Happy Blog Birthday to us! Join me for a slice of chocolate birthday cake to get the inside info on today’s celebrations and gifts.
Yes, I’ve been blogging for a year today, ever since Euan urged me to “write a blog Mum!” Why did I need a blog when I had a popular 11 year old, constantly evolving dream website, I asked my friends. “Write a blog Jane Teresa!” they all replied. So I did. A chocolate-coffee coloured blog, and I started with a post about dog poo. And never looked back. Post by post I discovered the difference between a blog and a website, and nurtured both.
And then you all came along and gave suggestions, told me what you liked, what you didn’t like. The dog poo story rated. Looking back, what were some of your favourite posts?
What do you think of our birthday makeover (new title, new header, completely new colours and design)? I’ve got some wonderful people to thank for this:
Thank you
To Carmel Glover, Graphic Designer & Book Artist, and Belinda Hodge, Word Press Designer, for inspired design and several very late nights this week sweating out all the big stuff that goes into a blog makeover.
To Nina Tovey, my agent, for suggesting the makeover and other brilliant adventures, and, like Carmel and Belinda, always following through until the job is done, whatever it takes.
To Michael Collins, my husband, for his speedy production of web images, recording our podcasts, and enjoying other new media adventures like making videos with an iPhone to share with you on the blog. That’s in his spare time, when he’s not ghostwriting. And no, to answer the question on many people’s lips, Michael doesn’t ghostwrite my stuff. I write my own books, blogs and articles, so please do let me know what you like, what you don’t like, and I’ll blog on accordingly.
To you, readers and dreamers, thank you for being a part of our ever-growing dream community, and for being here today to celebrate with me wherever you are in the world. Go on, have a piece of chocolate cake!
Happy Birthday.
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