Today is the launch of Thursawday.com, thank you for stopping by and welcome to the first website in the world to be updated only on Thursawdays.

Over the (next) first 52 weeks — remember, updates only on Thursawdays — the major interactive components of thursawday.com will be built and rolled out for public use, hence the name “sawft launch” — could have called this an alpha launch or prebeta launch, but it’s really just a sawft launch.

Reasons you should register now
The first thing you’ll want to do is register as a Thursawday contributor. Because it might be way early and unclear why you should register now, here are few reasons:

- you will be among the first to become an official sawizen in the Thursawday community.
Early membership will bring a few special benefits (more on that in the future). Teasing, I know, but you have to take this on faith at this stage in the adventure.
- your sawizen username/password combo will be the only login/identity you’ll ever need at thursawday.com between now and June 4, 2020 on thursawday.com. Reserve your name now.
- you will need this login for most interactive functions of the site so get this out of the way early.
- after the first 66 Thursawdays, effective ThurSAWday #67 Dec 11, 2008, registration and login will be required to leave comments on the sawblog and most, if not all other community areas.
- no CAPTCHA will be required on forms (including comments) for registered/logged in users. Don’t see CAPTCHA in play yet? You will on a future Thursawday
- your email address will NOT BE SOLD OR GIVEN to third parties or partners by KMR Enterprises (that’s our company). If you are concerned then feel free to use a traceable email address. A full thursawday.com privacy policy will be forthcoming and linked prominently in the footer of the home page — hopefully within the first month.
- you’re joining the first sawcial network ever! Eat your heart out MySawce and Fasawsbook.

After signing up, now what?
Start thinking about what project(s) you are going to commit yourself to every Thursawday. Here’s a picture of my first project commitment:

Thursawday #1 activity: update the Sawblog, making at least one post, every week until Thursawday June 4, 2020.

Your project(s) are about you, your business and/or personal lives. The possibilities are limited only by your energy and imagination. A project commitment is different than a goal. A goal is something you’d like to do someday. A project commitment is a plan of action that you will do at least once every Thursawday. How much time you spend working on your project(s) is entirely up to you as long as you work on it at least Thursawday every week.

Don’t worry if you can’t think of something right away. There will be examples to give you ideas and others will be sharing.

What will you get out of Thursawday? How is thursawday.com going to benefit you?
Something valuable I’ve learned is many businesses fail becauase they quit too soon. Some have great ideas, plans and dreams, but the execution over a long enough time is where things fall apart. If long term dedication isn’t there, it’s more difficult to see success.

What do I know about consistency and long term dedication on the internet? I’ve hosted one of the longest running weekly live web radio shows (7+ years and counting). I’ve ran a programming business since 1999. I’ve been blogging consistently — an average of three posts a day, every day — since July 4, 2003. Thursawday.com is my longest reaching and most ambitious web project to date and is scheduled to last at least until June 4, 2020. That’s a few months shy of 13 years. I’m hoping others will want to come along with me and share the consistency and dedication in their own business and/or personal ventures.

Action, not talk
Thursawday is about consistent activity and dedication to projects. You will be able to come here every week and see something new until 2020 from at least one person — me — unless the grim reaper calls. That’s my promise and commitment to this site. The rest of what you, me and other sawizens can do at thursawday.com will become clearer in the coming weeks, months and yes, even years.

Questions? Comments? Feedback?
Right now you hopefully have the basic premise in mind about what this site is about. I’m happy to answer questions below and/or write more posts further explaining where this project is headed.

I encourage you to subscribe to the RSS feed and bookmark the site. I think if you are with us long enough you’ll find this Thursawday experience educational, beneficial and — unlike so many things online that you might get involved with online and not know if it will be here five years from now — Thursawday should be on your calendar until at least 2020.

How many other sites do you visit that have an action plan that far into the future? In a sentence, that’s what Thursawday.com is about. Welcome aboard!