On systematicHR’s third anniversary, I suppose it’s fitting to do a state of the blog. The basics are rather easy. Over 700 posts on a variety of topics in HR strategy and technology, and over 1700 comments. This is of course excluding the 250,000 spam comments that I so luckily have software and services filtering out for me.<\/p>\n
I suppose more interesting is the analysis of readership trends. You (my readers) have not been growing over the last six months, and systematicHR seems to be stuck somewhere between the 5-10,000 unique readers mark on a daily basis. While I’ll easily compete with other top HR blogs and even many commercial or association sites, I’ve been rather “bummed” that the growth has stopped. There are an additional 2000 readers who receive full posts through their e-mail boxes or in a feed reader that are not included in these numbers. Overall, it makes for quite a healthy readership. While I have not taken a survey recently, the direct e-mail subscribers lists and the IP’s the hits come though show that you are who I thought you would be. There is a good representation from vendors and consultants. But by far, most of you are from name brand Fortune “2000” companies. (and no, I don’t think that people with Yahoo addresses work in Yahoo HR!)<\/p>\n
While it’s been a mediocre year growing the readership, I attribute this to a couple of things.<\/p>\n
systematicHR did have a good year in 2007 from a PR standpoint. HREonline<\/a> put us in their best of the web list, and once again we were a nominee to the best blog awards by Recruitingblogs.com<\/a>. I’ve always tried to stay out of the fray here. For one thing, it’s really not important to me. For another, I don’t consider myself a recruiting blog. Therefore, I have generally not even bothered to let the readership know these things are going on. From a different angle, posts at systematicHR have been syndicated in a variety of ways appearing in both mainstream national print media as well as other popular news websites.\u00a0 But truly, it doesn’t matter much what everyone else thinks.\u00a0 I think this is the best HR blog out there based on my own criteria.\u00a0 I write on a daily basis and put out content that I think will be interesting to HR strategists and technologists.\u00a0 I don’t write about other blogging personalities, about what I had for dinner last night, or about politics.\u00a0 At systematicHR, we stick to the point and we do it every day.<\/p>\n Every year I have to mention one more thing. People ask why I do this and when I find the time. The truth is, there is no time, but there is a reason. As Jeff Hunter once said, “it’s a labor of love.” People engage in social media to participate. I’d like to think that I can contribute to the HR community is a broader and more extensive way than if I was just sitting behind my desk. I’d like to think that my ideas are interesting, useful, and very occasionally valuable. But that’s for someone else to decide, as I’m obviously biased.<\/p>\n That said, I’m honestly thinking the end is near. It was my wish to be able to blog publicly and not behind the anonymity that is required for my situation. The energy that is put into maintaining a separation between this site and my job is not insignificant. However, and on a more positive note, my original goal was to publish 1000 quality posts with good information and ideas. I think that milestone will come sometime in mid-2009, and whether I get there or not remains to be seen, but I promise that I’m not signing off quite yet. Regardless of what happens to my participation in this site, it has been a fulfilling and enjoyable endeavor.<\/p>\n Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n -Dubs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On systematicHR’s third anniversary, I suppose it’s fitting to do a state of the blog. The basics are rather easy. Over 700 posts on a variety of topics in HR strategy and technology, and over 1700 comments. This is of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}