Common Craft is 5!
By leelefever on June 24, 2008 - 9:26am.
It's true, Common Craft (the company and blog) is 5 years old today, or sometime around now. I recently went back to the very first blog posts I wrote in 2003.
One of first was called "My Intentions for this Weblog" of June 24, 2003. Here are two quotes:
This weblog will be written in the language of a lay person. I feel strongly that a key to my success is being able to relate technology and technical concepts to people that are not educated or well-versed in technology. I think that the language of technology is very much focused on technologists. My goal is to make communication technology easy to understand for people like my Mom.
And...
Lastly, my overall and far-reaching goal with this weblog is to increase the understanding and acceptance of the Internet as a communication tool. There is a world of people and organizations that are looking for ways to use the Internet to work and communicate better and I want this site to help them see new opportunities.
I honestly didn't realize that these things were such a big part of my plans 5 years ago. Truthfully, I don't see much change in the next 5 either.
This birthday post at 2 years is one of my favorites too.
Yelling in Dutch : hip hip
Yelling in Dutch : hip hip hiep....hoera ! Congratulations and on going up with the excellent work you're doing !
Great Article
This is a very helpful and reliable site. I'm glad I stumbled upon it. Thanks for the post.
Great to see what you are all about!
I appreciated reading what your commitment has been from the very beginning to helping average people grow in their proficiency with technology by presenting in everyman's language. Question: do you know of any articles, or perhaps one of your blog entries, that addresses the idea that because of the constantly changing nature of technology that all of us (technophobes included) need to have a lifelong commitment to continuing to learn technology? I am a learning director for a non-profit and am challenged with encouraging our staff to continue to learn technology (even after the age of 50!)
When realize you know that you know what you are doing
It's always great to look back and find-out that you were already into doing what you're doing now, just that, at the time, you didn't realize what it was going to become.
Congrats!
Congrats!
Congrats!
Congrats!
You've done a fabulous job with what you've been doing, particularly the bit about keeping everything in plain English! Congrats and we look forward to seeing more from you!
Well done
I am a big fan of commoncraft and am the next five years will be as productive (or even more so) as the last.
one small thing. i think the date of the blog you mention should be 2003 rather than 2005.
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Fans form Argentina
Happy Birthday ComonCraft.
Please take note that you have a great fan in Argentina, connected to your RSS feeds, and who day to day uses your videos to explain simple things about the web. I work as a fundraising consultant for non profits in Argentina, and like to spread the word about the inmense potential of the web's free working tools.
Thanks and have a great birthday!
Happy Birthday
Congratulations - great job the last 5 years :)
will it be equal or become even better? we'll see...
More fans from Argentina
Happy b-day 2u! I'm also a big fan of you...I wish we could make some of your videos in Spanish. BTW, I work for a non profit (www.idealistas.org), and we have big problems explaining what we do to our visitors :-) Any ideas will be welcomed!
Spanish Translation of Common Craft Videos
This is a great idea...I teach Spanish to high school students...wouldn't this be a great project!!!! contact me if you are interested in an "international project"!!!!!
Bridget
Feliz Cumpleaños!
Happy Birthday Common Craft Blog... I know your Daddy is very proud of you. (and mommy too)
Now that you are past Kindergarten and headed to the big leagues, keep speaking in simple, easy to understand and witty fun ways and you will continue to be a HUGE success...
Tell your Daddy I am a huge fan of his brain. I follow him on Twitter and his are almost always my favorite Tweets (especially when he writes whimsical stuff like flicking toothpaste in his eye... but all the other stuff is cool too)
Thanks for the good times!
To many more,
David Gonzalez
Austin, TX... y'all.
Thanks folks!
It's so nice to have birthday wishes from around the world - and from home too! We plan to make it down to Argentina sometime in the next couple of years - I hope you folks will meet us and show us around! :)
~Lee
Happy Anniversary!
Great feeling to celebrate doing something you love and, after five year, still learning and expanding in the process!
And You Smell Like One Too
Happy birthday to the folks who make the complicated world of technology simply enough for a musician to wrap his brain around.
You look like a monkey and you smell like one too.
-Shaun
Shlog.com
Congrates from Bangladesh
I become yr fan within a short time... Happy Birthday ComonCraft.
thanks for promoting democracy
what you are doing is truly democratic. congrats! you're empowering people who may not have the means to be "in the know" all the time. i love it, and my fellow librarians love it. you help us accomplish our mission, which is very similar. keep up the great work!!
www.embeddedlibrarian.blogspot.com
Nice
That's a really nice thing to say Eileen. I hadn't thought of it that way, but I like it! :)
Congrats!
A little bit late but still: happy birthday and congratulations. Keep up the good work. Lots of people enjoy your work as I do too.
Happy 5th B-Day
I love your content, thanks allot for what you are giving the world.
With much regards,
Tal.
5 Alive and Kickin'
Happy 5th Birthday and best wishes for many more!
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