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Just a short post to celebrate my blog's 7th birthday (which was officially yesterday...). 7 years... I must say time flies . I still clearly remember when and why I started blogging . And how scared I was to publish my first post. As mentioned the previous year wasn't my best blogging year and I hope to do better this year. In any way I still enjoy blogging. It's a great thing to me that we have platforms to easily share what we think with each other and that we can interact with anybody in the world who is willing to read what your write. Thanks to you all for following, reading and commenting on my blog!

My first post this year is to celebrate my blog's birthday! Wow, 5 years ago I started to blog . And although blogging (who said it would be...?!) hasn't always been easy I still enjoy it. I started blogging to have a way to think out loud. To write my thoughts and ideas down and connect with other writing elsewhere in the blogosphere or on the Net. My main goal was to speed up my learning by not only reading interesting books, articles and posts, but also by publishing my thoughts, questions, doubts and learnings based on my reading. And I must say it really helped. It definitely also helped to become more connected and visible in the communities that I'm interesting in. Social media in general, and social networking especially. But also: communities, social business, enterprise 2.0, knowledge management, intranet and content management. One thing I'm wondering about is if a blog truly is a conversation platform. I know there are blogs that show it is. But my b...