When I got started with this blog, one thing that never occurred to me was the opportunities it would bring or the wonderful people I would meet through it. I love seeing familiar faces comment here (thank you for keep coming back, it really does make my day!) and I’ve discovered some of my favorite blogs via having you visit me. Remarkably my analytics tell me visitors have come to the site from one hundred and twelve different countries. That’s pretty wonderful.
On the other end of the scale, I’ve had opportunity to meet some incredibly talented and creative bloggers in person – here in Leeds, across Yorkshire and further afield. That was definitely something I didn’t expect to get involved with but I am so glad I have.
On this subject, I wanted to let you know about a couple of projects I’m currently involved in and to urge to take a look at them and get involved too.
Vegan Wall
There is also a map that shows where users are so you can find your local vegan community. A restaurant map is coming soon which I’m looking forward to using for travel planning.
I was invited to test out Vegan Wall just prior to its beta launch to give feedback so they could get everything just right. It was fantastic hearing all about its founders’ motivations and the long months they had already spent on coding and building the site purely out of their passion for creating something useful for the vegan community. The beta version has kicked off so I’d highly recommend popping over, signing up and getting involved here.
Yorkshire Bloggers
We also plan to hold regular blogger lunches and meet-ups, not least as an excuse to check out plenty of local restaurants! It’s also enjoyable to just get together with like-minded people, informally, without any PR agenda.
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What have been your biggest surprises about blogging?