So it’s been just over five years since my first blog post – I’d just been to an IBM conference and been inspired to do something about my career in a way I wasn’t expecting. To the day, it is five years since I registered xomino.com. My reasoning was to make myself more employable than I had ever been before. I wanted to get involved in the XPages community, express myself and see what happened……So a quick summary and time for self reflection. Five years ago I made the best decision of my professional career, and I had no idea what I was doing at the time 🙂
- 388 published blog posts (including this one)
- 380,000 page views
- Got a job at PSCÂ Group
- Spoke 3 times at IBM’s global ICS conference
- Spoke at InterConnect IBM’s global cloud conference
- Spoke at Dreamforce, Salesforce’s global conference
- Spoke remotely at a conference in Australia (that was weird but cool)
- Spoke at a conference in the Netherlands
- Spoke at a SharePoint conference
- Spoke at multiple other events online and on stage
- 3 times IBM ICS Champion
- 1 time IBM Cloud Champion
- 1 time Microsoft MVP
All in it’s worked out rather well actually. I’ve made some lifelong friends along the way, and got to work with some incredible people. It has been a blast and all because I stood up in front of several hundred people and made an ass of myself back in 2012….I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone 🙂
Xomino 
It’s been an absolute blast going on this trip with you! I remember the early days of your blogging career, and I knew that you were going to be awesome! In retrospect, that was an understatement. When you started, you had stuff to say, and you wanted to help the community like others you followed. Now YOU are the one that people want to follow and emulate (like me!)
Thank you for blogging, for teaching me constantly and for your friendship! Congratulations and cheers brother!!! Here’s to AT LEAST 5 more years!
Well done. It was a pleasure working with you near the start of that journey and seeing how far you have come. I hope you continue on the path. Your contributions helps us all.