The United Colon Vlog

Hey everybody,

I just wanted to drop by and give everybody a quick update on what’s going on with me. Last week I was a volunteer cabin counselor at Camp Oasis, an IBD summer camp for kids. More on that later but everything went fantastic! Tomorrow I’m off to backpack for a week, so I will continue to be out of commission. I responded to a few emails and comments very quickly just now but for those who have sent longer messages I will get to them next week. Keep patient and continue to send me messages about any questions or concerns you have!

On a more important note, sometime this past week the video views for this vlog exceeded 100,000! That’s a fantastic number and makes me very excited. When I first started this vlog it wasn’t as popular, as most things are in the beginning, and I made a secret goal of exceeding 100,000 video views within a year. That was on October 1, 2008. I had no clue how I would reach this number but they say to set your sights high so I did. And now that goal has been reached with two months to spare! Thanks to everybody for all your support with this project, things are going very well and there’s more to come in the future.

To give you some side context, some college friends and I once had a YouTube channel up that featured various comedy videos of our college antics, the kind of stuff you usually see on YouTube. We thought we were pretty funny but I guess not. It took that channel over 3 and a half years to breach the 100,000 views mark. The lesson is: keep your projects focused and targeted at a specific audience, even if it’s a niche audience like the IBD community, and success will come your way.

Keep fighting,
~Dennis