Blog Turns 3 Years Old

Feb 19, 2005 - my first blog post as the IT Director for GCC a year and a half after coming on staff.

Back when I started the only other church IT blogs I found were Terry Storch and Terry Chapman both from Fellowship Church ... oh and Brian Bailey who was on the web side of things at Fellowship.

Then ever so slowly a new church IT blog would surface, then another, then another ... today there's a good 80+ church IT/web related blogs.  Clif Guy is trying to keep an active list of 'em here.

Why did I start blogging?  Here's what I put in that first post:

I've been kicking around the idea of having a church IT focused website since coming to GCC in late '03 as I've found few resources on the internet geared towards church IT ... and so I hope this blog will provide some means toward that end.

I think/hope I've stayed pretty close to that initial vision.

For those that like stats here's a few for the past 3 years according to typepad:

835 posts
2,148 comments
239,468 page views

Here's what feedburner shows for subscriber count over the past 3 years:

And the breakdown on what RSS reader you all are using as of Tuesday:

Regrettably I've really slowed down my blog posting in the past year ... just too many things competing for my time.  So thanks to everyone reading this little blog.  Hope it's providing some value to you from time to time ... if you are ever bored the archives have some good stuff.  I probably google my own blog daily to find something I've blogged out prior :-)

Comments

[Darrell Jordan]

Congratulations :) I find it interesting in some ways that more subscribers are using Google Reader for your blog over Bloglines now :)

dj

[Joshua Gregory]

I fall into the "Other" category. I have my own php feed reader that I use. (in the link).