Celebrating… my first blog-o-versary!
My first post was on March 23, 2012. A year ago, I was concerned that I wouldn’t have anything to blog about. Surprisingly, my biggest challenge has been trying to blog less frequently!
Looking Backwards
What’s worth celebrating? Here are a few milestones from the past year.
- 1 new job at Innovation Network
- 2 podcasts
- 3-hour eStudy about dashboard automation
- 4 conference presentations at EERS and AEA
- 45 Excel tutorials
- 99 blog posts (67 from me on this blog; 8 on other blogs; plus 24 guest posts from 14 different colleagues)
- 1,000+ tweets at @annkemery
- 21,000+ blog views
- 1,000,000+ numbers crunched
- Infinite connections with colleagues in the evaluation blogosphere
Looking Forwards
What’s to come in the next year?
- More data visualization challenges. The first challenge was overwhelmingly popular. I’ll start with beginner-level challenges and work up to harder ones.
- More Excel tutorials. I may add R tutorials later in the year.
- More hands-on tips about surveys, dashboards, interviews, and focus groups. This bank of focus group questions, these ideas for interactive focus groups, and this comparison between focus group and meeting facilitation are some of the most popular posts. Stay tuned for more like these!
- More posts about potent presentations
- More guest posts
Thanks for reading! I’m glad I started blogging, and my only regret is that I didn’t start sooner. I hope to see many more evaluation blogs emerge over the next year.
Sheila B Robinson, Ed. D
Mar 29, 2013 -
Happy Blog-o-versary!! Congratulations on developing a high quality, informative, and comprehensive site. I’ve very much enjoyed reading posts from you and your guest authors, and learning from your Excel tutorials. Many thanks for contributing your time and energy to the evaluation community and best wishes for Year 2!
Ann K. Emery
Apr 1, 2013 -
Thanks Sheila! Your ongoing support has been crucial. I especially appreciate your ideas for future Excel tutorials. Keep ’em coming!
Karen Anderson
Apr 1, 2013 -
Congrats Ann! I have enjoyed watching the evolution of your blog and your support of other bloggers and evaluators is just amazing! 🙂
Ann K. Emery
Apr 1, 2013 -
Thanks Karen! Your guest posts and your blog have really helped my blog find its way. I enjoy reading your insights about evaluation and look forward to (hopefully! fingers crossed!) co-presenting with you at the next AEA conference.
mocochran
Apr 3, 2013 -
Congratulations on the blog-o-versary! I can’t believe you’ve only been doing this for 1 year, you’re doing great!
Oz du Soleil
Apr 5, 2013 -
Much congrats to you! You’ve accomplished a lot and thanks for admitting that you started this with no idea that you had anything to share. You’ve done a lot! And I was honored to be a guest blogger on your site.
Keep it going!
Matt Shacklady
Apr 7, 2013 -
Congratulations on being one! Thanks for the round up post – as a new blogger it’s good to hear these tales.