in time that make me the person that I am now.
Whether it is the birthday of your blog or not, everyone takes stock once in a while to see how they are doing and what they have done.
Kamigoroshi’s scorecard was the milestone of 1000 posts blogging across three years. That’s quite an accomplishment. That’s just over one blog post per day.
Did you just check your blog post count? Did you just stop to think about how long you have been blogging and how many posts you have done in that time period? Did you check other statistics on your blog to see how you compare?
The fascinating thing with birthdays, holidays, and other notable scorecard triggers is that when they happen to other people, it triggers a response to stop and think about ourselves and our accomplishments. We compare our accomplishments and scores against others. How many posts have you done in the past 3 years, 3 months, or 3 weeks?
We measure our accomplishments on our blogs in many different ways. For some, it’s the daily, weekly, or monthly web traffic statistics. How many visitors have stopped by? For others, it’s the measure of consistent and returning readership that scores our blog’s success.
Many thrive on sudden bursts of fame such as being dugg by Digg, or linked to by Wired, Engadget, or other big traffic driving blogs.
Some count comments. Others count comment spam.
What are the scorecards you use on your blog to measure your own blogging milestones? What are your blogging milestones?
Lorelle VanFossen blogs about blogging and WordPress on Lorelle on WordPress.
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