{"id":98159,"date":"2023-06-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=98159"},"modified":"2023-06-20T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:00:00","slug":"happy-10th-anniversary-coachingvb-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/20\/happy-10th-anniversary-coachingvb-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 10th Anniversary CoachingVB.com!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On June 20th, 2013 a blog was born!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s right. Believe it or not, 10 years ago today <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/welcome-coaching-volleyball\/\">the very first post of the Coaching Volleyball blog<\/a> went up. Things have definitely changed since then. What started out a as a resource for coaches in England has gone WAY beyond that now. I&#8217;d like to think, though, that the underlying motivations have held pretty steady.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of funny to think about how <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/big-career-news\/\">things have circled back now<\/a> with me working in English volleyball again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s some of what&#8217;s happened in the last 10 years for the blog, and as a result of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>More than 1 million visitors and approaching 2.5 million page views.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nearly 1500 posts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A number of posts and other content contributed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avca.org\/\">AVCA<\/a> publications, and used in a number of other places (some authorized, many not).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Started the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/coachingvolleyball\/\">Coaching Volleyball group<\/a> on Facebook that now has just shy of 50,000 members, making it (I think) the biggest volleyball coaching group on that platform.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Developed <a href=\"https:\/\/volleyballcoachingwizards.com\/\">Volleyball Coaching Wizards<\/a>, and published 4 books (so far)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Presentations at the 2016 and 2019 AVCA Conventions, and the 2019 Volleyball England Coaches Conference.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Did the <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/coaching-conversations-recordings\/\">Coaching Conversations series<\/a> during the covid Summer of 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Went on trips in <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/big-rewards-from-seeing-fellow-volleyball-coaches-in-action\/\">2013<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/three-weeks-in-professional-volleyball\/\">2014<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/back-in-the-bundesliga\/\">2015<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/report-on-my-europe-trip\/\">2017<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/eurotrip-2019-the-full-report\/\">2019<\/a> to visit a variety of teams and programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and it was through connections developed because of this blog that I got to coach professionally in Sweden. A lot of folks I know in the global volleyball community now are directly or indirectly thanks to this blog. From it&#8217;s earliest days I have been surprised at how many people it&#8217;s reached, and where.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see from this map, the blog has had readership from nearly every country in the world. Just a few nations missing.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/10yr-CoachingVB-map.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/10yr-CoachingVB-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99043\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Of course the US dominates the readership. It&#8217;s interesting to see which other countries are in the top 10, especially among non-English speaking populations.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/10yr-CoachingVB-countries-top-10.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/10yr-CoachingVB-countries-top-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99044\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Here are the all-time most popular posts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/volleyball-try-out-drill-ideas\/\">Volleyball Try-Out Drill Ideas<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/volleyball-set-diagram\/\">Volleyball Set Diagram<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/teach-overhand-serve-volleyball-beginners\/\">How to teach the overhand serve to volleyball beginners<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/putting-together-a-starting-line-up\/\">Putting together a starting line-up<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/scoring-serving-and-passing-effectiveness\/\">Scoring Serving and Passing Effectiveness<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/the-qualities-of-a-good-team-captain\/\">The qualities of a good team captain<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/game-winners-a-k-a-kingqueen-of-the-court\/\">Game: Winners (a.k.a. King\/Queen of the court)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/volleyball-camp-drills-and-games\/\">Volleyball Camp Drills and Games<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/what-is-a-pin-hitter-in-volleyball\/\">Pin hitter in volleyball \u2013 what is it?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/are-your-warm-ups-wasting-valuable-time\/\">Are your warm-ups wasting valuable time?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">10 more years?<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>I honestly can&#8217;t say where I or this blog will be in ten years time. I hope it continues to be a valuable resource. Technology changes, though, could mean changes. Maybe this format won&#8217;t be as useful, or some other type of platform becomes better suited. One thing I can say, however, is that I don&#8217;t have any plans to stop working on coach development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was June 20th, 2013 when the first post went up on CoachingVB.com. These last ten years have definitely been quite the ride!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[378],"class_list":["post-98159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-r","category-volleyball-coaching-news","tag-volleyball-coaching-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}