Last week marked the one year anniversary of this blog.

Thank you to all my readers – loyalists who read every post, as well as the infrequent visitors who  drop in read one and run. Each of you is important to me.

In celebration, I created a new  home  for this blog – http:// collaborativeconversations.wordpress.com.

I decided after this first year of posting things from my wide variety of interests that I will really focus this blog on exploring the skills and competencies required to build and sustain collaborative conversations.

I recently  developed a series of workshops on The Foundations of Collaboration and I plan to delved into those a bit heret as well as post some of the slides I’ve developed to accompany those courses. Stay tuned for more info and updates.

This first year has been a great learning process for me. My visitorship for the entire year is just over 6,500. Modest by most blog standards, miniscule by others, but more than enough to make me grateful. These visits also humble me and make me think deeply about what it is that I can pass on to 6,500 people that is useful and valuable.

So, what have I learned and what is ahead?

I learned that it is very challenging to create a new post every week.

I learned that I write in fits and starts with a sudden burst of several posts pouring through followed by dry spells.

I learned that the hunger out there for good information about how to collaborate is very deep and mostly unsatsified.

I learned that I can not please everyone and that sometimes what I write will be misunderstood no matter how I try to be clear.

I learned that when I look back over what I write that it usually has its own organic unfolding which is not always as strategic as I would like it to be.

I also learned that people care deeply – this is more a reaffirmation of previous knowledge coming through a different medium.

And I learned a few things about the technical side of blogging too. Last May I was introduced to twitter and discovered that micro-blogging is actually much more interesting then it appears at first – I am still learning my way into this new medium. I actually think that the discipline of 140 characters is great practice for writing longer blog pieces.

For now, I want to welcome any new readers, and  say thank you to all my past readers. I hope to provide both of  you with plenty of reasons to return in the coming year.

With gratitude,

Ken