Work Matters Hits One Million Lifetime Page Views

I started writing Work Matters in June 2006.  Diego Rodriguez (of Metacool fame) and I were teaching a class called Creating Infectious Action, and Diego convinced me that -- if I was interested in infectious action -- I ought to start blogging.  Diego also correctly pointed out that I liked to write and seemed to have a short attention span, and thus was well-suited to blogging (an accurate observation).  I also got great early encouragement from Guy Kawasaki,  Todd Sattersten, Kent Blumberg, and Gretchen Rubin.   My first post (more accurately my second post, I think I deleted the very first one, which was just a short welcome) was called Brainstorming in the Wall Street Journal and was a response to an article that questioned the value of brainstorming -- I was motivated to write it because academic researchers have taken such a narrow view of what "brainstorming effectiveness" means that it reflects severe ignorance of how and why brainstorming is used by real experts in real organizations.

I knew that Work Matters was getting close to a million page views, but didn't expect it to happen so fast as this blog averages about 800 page views a day, but yesterday's post on my trip to Singapore and suspect HR assumptions apparently struck a nerve aa almost 5000 people visited yesterday (the most ever, I think). To be precise, Typepad statistics indicate that Work Matters has as of this moment 768 posts, 2863 comments (thank you!), an average of 822.60 page views per day (thank you), and a total of 1002748 lifetime page views. 

I would like to thank everyone who has visited and commented on this blog and helped me in hundreds of other ways.  But I would especially like to thank a few readers out there -- especially Rick -- who have figured out that I am prone to producing typos and often unable to see them, and for taking the time to point them out. 

I am not completely sure why I keep doing this, but it is fun, I have learned an enormous amount from the comments that people post and email me, and as 55 year-old guy with an increasingly bad memory, it is a great place to store all sorts of stuff that many readers aren't interested in but help me (like the list of 150 or so books that I like).  Who knows how long I will keep doing this, but for now, I am still enjoying it a lot. 

Comments

[E.]

You have a great blog. I like your style. Congratulations on your blog's success Professor Sutton. I've favored you on mine for quite some time. Continued success! E.

Don't know if you have ever explained this on your blog, but how did you end up teaching the kinds of things you do- often looks like organization behavior, leadership, etc - in an engineering school? Thanks!

[Alexandra Levit]

Congratulations, Bob, and keep up the great work!

Best,

Alexandra Levit
Author, MillennialTweet: 140 Bite-Sized Ideas for Managing the Millennials
http://www.alexandralevit.com

[Rodney Johnson]

I certain that many of us fellow bloggers wish we were 1/10th as successful, and have 1/100th of the impact you have had over these short years. Congrats and I look forward to the journey of stardom and at times, potential irrelevance continues.