Blow Out Your Candles, BBB!

Crystal posted this on April 1, 2008

Cheerfully celebrating a reached milestone

Big Bright Bulb is two months old today (yay!), and it’s time to fish or cut bait. When I started blogging back in February, I said I’d move on to something else in two months if, despite my best effort:

  • no one showed up
  • no one came back
  • no one subscribed
  • no one noticed
  • I hated it, or
  • readers told me they hated it

Then y’all showed up and kept coming back and subscribed to the feed and linked to the posts and left interesting comments and offered helpful feedback and I really really enjoy it and YOU—so I’m staying :)

And because BBB is in for the long haul, here’s new stuff you’ll be seeing in the next few months:

Web Wanderlust

On Fridays I’ll be posting my best bookmarks from the week. I’m online all day for work, life, blog, and school, so there’s likely to be an odd mix of cartoons, business and blogging tips, photography, news of the weird, web design, web tools, and Web 2.0.

I hope these links will be fun to poke through at the end of your busy week, and that you’ll discover nifty bits of the Web you haven’t seen yet.

BBB weekly digest

My friend Chris wants to follow BBB, but he 1) isn’t an RSS feed kind of guy, and 2) doesn’t want an email each time I post. Instead, he would prefer the highlights of the blog once a week, so he can have a one-shot, catchall, bird’s eye view.

I suspect he isn’t the only one who’d like an executive summary, so later this month there will be a third subscription option: a Saturday morning email with a list of the week’s posts, comment highlights, some links from Friday’s Web Wanderlust, and other bloggy bits.

A new series (or three)

Positive feedback is inching in for the Going NoWare posts, where I wrote about abandoning traditional software for a wholly mobile office run on Web 2.0 applications. There will be more on the unexpected bliss and harsh realities of that as I make the switch.

Also, as a happy wave to my mortality, I’ll be releasing my untended ideas into the wild. It would take 139 years for me to manifest them all, and I may only get 40 to 50 more years from this turn of the wheel. None of the ideas are new or perfected, but we can use the comments area to brainstorm the best out of them, and get them ready for whoever they’re meant for.

And since I’m waist deep in databases for work and school, there will likely be posts on leveraging your sales and customer data to grow your business. I’m still thinking this one through, so more on that later.

Room for one more

The Web is packed with content for businesses of every size: forums, directories, magazines, tools, and blogs. With all that’s out there, I was worried there’d be nothing for me to add.

Instead, I found an online community of solopreneurs and microbizzers, bloggers and tweeters, askers and answerers. And every person I’ve met has made me feel there was plenty of space at the table.

A thousand thanks for making me feel welcome,

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Comments

5 Responses to “Blow Out Your Candles, BBB!”

  1. Chris Guillebeau on April 1st, 2008 11:45 pm

    Hey, that’s great! I’m also about two months old. :) I’m glad to hear your journey is going well. Mine is too, although it’s certainly a learning process.

    Keep up the good work. I’ll be reading every day.

  2. Crystal on April 2nd, 2008 12:41 pm

    Hi Chris, and Happy Birthday!

    Yup, I’m learning something new everyday, often by breaking something. ;)

    And I’m looking forward to following your feed. Web wanderlust is nothing compared to how you meander across the planet in a year…

  3. Kyle Claypool / OnYourBusiness on April 2nd, 2008 3:10 pm

    Crystal,

    Congrats! Glad to hear you’re staying. The blogosphere is a better place for your having joined it. Looking forward to reading your posts for years to come.

    Best,
    Kyle / OnYourBusiness

    Kyle Claypool / OnYourBusiness’s last blog post..Sun Tzu on Business Tactics - Part 3 of 6

  4. Bob Younce at the Writing Journey on April 3rd, 2008 12:20 am

    Happy Birthday, BBB. I’ve enjoyed your tweets, keep up the great work here.

    Good form!

    Bob Younce at the Writing Journey’s last blog post..Writing Around the Web - April 2, 2008

  5. Crystal on April 3rd, 2008 10:56 am

    @Kyle–Thanks so much! I feel the same about your contribution to the ’sphere. There’s always something new to think about waiting at your blog…some new direction to chew on.

    @Bob–Howdy Bob! (and thanks) How cool to hear that you read my tweets? So glad you tweeted the link to your showdown. An exciting win, your #7 blog surpassing the leader. Looking forward to more good stuff at WJ :)

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