Happy Birthday Lithosphere!

[#1]

The Lithosphere is 1 year old today!

It seems like it was just a sort time ago, but so much has happened. Of course, time past is only one way of looking at the community and what we've achieved - so I thought I'd share a couple of other numbers from the last year that you might be interested in:

Over 5 million page views
Over 2.2 million user sessions

About 620 user registrations

Number of new members registered last month: 93

Nearly 500 forum threads started, with over 1400 replies

170+ ideas submitted, with over 300 comments (since November '08)

• 8 ideas have been implemented, with 14 more under consideration

200+ blog articles,with at least 235 comments

• Includes 10 guest posts and 6 interviews

There have been over 33,000 searches

The top search term of all time is 'restapi' (over 8000 times!)

Number of forum posts on the Rest API: about 120

• Number of times JakeR stepped up to answer a REST question: at least 20

Number of forum posts on ranks: about 127

There have been over 7 webcasts, and 9 web cast speakers and moderators have participated on the community

1 major upgrade, and about 7 or so minor ones

2 major design changes

Uses of the word Lithosphereans: 4

• Number of times it has been misspelled: 2 (my fault)

Number of ranks currently in use: 23

Comments on the pink rank names: 4

Comments on the gray rank names afterwards: 4

Over 50 accepted solutions, which have been viewed over 50,000 times

Members have given out over 1700 kudos

Kudos Leaders:

• Last week: MoniqueL (3)
• Last month: JohnnyJigsaw (14)
• Last year: Mark_Hopkins (164)

...and 7 All-Star members recognized at the customer conference last May!

Avatar pictures I've had: 4

Minutes I've spent on the community: 102012 and still going

Moments of apprehension: a few

Moments of amazement and pure joy: too many to count

My thanks to each and every one of you for all that you've done to make this community a welcoming and helpful place - it's really because of you that we achieved what we have to date!

Here's hoping for many happy returns in the years to come!

Photo by Pink Sherbet Photography

[#2]

Happy 1st Birthday Lithosphere! And a reiteration of thanks from all of us at Lithium to all the users and particularly our incredibly talented superusers. You guys are the best.

[#3]

ScottD,

Great first year - Lithium took a lot of risk in launching the Lithosphere, and I'm glad that your culture is bold and willing to undertake prudent risk.  I think success follows closely.    While some Lithium competitors use twitter, have a some blogs, or otherwise try to engage existing and potential customers, I'm not aware of any SaaS provider that has built a community on community, that is so feature rich and so much a work in progress.

As the Lithium champion for this effort and community manager, you deserve a big round of applause too!

Best wishes for year 2

Mark

[#4]

Happy Birthday!  (Is there cake???)  I love the LS - I learn so much from what others post, and it all gives me a lot to think about.  Hope the LS has many more years!

Jane

[#5]

Oh, did I forget the cake? Must have gotten stuck somewhere...

Thanks so much for your continued help and support! We truly couldn't have done it without you!

Photo by Brandie!

[#6]

I brought a spoon, a napkin and extra health insurance - that should see me through the cake!

[#7]

Mmmmm...  Nice cake!  LOL

Jane