{"id":1275,"date":"2010-03-11T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2010-03-11T14:00:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T19:00:38","slug":"what-a-difference-a-year-makes-well-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/03\/11\/what-a-difference-a-year-makes-well-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"What a difference a year makes. Well, two years."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/rlv.zcache.com\/clowns_and_candles_2nd_birthday_tshirts_and_gifts-p235469737214732448oygi_400.jpg\" title=\"i&#039;m 2!\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" style=\"padding:10px;\"\/>This past week was the second birthday of this blog, and so far, the terrible twos haven&#8217;t been so bad.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a ton of fun to write and connect with people all over the world. In the time I&#8217;ve had this blog, I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/speaking-conferences\/\">spoken at 13 events, conferences or webinars<\/a> in both the United States and the United Kingdom, I&#8217;ve taken a new job at a new university, I&#8217;ve become the biggest WordPress cheerleader imaginable, I&#8217;ve served a technology fellow at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nitle.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NITLE<\/a> and so much more. 2010 is shaping up to be just as much hard work and most importantly, fun. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some interesting statistics from two years of blogging:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Posts<\/strong>: 210<br \/>\n<strong>Comments<\/strong>: 381<br \/>\n<strong>Visitors<\/strong>: 67,433 visitors from 162 countries<br \/>\n<strong>Page views<\/strong>: 96,155 page views<br \/>\n<strong>Most popular post<\/strong>: How to add a custom tab to your Facebook page<br \/>\n<strong>Countries with the most visitors<\/strong>: US, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, India<br \/>\n<strong>Country with the fewest visitors<\/strong>: Tied between Angola and Vatican City<\/p>\n<p>So, what will the next two years hold for this blog? I&#8217;m going to continue to write interesting content relating to web development in higher education, cloud computing, and the future of IT in higher education, with a bit of code and fun stuff like QR codes thrown in there for fun.  I&#8217;m throwing around the idea of doing some bespoke WordPress\/cloud consulting. I&#8217;m looking forward to more travel to work with more great people. <\/p>\n<p>Want to keep up with what I&#8217;m up to? I&#8217;m on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mrichwalsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mrichwalsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mrichwalsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">LinkedIn <\/a>or you can always use <a href=\"http:\/\/mrichwalsky.wufoo.com\/forms\/m7x4z5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this form<\/a> to email me. <\/p>\n<p>All in all, life&#8217;s pretty awesome. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m now squarely in the terrible twos phase of blogging. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[254,415,531,600,986],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What a difference a year makes. 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