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How do you measure a year?

It has been 1 year since I started this blog. It has been an eventful year on many levels – the reference in the post title comes from the musical “Rent” and a song called “Seasons of Love”.

It has been an interesting journey thus far, and I have ‘met’ some great folks along the way. These new online friends have perhaps been the best aspect of the experience. Special mention and thanks to;

Paul James, Agile Continuity
Sadly Paul seems to no longer be posting on his blog, pity as there are few quality thinkers and writers in this space.

Back in early December 2009 Paul posted an online interview with me, which provided great support and feedback to getting over that initial hurdle.

He also provided some helpful advice on some of the technical aspects of blogging. A big thank you Paul, and please come back to the blogsphere.

Jan Husdal

Jan was another early supporter, and fortunately he is still writing – and we continue to cross reference and post with each other’s blogs. Regular readers here will be very familiar with Jan’s name!

Trevor Levine

Trevor writes the Riskczar blog, another regularly mentioned site here. He has also included me in his League of Extraordinary Risk Gentlemen – but as it is a secret society I cannot say more.

Alex Fullick
Another quality writer and thinker in this space, I had the good fortune to meet Alex at the World Conference on Disaster Management in Toronto this year.

Alex is one of my heroes as he has written and published his own books. It was a great honor to receive a copy of his book, and it certainly provided an extra boost along to me.

I had the privilege during the year to present at the WCDM Conference and at the BCI Symposium in Sydney.

Thanks to the people I met at the BCI presentation I was able to be part of a group that established an inaugural ‘Resilience Award’ for Australian and New Zealand practitioners – it will be judged and awarded next year.

I have also had the good fortune to be able to join the BCI’s ‘Discipline Mapping’ Working Party and just this past week appointed to the ASIS Technical Committee to develop an Organizational Resilience Maturity Model. Looks like the next 12 months will be interesting too.

It has also been a year that featured a ‘season of sadness’ with the loss of my father. Today also marked a symbolic ending of that season as we sprinkled his ashes on the waters of Moreton Bay near his childhood home at Manly.

Life, blogging and resilience – they are all journeys not destinations.

Time to start the next stage!