On February 1st of last year, we crawled out onto the internet with a post that read: Life As A Human Has Begun!
It seems like only yesterday that we said:
‘To our readers, today we have launched the site with seven articles. In the days, weeks and months to come, you will be introduced to a group of excellent authors from around the world. We will also present you with talented photographers, movie-makers, artists and musicians. Through their articles, posts and comments, you will get to know them, and they will get to know you.’
So how did we do in our first year?
Check it out! Using round numbers, we have:
– Posted 1225 articles through the contributions of 71 regular authors and about 30 guest authors.
– Received 4513 comments from our readers.
– We’ve had 650,000 page views and close to 30 million hits!
– Received tremendous feedback from our readers and were selected by the Canadian Weblog Awards as first place winners in the Group Weblog category and third place winners for Best New weblog.
It’s been a great year and it has been a privilege for us to work with such great contributors every day. We are no longer crawling, we have learned to walk!
To celebrate, we have launched another site!
Life As A Human Photography officially went live today. We are looking for guest contributors so if you are a shutter bug, we know you’ll be interested in that too.
What’s Our Birthday Wish?
We have one wish on our birthday wish list. Please share us! Most of our growth has been organic fueled by our readers sharing our site with their friends and families. At the bottom of every article, there is a share bar that makes it easy to share our articles. There are further sharing options at the bottom of your browser on every page.
If you use any of these social media mechanisms, please share us! If you don’t use social media, then please e-mail your friends about us.
We thank you in advance 😉
Thank You!
To achieve all of this has been a tremendous amount of work. But, without the ongoing contributions of our authors and the support of our readers, none of it would have been possible. The Life As A Human team thanks you all for your support, your readership and your engagement through comments.
We know you will enjoy the upcoming articles at Life As A Human and the photography at Life As A Human Photography. Please never hesitate to let us know if there are ways we can better serve you.
Our Very Best Wishes To You!
Recent Gil Namur Articles:
- Look After the Little Things
- Promenade
- Close Encounters Of The Google Kind
- Always In This Heart
- A Dance of Delight
Happy Birthday!
Anne M. Kelly
Thanks Anne!
To the LAAH team of writers and your readers, HAPPY BIRTHDAY y’all.
Reading LAAH in it’s first year in the public eye has been enlightening to say the least for this reader, as I believe it has been for many other seniors who read each revealing article. Mostly, it has been my personal and humble awe to read and to learn, to be excited or dumbfounded and often flabbergasted on reading the revealingly personal stories of the life of many a human.
You , LAAH, have opened up a whole world of the doings and thinkings of many extraordinary folk. You have opened us up to one another’s lives where the writers have shown us a world of love, hate, art, music, fun, pain and most importantly, survival.
Thank you team LAAH, and I wish you continued success. Go blow out your candle and make a wish. 🙂
Thanks Granny!
It’s been a great year and as I mentioned, a real privilege for us to work with the authors and to meet so many readers through comments 🙂
Off to blow out that candle! 😮
Thank you so much for your very encouraging comment. Every day we get to do what we love here at Life As A Human. Our readers have been very generous with praise, feedback and inspiration. We are so fortunate to have such a loyal and smart readership.
It has been the best of times and the worst of times…oh wait, I can’t say that with out quotes in the proper places. Where is Kerry when I need her. CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL! A literary online venture that survives, better yet, grows, wins awards on merit, extends its reach and develops writers from all kinds of backgrounds and experience, well as the old philosopher useta say, “who’d a thunk it”?
I am sure I am not alone in saying that your hard work and dreams have made my own shine more brightly, not easily done and never to be forgotten. Forward. Together.
Thanks Michael!
We’re just getting warmed up 😉 2011 will be a great year!
Cheers,
Gil
Michael, you rock! Thank you. We are so lucky to have such an amazing group of writers like you.