Happy Blogiversary to Me!
July 23, 2008
This blog is one year old today. It deserves some recognition and a bit of celebration, if for nothing else other than surviving and growing. Not much different than a human being.
People used to have shorter life spans, primarily because infant death was so prevalent. Now it’s blogs that don’t last. I don’t know how many abandoned blogs dot the blogosphere but a quick search yielded someone making money from ads on abandoned blogs, which sounds to me like putting orphans out to beg, a la Oliver Twist. The one piece of data I found measured blog life by any activity in the past 90 days (like a post). They gave the chance of survival at 50/50.
Survival is an organism’s first expression of power. It’s power that motivates me more than anything else – the power to make change for the better – so no wonder this mini-obsession with blog survival.
Having gotten through this first year with entries on leadership, including the political and economic, I plan to celebrate this blog’s “terrible twos” by talking about motivation in action – people at work. I’m going to start with the full disclosure of how to measure Quality of Hire using the universal metric.
It seems like the right gift to give a blog.
Entry Filed under: Assessment, HR, Innovation, Leadership, Metrics, Talent Management, Teams. Tags: Assessment, blogging, Metrics, motivation, Quality of Hire, work.
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Jonathan | July 24, 2008 at 10:35 am
Congrats to making it to your one year. As you point out, probably at least half of blogs don’t last that long. But how do you judge whether a blog has been successful, not just survived? In my experience, most people use the number or frequency of posts to judge performance. As I point out in http://alignment.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/blogging-performance-part-2/ (and more generally throughout my blog), I think metrics without objectives are useless and we all need to do a better job of articulating the mission for our blogs.
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Kevin Williams | July 25, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Happy Blogiversary!!
Keep it up and keep the content valuable. I hope to be able to add valuable responses in the coming year