Despite my sometimes inexplicable (even to me) absences from the blog and my complete and utter lack of marketing aside from having business cards printed up, I somehow managed to accumulate a thousand subscribers to the blog according to Feedburner.
As you can see, the blog started in early 2006 and has had a fairly constant rise in traffic since the beginning of 2007. That strange dip in the middle was due to Feedburner having some sort of technical difficulty.
The blog actually started up in 2006 but I didn’t really start blogging until October 2006. It took three months to get subscriber rates up as I slowly tweaked my writing style for Web reading. Hopefully, those of you looking to start blogs yourself should consider that you may be fairly lonely for the first few months as a blogger. Don’t worry though — people on the Web will find you.
Frankly, I’m just glad people are finding time to read about nonprofit technology. And Beth’s Blog is a great benchmark for me to strive towards as it tells me that there ARE people out there who want to read about this stuff. Thanks to Beth for introducing this blog to her readers as well. Thanks also to Deborah Elizabeth Finn for posting links to this blog over to the Information Systems Forum. She’s been a great Cyber-Yenta to me as I navigated the cast of characters that is the nptech space.
This blog has really forced me to clarify what nonprofit technology means to me. It’s clear that technology must be corralled and then made to obey the dictates of the nonprofit sector. Techies, think of yourselves as a digital horse whisperer! I’m lucky enough to be the ED of a very technically oriented nonprofit. I know that many are NOT in that boat. Wrangling technology isn’t an easy task. And I’ve been keeping that in mind as I write new posts. Dear reader, if you think that I should be covering something new or different or should change my viewpoint on something, don’t hesitate to comment. We may argue but I’m always prepared to eat crow when necessary.
Conversely, those of you looking to promote your particular technology for the nonprofit sector should always feel free to send e-mail to abenamer [at] nonprofittechblog.org. I’m always looking out for new stuff and I always honor embargoed press releases.
Oh, and don’t forget to follow me on Twitter. I use it these days to announce a new post or to ask for story ideas. I’m basically emulating the way Marshall Kirkpatrick uses Twitter. He’s a smart cookie that one.
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Doesn’t your little feedburner icon say it’s “only” 790?
Yeah, it’s always one day behind. Feedburner today is reporting how many RSS subscribers I had on Sunday. During the week, it’s usually at 950 or above. Feedburner can be really erratic but I think it’s stabilized ever since Google bought them.