Who Are My Readers?
December 5th, 2007 | Categories: blogs, marketing, networks, off topic
Good question. Apart from MyBlogLog users, I have no idea who reads my blog. Having said that, I am very keen on getting to know my readers. I truly appreciate all the comments, trackbacks, links, and e-mails. Nevertheless, there are still those who like to hang around the periphery and watch from a distance. I have no problem with that, but for this one post…
I would like all regular readers, as well as new visitors, to introduce themselves with a simple comment below. Just mention your name, how long you’ve been reading the blog, and what you do for a living. Heck, you can even mention your company or your pet’s name.
This is simple experiment to help us all get to know one another. It may also provide some added exposure for yourself or your company. So please be sure to drop a comment - even if it is very short. Thanks guys.
December 5th, 2007 at 8:59 am
Great suggestion, Aidan.
I am Jeffrey Keefer, an Instructional Designer / Adjunct Organizational Communication Instructor / Organizational Learning & Communication Consultant / Philosophy Aficionado living and working in New York City. I have read your blog for the last year, since meeting you at Northern Voice in February of 2007.
December 5th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Hi! I’m Laurie Bridges, a university business and economics librarian. I’m a blogger at http://infodoodads.com and I watch your blog for interesting tech/web ideas and posts that might interest librarians.
December 5th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Hi Aidan
I’m Anthony Norejko CEO of 510 Networks Inc
I’ve been reading the blog for about 7 months.
We just launched our new site http://www.tagiton.com
Obviously looking to get some input from the community, along with getting some exposure to our concept.
Thanks
Anthony
December 5th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Aidan,
I’m Dino Celotti, I am a UVic BCom Graduate. I am a development manager at Trilogy Properties Corporation, a real estate development company. I have been reading your blog for about 2 weeks now since i realized you were a contributor on TechVibes.
Ciao,
Dino
December 6th, 2007 at 3:34 am
Hi Aidan,
I’m a web developer from Holland, and have been reading your blog since July 8, when Read/Write web announced that you were one of two new writers for their site.
My name above this comment links to my personal blog, my company website is http://locusoptimus.com/ and my 3 fish and 2 birds don’t have names
I’m quite curious to see if many people will respond to this request of yours, as I’ve been thinking of doing the same thing on my own blog. I’ll keep checking back on this post to see how it goes
-
Els
December 6th, 2007 at 10:36 am
My name is Aaron Brazell, and I’m an alcoholic.
December 6th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Hi Aidan
We’ve known each other since Kindergarten, and still hang out on weekends. Although I sometimes find your blog informative, I mostly read it out of sympathy.
December 6th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Mark Evans, fellow Canadian tech blogger.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Hello, my name is Greg Bacon. I work at a The MathWorks and am involved with developing our community. I also have a blog, baconworks.com, and often wonder the same thing about readership. If your experiment is successful, I may try it out myself. ~Greg
December 6th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
This is Laurie again. After reviewing everyone’s comments, you might want to try something like a contest…I remember on the designsponge blog she did some type of small contest to get people to post. But, it was a year or so ago, and now I can’t remember anything about it.
December 8th, 2007 at 6:49 am
Hi, I’m Lexo Khubulava from Tbilisi, (former Soviet) Republic of Georgia. I run http://www.jobs.ge, the largest job search website in Georgia. I discovered your blog a month ago and since then I’ve been reading it with great interest. I’m mostly interested in Internet technology innovations and the ideas on how to improve and promote my online business and potentially start a new one.
Keep up good work!
Lexo
December 21st, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Hey Aidan, Mike Kowalchik here (CTO / co-founder of Grazr) out here in Boston, MA. We met at Gnomedex and I’ve been reading your blog since then. Just saw this post and thought I’d drop you a line.
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Joshua McKenty, here. We’ve worked together on a couple of cool projects, nothing cooler than http://www.bountyup.com (remember Gawsip?)
I’m an entrepreneur and freelance technologist, and I read your blog once every few weeks - mostly when I’m going to bug you and I want you to feel like I care by dropping a reference. (Kidding - I read it to get ideas).
January 5th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
[…] Aidan Henry recently wrote about how he wanted to learn more about his readers, and I have been thinking about how interesting this idea is. Now, I am not going to pretend I have a lot of readers, and while I do not really track my blogging stats, I do want to use this to partially share something about me right now, especially as I just celebrated my first anniversary of this blog. […]