Wednesday, October 28, 2009

One Year On …

first-birthday-party_s600x600 Over the last few weeks I have read about a few blogs that have celebrated birthdays – Gavin Heaton’s Servant of Chaos turned 4, Julian Cole’s Ad-Space Pioneers turned 3 and Zac Martin’s Pigs Don’t Fly turned 2.

You get the picture yet? 4, 3, 2 …. yes that’s right, today The Oyster Project celebrates birthday number 1. I recon I would have missed it if I hadn’t of read posts on the aforementioned blogs spruiking their birthdays. Pretty weird that they all fall in October!

I remember my first post and the doubts I had about sending it out to the world. In the end it was what I would consider a success with 9 comments (6 from readers and 3 from myself) especially considering that it is often hard to get that many comments regularly even with a bit of a following. Thanks so much to my mate Zac Martin who posted the first ever comment on this blog and who pointed out to me over a beer that he was jealous because it took him a long time (a year?) to get even one comment. I should never have rubbed a Whopper in your face :)

You can check out my first ever post “Have You Seen Any Bananas?”

I don’t profess to understand in great detail why I got off to a good start but Zac did offer some insights into a post he wrote about me at the start of the year in What Brands Can Learn From An Oyster

It has been a cracker year and I have met some cool people – Zac Martin, Nathan Bush, Kate Kendall (that one took a while :), Peter Wagstaff, Lucio Roberio, James Duthie, Julian Cole, Jye Smith, Josh Strawczynski and enjoyed some great chats and plenty of beers. Even a year on I still don’t know how to answer Mrs Oyster’s question “So you are going to meet some bloke you met on the internet?”

I really am appreciative of everything people have done to help me out and I don’t want to single anyone out because the list would be a bit long (but if you have written a post, got me to an event or let me talk dribble on your podcast then you know I am talking about you).

9 comments:

Kimota said...

Chalk another October blog birthday up. This post reminded me to go check and I realised I missed my blog's second birthday by 4 days. October 23, 2007 was the big day.

Matthew Ross - Independent Financial Adviser said...

Happy Birthday Oyster Project!

Zac Martin said...

The Whopper Incident will never be forgotten. Happy Birthday and cheers for the regularly good read.

Jye Smith said...

Happy 1st Birthday, you youngster. More beers to be had.

James Duthie said...

Congrats on the birthday Oyst. Always enjoy reading your posts as they add a unique and mature perspective, which is often lacking in the social media echo chamber. But enjoy the (often immature) Twitter banter even more. #Haynegotpwn'd

Interestingly, we used pretty much the same image on our 1st birthday posts... weird!

http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/the-5-most-important-lessons-from-my-first-year-of-blogging/

Lucio Dias Ribeiro said...

There you go!
Great year
Lucio

Matt Granfield said...

Happy Blog Birthday Mr Oyston! Love your work, and it's been a pleasure sharing keyring correspondence with you my good man :)

Wags said...

Congrats, and happy birthday, Oyster. It's been a pleasure watching The Oyster Project grow over the past 12 months. Here's to many more!

Kate Kendall said...

Happy Birthday! It's been absolutely lovely to be in touch with someone like yourself and it was great to meet IRL when you were in Melbourne and made it to @socialmelb. Hope to catch up again soon!

@KateKendall