This Blog is Five Years Old
In a class play during the first grade, I played the tortoise in his infamous race against the hare. My approach to blogging over the last five years has been a lot like the turtle’s – slow and steady.
And while blogging can seem like a race sometimes, mostly it’s been a blast learning (a lot) and connecting with some wicked-smart people scattered around the world – people I never would have crossed paths with otherwise. Hopefully I’ll meet more of you in person at some point.
I’m cooking up a more self-indulgent post around this milestone. But in the meantime, I simply want to say THANK YOU to every reader, subscriber, linker, linkee, blogger, colleague and friend. In a single, (hella-linked) word…
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Well, it’s been five years; let’s double-up on that Supercal.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
To get a point across in an interview, you have to mention it three times, right? So let’s do this once more with feeling.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Tortoise & Hare, Copley Square uploaded by trent_maynard
tags | public relations | PR | marketing | blog | Kevin Dugan
Congrats, Kevin! Five years! That has got to be a lifetime in blog years!
Posted by: Gavin Heaton | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 12:51 AM
Thanks Gavin. The .pdf is forthcoming!
Posted by: Kevin Dugan | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 01:46 AM
Congrats Kevin, enjoy your Blogging B-Day Cake!
Posted by: Mack Collier | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 02:02 AM
Congrats, Kevin. Heck of a job to add a link to each individual letter of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Three times! The mark of total immersion ;)
Posted by: Neville Hobson | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 03:59 AM
Kevin,
An "i", you shouldn't have ;-) I love that photograph. It reminds me of these big tortoises that were in the park I went to with my mom when I was little. I think these is even a photo of me on one of them somewhere. They were in the middle of a fountain that sometimes had not water in it so you could get to them.
Congratulations!
Posted by: Valeria Maltoni | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 06:30 AM
Wow! Five years is quite a milestone! Nice work, Kevin. I hope you have another 5 years of success. It would have taken me five years to link all those letters. :)
Posted by: Patrick Schaber | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 07:30 AM
Sincere, congrats, Kevin! In blog years, you are now officially approaching middle-age... but with a very young heart, of course.
Nicely done.
Posted by: Ann Handley | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 07:45 AM
Holy Coffee Cake! People have been blogging for that long!? Congrats! In dog blog years, that's 35!
Posted by: Todd And | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 08:52 AM
Holy Coffee Cake! People have been blogging for that long!? Congrats! In dog blog years, that's 35!
Posted by: Todd And | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 08:52 AM
What was it like to blog on stone tablets??
Posted by: scott baradell | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 08:57 AM
Congrats Kevin, you've done a great job these last 5 years, hat tip for the amazing "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" ! Best from Paris.
Posted by: Guillaume du Gardier | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 08:57 AM
Five years. Wow. I was pretty excited and impressed with myself when I hit Year #3 last month, but FIVE YEARS is a long time, and you are to be heartily congratulated, Mr. Dugan. Not just for the longevity (read: "sticktoitiveness"), but for being able to come up with GREAT CONTENT for that entire time.
Congrats!
Posted by: Todd Defren | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 09:07 AM
Actually Scott - We referenced/linked to the McGuffy reader and used chalk on slate. Luckily a one room schoolhouse encouraged conversation. So by the time we ventured into Mankato to pick up supplies, the comments really picked up.
Posted by: Kevin Dugan | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 09:30 AM
Thanks everyone.
Todd? WOOF!
Valeria - Flickr rules.
Ann - The headline "Social Network Midlife Crisis" suddenly comes to mind for an article.
Neville - It is a bit of a link love orgy so to speak. OPML files, a scrap of old school HTML code and a ton of cutting and pasting, but it was worth it in the end. Any other way I could have linked to that many people would have been a visual nightmare.
Posted by: Kevin Dugan | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 09:31 AM
Way to go, Kevin! That's an impressive achievement, demonstrating commitment and long-term value to the marketplace. Thank you!
Posted by: Geoff Livingston | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 09:42 AM
What a milestone! Looking forward to your next 5.
Derrick
Posted by: Derrick Daye | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 10:42 AM
What a milestone! Looking forward to your next 5.
Derrick
Posted by: Derrick Daye | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 10:44 AM
Congratulations Kevin, Blogging is more like running a marathon than a sprint and your staying power is evidence that your ideas are excellent and appreciated by your many fans. Keep running the race :-)
Posted by: Kami Huyse | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 11:13 AM
Five years! WOW!!!!
That's great new Kevin. Congrats and best of luck on the next five years.
Posted by: David Armano | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 12:19 PM
Kevin,
Congratulations... jeez the years are just slipping past.
Thanks for your common sense, insight and knowledge
Tom
Posted by: Tom Murphy | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 04:54 PM
Holy hell? Five years? Are you sure the internet existed back then? :)
Posted by: Paul McEnany | Friday, July 27, 2007 at 11:47 PM
Congrats, Kevin!
Great work so far!!
Posted by: Octavio Isaac Rojas Orduña | Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 11:38 AM
A belated congrats, Mr. Dugan, you're my ambassador of PR blogger kwan;)
Posted by: Mike Manuel | Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 09:48 PM
Good job, dude! Now that we're just states away, perhaps we'll meet finally?
Posted by: Phil Gomes | Monday, July 30, 2007 at 02:23 PM
Tom & Phil - You two deserve some 5 year plus thanks/attention as well since you were both blogging before me.
That said, Phil, we have fewer and fewer excuses. I think I have a conference in your neck of the woods next year. So worst case...
Mike - The only Jerry quote I can think of right now is Show me the Money...but it doesn't really apply. Would "you had me at hello" be too weird? Probably.
Posted by: Kevin Dugan | Monday, July 30, 2007 at 04:16 PM