Mission to Learn turned one on May 15. Given that I was traveling all that week, left on the morning of the 16th for a week’s vacation, and am not much given to omphaloskepsis anyway (Or am I?) , I didn’t manage to note it at the time. Still, it seems worth a brief post, even belatedly, for a couple of reasons.

First, crossing the one-year mark seems like a natural occasion for taking a minute to stop and thank everyone who has dropped by during that time. So, thank you! There have been nearly 30,000 visitors here in the past year. That’s hardly a huge number in the Web world, but it’s pretty amazing from the perspective of one guy with a laptop in Carrboro, NC. And double thanks to those of you who have actually subscribed.

(If you haven’t yet joined the esteemed rank of subscriber, you’re just a click away. Go ahead—consider it a birthday gift!)

Second, having traveled this road for a year now, I have come to a fork. And as Yogi Berra would say, I’m going to take it. Actually, I already have taken it.

You see, a month or so ago, I came to the conclusion that Mission to Learn has evolved into two different blogs, one more focused on the individual learner, and one focused more on organizational strategy and learning—the latter strongly influenced by my background as an entrepreneur. So, I have performed radical WordPress surgery and extracted a new blog—Hedgehog & Fox—from the original Mission to Learn.

Those who have been reading Mission to Learn for the past few months are not likely to notice much difference. I will continue to seek out what I consider to be interesting, innovative (and in most cases, free) learning resources—as, for instance, in 26 Learning Games to Change to World or More than 50 Web Widgets for your Learning Mix.

I will also continue to comment on what I feel are relevant issues for the individual learner—as, for instance, in You Want Me to Pay for Learning? and What Have I learned at Work? I may also experiment with introducing some podcasts and potentially inviting in guest bloggers on topics with which I am less familiar. Stay tuned.

On the other hand, the writing I do on general business and organizational strategy issues will become the province of Hedgehog & Fox. Internet business models through a learning lens might be the way to summarize my focus there, though time will have to tell whether that is accurate or not.

I suspect that Hedgehog & Fox will be of interest only to a subset of Mission to Learn readers, but I encourage you to pay it a visit, stick around for at least a few posts, and make that judgment for yourself. In the meantime, thank you for reading Mission to Learn. I hope you will continue to do so and encourage others to join you.

JTC

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