I didn’t post my professional goals for the year on my blog at the start of this year, my blog was new and I wasn’t sure that it was appropriate. Instead I made a written note in my paper based diary – I still keep one of those, not for managing my appointments or scheduling my time, I have an iPhone for that and it handles it just fine. I find it good for scribbling notes and ideas down when I don’t have my laptop or computer at hand, and if you do it properly it keeps a note of the date you wrote the notes too. Having read everybody else’s goals though,  I will definitely publish next years goals here at the end of this year.

One of the initial goals was to publish on my blog regularly…when I wrote that down and reviewed it I saw that this was not really a measurable target and I needed to put some numbers next to it to be able to measure it successfully. So I thought about and I aimed to post at least once preferably twice a week, every week. This would mean that I would have between 52 and 104 posts on my blog by the end of the year and thus gave me an measurable target. I have currently been going at around three a week, I did have a lot I wanted to write about and I got about six posts in front. Which I thought was great, but lately I have suffered a little from writers block, and although I have not run out of things to write about  they are all quite large subject areas so they will take a bit more effort and hence the frequency with which I publish may suffer. As it stands though I am on target to meet my initial target in terms of the number of posts

Another closely related goal was to improve readership and exposure of my blog, when I started this last year Google analytics and the feed burner stats told me that nobody was reading it. This can be disheartening. Through some help through SSC syndication and I managed to get a post on the home page recently too. This month I have had over 500 unique visitors so things are going in the right direction.

I want to learn more about power shell, I will try to post on the blog as I learn. I have one power shell post, mainly detailing resources that could be useful for learning the subject. I will get to these soon.

I’d like to read all the Chapters in my MVP deep dives book. I have read about a quarter of them thus far so I’m on course for that too.

I’ll post some more about this years goals/targets later in the year.