Don't Be Shy, Introduce Yourself Here

Hi, I am Stanley. It seems people have stopped introducing themselves here a long time ago, but I thought I'dd give it a go.

I am 33 years old and am living in Alkmaar (The Netherlands) with my girlfriend. I am currently working as NOC Teamleader at a major cable company. I have been involved in blogging since 1999. I started several mostly personal blogs, but never managed to keep them alive for more than about 6 months. My main problem with keeping my blogs alive was the fact that they were personal blogs, and well, my personal life isn't all that interesting :-)

The technique behind a blog has always interested me, so I am always busy trying new software, playing with plugins and changing design. Now if I could only focus on content...

On my last blog (The HTC Wizard Blog), I finaly managed to focus on content, and that has made it quite succesful. I get an average of about 2000 visitors a day, a substantial percentage of them coming in through search engines. I started using Google AdSense some time ago, and to my great surprise I actualy make a nice amount of money. Not that I can quit my day job, but it does pay for the dedicated hosting that I am moving to.

This last experience started my interest in pro blogging. I started reading articles and forums about monetizing your website, and was shocked at first about the techniques being used. Buying websites, buying content, scraping content from RSS Feeds, and several other techniques I ran into made me think that this whole "make money online" thing wasn't for me and my ethics. And then I ran into sites like problogger.net and performancing.com. I like what I see there, and those sites rebuild my confidence that it is possible to monetize your website in an ethical way.

I'll be around here on performancing.com reading what others have to say, and maybe share some of my experiences. It has been great so far, keep it up!

I'm Don, Sacramento, CA and I have a local blog going... http://sacrag.com (I'm "CoolDMZ"). It's starting to take off, so Performancing Metrics came along at just the right time. Thanks for providing this great product, and keep on improving!

Well im Jayne (Nick's little sister) I live alone in Berkshire England with my beautiful daughter Ella who is now 3yrs old. I have only just started blogging recently as Nick got me set up with a great little T42 thinkpad and now it's hard to get me off it.
All this blogging is alot different to what im used to, i used to work for Virgin Atlantic as cabin crew before having my daughter and i have never been that great on computers, but i have found performancing is a great place to learn.

Hi,

My name is Sébastien Billard, I live in Lille, North of France. I work as a professional SEO in a little webagency and maintain a blog who is quite popular (in France) about Search, SEO, usability and web design. I got also more personnal interests like cooking, vegetarism, digital photography, music...

Hi, My name's Sean, I live in Nanaimo, British Columbia

I've just started a blog about Zombies, and any medium that they appear in. I'll be focusing on reviewing Zombie paraphernelia, and providing entertainment for visitors.

This is business and pleasure for me. I'm combining my love of Zombies with my knowledge of sales and marketing to break away from "real work" and focus on things more satisfying. Design and code is a weakness for me - so I hope to learn from the great members here!

I'm Gary and i'm a blogaholic, or at least my wife thinks so. she sent me to this meeting. where is the coffee?

really, i'm fairly new to blogging. i've been playing with blogger since 04, but started getting excited about blogging in december 05 after being introduced to problogger.net & figured i talk about my hobbies so much i might as well write about them & make a few bucks.

i have a few blogs on the go right now, some on blogger, some on wordpress. my main blog The Garage has recently been moved from blogger to wp & traffic has suffered a bit, though i suspect that has more to do with a drop in posts than the actual switch.

to nick & patrick & friends, thanks for creating performancering. this has already become a good resource for me & is a daily read.

Hi, all!

I write Phylax, a blog on mainly Greek current affairs, but with all kinds of other commentary thrown in according to the whim of the moment.

I've been blogging on and off since 1998, with 2003 the year of beginning to use TypePad, which has kept me going almost non-stop to this day. I look forward to taking full advantage of Performancing and I'm already using it for blogging straight from Firefox. Brilliant.

Cheers to everybody and... Bloggers of the world, unite!

My name is Ryan Gustafson. I write the Flickertail Journal, a politically-oriented blog with a strong focus on North Dakota politics.

I live in Bismarck and recently graduated college with a degree in journalism. I'm running for the ND State House under the Democratic-NPL ticket (by far the youngest candidate on the ticket at 22).

I found out about Performancing through Wil Wheaton's website, and I think it'll be a great help, especially the Firefox utilities!

Thanks very much!

I'm Chuck Williams. I read this site religiously, and I have readily applied all of my learnings to my online ventures. Though I cannot say that I am making money hand over fist now, I am doing exponentially better and have Performancing.com to thank.

My fiancee and I live in Dallas, TX with our two handsome Schnauzers.

I am Levy Rivers, the CEO of a behavioral health clinic in Illinois. We are testing some ideas for ways to best serve chemically dependent patients that wish to avoid the social stigma of their addiction. The blog that I have created is focused on describing our use of positive psychology as our treatment foundation. The terms we most focus on are Stand, Happiness and Flow.

We surmise that there is a growing population of opioid users (young, working and white not old, unemployed and black) that need treatment but are reluctant because of the social stigma.

As to our background, I'm a graduate of Yale's Schools of Divinity and Management - plus Cornel's City & Regional Planning with a focus in health systems regional planning. My partners and co-contributors are an African Orthodox Priest (clinical social worker) and a Filipiano Psychiatrist, both who have worked in and with opioid addicts for twenty years or so.

I hope it works for your format that there will be the three of us contributing our views?

Provided we're talking about seperate user accounts and are on the topic of blogging, no worries.

welcome to performancing.

I'm new to blogging. So it takes an old guy like me a little while to catch up. But to be certain - I can blog here as long I'm coming from the perspective of the act, thought of, marketing, distribution or some other blog subject matter. Not the subject matter of the blog I write - just blogging.

Hello, everyone! I've been a Performancing.com member and lurker since the start of 2006, and a Performancing Metrics user for the last 3 weeks or so.

I've been blogging on my own domain since Septeber 2005, using WordPress as my blogging engine. Consequently, I'm learning PHP whether I want to or not! :-)

Just today I posted my first Performancing blog entry and am looking forward to a repeat performance soon.

Until then, just wanted to break the ice and say "hi" to everyone, and to offer a public "thank you" to Nick and Patrick, as well as all those who blog here, for an educational and entertaining collection of blogging-related content -- you all rock!

Check my bio if there's anything else you're curious to learn about me; the answer's bound to be in there somewhere!

Ill make this brief.. Im vixen an adult webmaster i make adult photo blogs and adult sites. Thank you for creating this fine stats application. Hi everyone.

Hi all! I'm Chi An from Malaysia. I'm a regular Performancing reader without a membership until the launching of Metrics :P

I'm the author of The MP3 Players. It is a blog about news and reviews of digital audio gadgets. I started this wordpress blog since last May. I'm still wondering how to build a royal readership for my blog :/ Well, I also develop a small website based on drupal called Big TV

Regards,
Chi An

Hi everyone!

I'm a fansubber from Thailand who also write a blog too.

After found that we have great website like Performancing.com I have no hesitate to sign up and join the community!

Keep Bloging!

With Best Regards,
RT.Rising

Hello, I'm Viking KARWUR --- from Jakarta, Indonesia. Currently working as Freelance Web Designer (css/xhtml fanatic), expert in MovableType. I do blog! :) I like to travelling. I love Bali.

Hi all, my name is Rizky, I'm a blogger from Jakarta, Indonesia. I've just registered and anxious to use Performancing.

My blog is at Br4inwash3R.com. This blog is mostly about technology and stuff, and ofcourse some web design articles of my own.

Okay then, see you all later!

Regards,
Rizky Syajuli

I'm Nil, a freelance graphic designer and student of the Recording Arts. My blog deals mostly with culture and technology, but will be moving toward aspects of the music and recording industries as my studies expand. Cheers to all!

Hi everybody, thank you very much for the good work to the people here at Performancing!
My name is Rix, and my blog is at www.fettisch.de - its about, how do you say that in english, Satire? Its highly ironic and for some people it might be slightly annoying.

I live in the city of Cologne, Germany, and if you get there, please say hello and i would be happy to welcome you and show you around a bit!

With best regards, Rix RixR

Hello there; Corsarius from the Philippines here. A friend suggested Performancing.com to me, and when this site was discussed in the 2nd Philippine Blogging Summit (site), I didn't hesitate to sign up.

I'm a recent Computer Science grad from the University of the Philippines Diliman, with interests in writing, literature, blogging, journalism, urban planning, and IT. I plan to use Performancing in my two blogs: my personal/literary blog is Slip of the Pen, while my techblog is nicknamed Crimson Crux.

Thanks, and more power to Performancing.com!

I am Sami and I live in India(Hyderabad). Got to know about Performancing when Flock didn't impress me very much and I wanted to stay with Firefox.

Started blogging a few months back and write mostly for the fun of it. Love to analyse the traffic though, so I track the visitors using Statscounter, Google Analytics and Performancing Metrics, all at once!

A Technology freak and spend 90% of the time on the Internet.

Let me start off by thanking Nick for this great opportunity to intorduce our blogs as well as the people behind them.
I am Ohad, 31 years old out of Tel-Aviv, Israel. I am a newbie to the blogging business but an Internet veteran with over 10 years of experience in web technology and marketing positions. I have recently started my blog at http://ohad-news.blogspot.com to deal with digital culture and most specifically the way the internet is affecting our lives. I use blogger as my platform and performance metrics to track my visitors. I welcome you all to visit my blog to read about new and exiciting sites I liked.
So, don't be a stranger. Drop by and write me a line at http://ohad-news.blogspot.com

Ohad

There, that should be a dead giveaway as far as my location is concerned :D

Hi! I'm Ujwala and my husband and I have recently moved to Bangladesh. While at the hotel i have tons of time on hand my PB and a broadband connection and I'm using it to the fullest extent.

I stopped working a few years ago. Did do an enjoyable stint with Apple in India too. Trying my hand at art and most recently I've spent a year at the Delhi College of Art as a non-collegiate student.

I have several blogs and enjoy looking at the Performancing stats even though there isnt that much to look at! I'm currently running several blogs Maya - my artwork, Blog Schmlog - information for fine art students, Rasbhara Recipes - South Indian recipes mostly, and few more than i wont bore you with.

I'm really enjoying all the changes that are currently taking place on the web - thoroughly. And with all this time in hand i'm getting to register and try them all out!!!

My name is James Cooper and I'm a software engineer over in California (LA area). The latest iteration of my home online is this humble space called Visible Wear. I'm hoping to actually achieve some degree of uniqueness by having the site be short stories (1000 words or less) based on random non-copyrighted photos I find.

Hi I'm Ken Savage from Massachusetts USA. I've learned how to analyze my site better using Performancing and my traffic has increased. Thank you.
My website has gone from a PR3 to a PR5 with your help.

Hi,

I'm Marie Lee from Rhode Island. I was hired to write a Fertility Blog for Adoption.com, a spinoff of About.com because I am a novelist, whose novel, Somebody's Daughter, was about adoption, mothers and daughters, etc., (and PEOPLE liked it...) even though I had no experience blogging.

It was a fun three months until my counterpart on About.com tipped me off about how Adoption.com actively discriminates against gays and singles who want to adopt (note: they were very tolerant of the stuff I wrote, never tried to censor me), so I basically quit on the spot. I'm hoping to start anew for free on Greenfertility.blogspot.com.

I'm looking forward to learning more about blogging, sorry I'm so clueless.

--marie

Hi everyone!
I'm Roxan Cosico, a High school Computer Teacher from the Philippines. I've had several blogs before but never get to maintain it so the latest blog that I have is entitled "The one week blog only". Cuz I don't know if I will be motivated enough to continue with it. I have to maintain it at least for a week cuz its a requirement in one of our workshops about blogging. But since our workshop trainor Ms. Janet Toral showed us what Performancing can do to help us in our blogs, I was amazed! Hey its a great tool that I can use to monitor my students blogs. Now I can get many statistics about my students work. My blog's url is http://roxclaret.blogspot.com. More power to you guys at performancing!

Hi, Im Marek from the Czech Republic. Im very interested in blogging and its really great that something like this is possible. I live in Prague with my girlfriend Renata and I want to be a famous writer. For non-Czech users I must apologize myself - I doing my writing in Czech... so you propably can't read it. And thats enough - my English is very bad. I wish you the very best days on our little planet :-)

Hi, I'm SteamSHIFT from the UK. My blog is here; it's just the stuff that interests me which tends to be art, design, vj, motion graphics, mac, and sustainability.

Hi everyone! I don't tell where I live or any other personal information, so all I can do is say Hi! If you want to see my MSN Space it's here.

Performancing is so cool! It's a wonder I didn't have it a long time ago. I do wish you could make it so I could insert smileys though... I miss that!

Lydia

Hi my friends, I'm Handry Teguh from Indonesia. I've learned much from Performancing and running Online Business Tips Blog site .I crazy to learn everything, especially about Internet Marketing Strategy on the internet. I really enjoy all performancing blog stories that could give me inspiration. Thank You

Hello. I'm Evan, I'm from suburban Philadelphia, and I run a philosophical/local/national/international blog at KlondarIndustries.com. Feel free to drop by and visit--it's a lot of fun, or I try to get it to be that way. Updated (almost) daily.

Hi Folks

I don't consider myself to be a "Professional 'Blogger", more an IT professional who 'blogs... I'm an English-born, freelance IT consultant, my core business being the development of web-based applications. Married with several dogs and horses, passionate about web accessibility, social inclusion, and a return to pure, traditional, "slow" food and drink.

My 'blog, Smiffy's Place is worked on in fits and starts; my interest in 'blogging is both academic (as a communications medium), and as a potential marketing tool for my clients.

That's enough of me.

Cheers
Matthew Smith
South Australia

My name is Scott. I'm a computer programmer (currently learning Java) from Michigan. I also know HTML and run my own personal site where I put my Java code (so if you wanna learn from my code, or just check out what I've done, it's at linuxpenguin.fateback.com). My blog's on Blogger.com but you can get there through my main site.

My interests include biking and computers. I'm pretty good with computers, both the hardware and the software side.

I found out about Performancing because of the Firefox plug-in. Haven't used it much yet but so far I think I'll like it better than Blogger's tool!

Hi, my name is Coqco and I'm working on my fourth blog down in Texas. PM has been very useful to help analyze the traffic and results as I experiment with various techniques on my present blog which is about four months old and which is not particularly suited to revenue generation, given that it focuses on culinary history. Every time I create a new blog I learn some astounding lessons.

I have more years in technical publishing & marketing for the computer industry than I care to admit and currently work on a major industry website team.

My goals are several:
- Better understand the results/consequences of various blogging techniques so that future blogs can be more finely crafted.
- Share the insights learned on techniques, tools and metrics analysis with my colleagues at work to smooth their learning experience with this medium.
- Produce a fifth blog that has greater opportunity to generate income, starting later this year.

I'm looking forward to learning from others in the community and appreciate the hard work the PM team has put into their program.

Great thread everyone, welcome to everyone!

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