A significant personal blogging milestone has just passed. I am now officially blogging for five years.
If I had known then, that I’d still be at it five years on, I think I would have tried to make my first post a little more insightful, humorous and clever. Good lesson for life there.
It’s interesting to look back over the intervening five years from a personal, PR and online perspective.
A lot has changed and a lot hasn’t.
I note that between the ages of five and six a child should be able:
To learn to distinguish between reality and fantasy.
I think that’s a fine developmental goal for a PR blogger also.
I invested a massive amount of personal time in blogging for the first few years, then due to growing work and family commitments throttled back. I think I’ve now found a happy medium. I post enough to keep my hand in, but not enough to become a D-list blogger.
It’s a nice place. I haven’t even checked my visitor number in a year. Now that’s maturity (or laziness).
Some observations:
- Blogging did take off after all – and there’s still a lot of potential
- Other tools have taken much longer – we’re still waiting on RSS
- There are now over 600 PR bloggers! When I started there were three [Richard, Phil and Jim]
- There’s far more exciting things happening online today – from a tool perspective – than there was five years ago
- We’re on a long journey and we’ve barely started
Here’s to another five years….
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