Today, I celebrate my first year of blogging. When I started, I had an objective of writing at least one blog post per business day. Mission accomplished! I now have written close to 300 blog posts on a variety of local search and/or social media topics. I’ve met many new friends and blogging has become a very important part of my professional life. I currently have 416 RSS subscribers and I think I’ve found my blogging “voice”.
To celebrate, I take a look back at my top 5 blog posts that generated the most comments and trackbacks in the last year:
1) “Robert Scoble is Media“, July 14, 2007. By far my most popular blog post. I stumbled upon a major meme with “I am Media”. Lots of people have talked to me about that one and have told me they now understand Facebook because of it. If any book editors are reading, I think this could be a great business book… 🙂
2) “What Micro-Blogging is All About?“, September 13, 2007. Re-reading one of my favorite Douglas Coupland book, I found this excerpt which poetically describes what micro-blogging is potentially all about. Mashing-up Douglas Coupland with Web 2.0 earned me some great reactions.
3) “Google Opens an Office in Montreal“, January 25th, 2007. Major buzz in the Montreal blogosphere as I was the first blogger to discover that announcement in Montreal’s La Presse.
4) “Chronology of a Successful Facebook Group: The “Save Business 2.0″ Example“, July 19, 2007. Chronicling my efforts (with Colin Carmichael) to save Business 2.0 magazine using Facebook. That one was a lot of fun and offered some great learnings. We unfortunately did not save the magazine (I got my last issue today…)
5) “Web 2.0 Startup Praized Media Inc. Secures $1,000,000 in Seed Funding“, September 18, 2007. The announcement of our seed round of financing was welcomed by the local search blogosphere.
I’d like to start my second year of blogging by thanking all my Year 1 readers! Thanks and here’s to another 300 blog posts! 🙂
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Congrats on your first year, Seb! It’s been a pleasure to watch your little corner of the web develop and mature. The phrase “What it means:” has now become part of my internal thought process – not sure if I should thank you for that or not!
I also just got my last issue of B2.0… I’m prepared to take credit (with you, of course) for squeezing the October issue out of Time!
Congrats on your first year, Seb! It’s been a pleasure to watch your little corner of the web develop and mature. The phrase “What it means:” has now become part of my internal thought process – not sure if I should thank you for that or not!
I also just got my last issue of B2.0… I’m prepared to take credit (with you, of course) for squeezing the October issue out of Time!