My Internet Goals For 2009
Posted on December 25th, 2008 in Uncategorized | 41 Comments »
It’s that time of the year again, when we inevitably go and set new goals. Listed below are my top 10 goals for 2009:
1. Blog at least once a week
I’m not the biggest of writers, and also don’t think you need to write daily to attain a following. Notice that I did say “at least”, hopefully I write more  blog posts than that, but it shouldn’t be at the expense of quality. I intend on perhaps making this a multi-author blog to bring in people with expertise in different areas than myself.
2. Average 2000 RSS subscribers
That’s a huge number for a new, unestablished blog. Considering I now have 7 RSS subscribers, 5 of which are search bots and 1 of which is myself, that’s a “pretty big” increase.
3. Have a twitter network of at least 1000 followers
I’m currently at zero, though I obviously haven’t started using/promoting it yet. Follow me now.
4. Create 12 new websites
 That amounts to 1 website per month, which sounds doable. I’ve already got a few in the works.Â
5. Create at least 20 wordpress plugins
Considering I have 5 in development right now, and a document which lists at least 50 other plugin ideas, this should be pretty easy to accomplish.Â
6. Learn a new programming language
Though I have learned Java and even Cobol during my school years, I’m currently only using PHP. I’m really interested in learning ruby and its coveted framework “ruby on rails”.
7. Be more organized
I’m very, very disorganized. I never find what I’m looking for, I forget to pay the bills, etc etc… This needs to change now.
8. Improve my English
Writing this blog is a great exercise. I’ll say it again, if you find a spelling or grammatical error in any of my posts, please do let me know.
9. Be active in online communities
This is part of trying to build a bit of a reputation. It will involve participating in forums and commenting on other blogs.
10. Work more, play less
Being online all day long can be very distracting, one thing I must learn to do is to focus more on my projects, and not get sidetracked.
There you have it, 10 goals, a nice round number. Check back in a year to see if I failed any of them.
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41 Responses
I feel lucky because am the first commentator here i guess
Its good that your first official post is your goals for the coming year! Hope you will rock soon!
Best of luck with your new blog!
Hey,
I am lucky too, the second to comment. Lets define lucky as the first 3 commentators. lol
Good luck with the goals, I hope you make it all.
Wish you a prosperous year ahead.
See you in twitter (http://twitter.com/ArunBasilLal)
Cheers
Posted my internet goals for 2009: http://tinyurl.com/7xpvfz — what are yours?
Nice goals! I helped you out a bit my subscribing to your feed, and following you on twitter!
Hey Wesley,
Thanks for stopping by and commenting on my blog.
Good luck in the new year and Happy Holidays!!
Cheers,
Alex
Hey Wesley,
the Internet is distracting because it offers so much, yet so little time =P
but keep focus on what you want and you’ll succeed. I just started out as well, and is gaining some reputable points towards who i am as a blogger and as a person.
creating 12 websites in a year is doable like you said. I hope to get a follow up and see how you’re doing on that.
Happy Holidays!
http://pheaktol.com
Nice set of goals that you have. Here is my goals for 2009. Thanks Greg Ellison
Woa, 6 comments on the very first post. Thats more that what I could expect in 2 months. Happy new year in advance.
Cheers.
Excellent goals. I would like to see if you can keep up with the wordpress plugin goal of 20.
Good luck with your goals, setting them is important! For the 12 websites you plan to build, do you have any idea what they’re gonna be?
Ben.
Thanks for the comments and encouragement everyone
I have about 4 of those 12 websites already in certain stages of development. They’re pretty much aimed at webmasters, which is why this blog is an excellent place to announce them. As far as the specifics go, you’ll have to wait and see
Hi there. Great start. For the first 2 post, you already got a good comment community here. I believe this blog will be a successful one. Keep up the good work and go achieve your goal!
Maintaining 12 sites isn’t an easy task, Wes! You will have to do a lot of planning and organization in order to achieve that!
I’m only running a couple of sites now (my blog and a hosting service) and I barely have the time to keep them
Have a great 2009!
ikki, most of these sites will consist of user generated content. It will be very hands-off. I will be focusing on promotion and adding new features after each launch.
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Nice goals, good luck with them.
Those are not unattainable goals. A year in a long time and you’ll reach your goals before you know it.
I’ve subscribed to your RSS and and followed you on twitter, so you’re off to a good start even before 2009! hehe.
Your definitely ambitious, you set high goals and you call them all achievable goals. I think this means you have the motivation it takes.
All I can say is good luck in the new year and stay on track with all your goals.
Looks like a solid plan to me
I loved this one “Improving my English”. I think I’ll take this from you.
All the best wishes, and have the power to complete this plan.
Happy holidays.
The Moneyac
Hey Wesley, thanks for stopping by my 2009 goals post. I wish you luck in your goals, and hopefully you can not only hit those 2k RSS readers, but surpass it!
Let’s hope you are able to improve the web with your goals. I love your domain and I like your goals too.
Did you say you were planning to create 50 plugins in 2009. That’s an impressive goal if you ask me.
Yan
Hey thanks for commenting at my 2009 goals here.
As you said your goals are somewhat more ambitious than my own. Best of luck
Best of luck with the resolutions, we will be looking for updates of course.
Hello Wesley, my name is Nice.
Great job to get lot of comments on first post. What’s your secret?
I just found this blog via your first WordPress plugin
I hope to see more useful plugins from you soon
Your goals are similar to mine if it’s not about number/metric.
I opened my blog on New Year 2008
My goal at that time was to blog at least once a week
but in 2009, I plan to blog at least once every 2 weeks. lol
I want to improve my English too.
I’m very disorganized too but to be organized is not my goal because I know I can’t do it. lol I’m just too messy
uhh 12 websites?!? That’s load of work. Good luck with your projects
Best of Luck for your new blogging adventure. Thanks for leaving your opinion on my blog. Really nice goals and very challenging. You got to start the work right now.
I have already subscribe to your rss in my reader. You can add to mine here.
Your goals sound reasonable… hope you reach them
my goals are here: http://www.puttingblogsfirst.com {thanks for dropping by!}
Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving your link about what your plans are for the new year – that’s a big list, and the ideas you have are awesome!
I’m looking forward to seeing you succeed in 2009!
I have similar goals for the new year. Good luck!
Good luck.
Your English is already very good. It’s easily better than a lot of native speakers, at least in writing.
Great goals Wesley. And you can add one to your subscriber count
Happy New Year!
Great goals. Good luck in completing them and I am following you on twitter
http://twitter.com/screationz
Wonderful goals to reach out to. Don’t focus too much on the last one
I’d like to wish you luck with all of your goals for the new year! I look forward to following your progress. Work hard, and hopefully some fruit will come from your toils.
Hi,
Good luck in reaching your goals!!
/ Jim
Good luck with your goals
Those are pretty ambitious goals…which is great! Aim high and you’ll go far! Good luck!
Good luck guy,
Nice site, your english is fine. Less errors than most websites from native speakers. Where are you from?
Hahahaha, silly me, I just noticed the FIRST thing it says on your “about me” page. Ignore that stupid question above
good luck with your site!
Some interesting goals there, good luck for 2009
Warm regards
Michelle
Thank you super, this is a great post… You give me lot more idea now =)