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Today’s post was made possible thanks to an anonymous commenter that requested I stop spamming reddit. Over the past year I have submitted links to different subreddits that I found topically matched a specific post. Today I accept that this was a error in judgement. Continue reading »
This is a continuation of a post I wrote in August about reader stats and attention, Ignore the Stats Connect with Your Authentic Audience. I firmly believe the real value in social media is in connecting with your authentic audience. A 1000 people read my blog last month, 9000 people didn’t like the font and left.
Mo Serious went above and beyond the bounds of standard education, to help new and old web designers reflect on the finer points of Design Coding. Before you enjoy this artistic and entertaining experience, I ask only that you pay special attention to each line. Not only is it poetic but each point of advice is spot on in terms of design theory. You can find Charles D. Lewis aka @Chuck on twitter. You be wise to listen to this up and coming artistic force.
Some “experts” recommend you specialize when it comes to building a web presence. If you are capable of completely connecting with many people on a single social media channel, then it’s probably worth your while. But my contrarian instincts and personal experience has been that unless you are famous outside of a social circle, it’s unlikely you will dominate any single media. That’s fine, because winning in social media is a completely different animal than standard competitive games. Continue reading »
I’m sure I’m not the only blogger who has wondered about their old web hangouts, creations, and communities. Before creating sites on the web, about a dozen years ago I setup and heavily modified an old merc diku multi-user dungeon with my friend Aakin. It was fun c coding practice, and I learned a little about sockets. I had a geocities homepage that looked much like my first MySpace page. I also wrote a little in a LiveJournal blog but I deleted it a while back. I found a pretty intense Internet groove in the latter half of 2008 when I decided to make my own website, and I’d like to share a few of the things I’ve created, and a couple of communities that I got involved in since that time. Continue reading »
Warning Signs
Measured Results for BusinessesThis is a followup to an earlier post ignore the stats and connect with you authentic audience. I still stand by that advice when it comes to building a community. A tight idealogical focus is a powerful glue for any fledgling group. But I accept that in the case of measuring the effect of personal engagement and social influence, long term measured trends (stats) reveal the results PR/marketing experts hang their hats on. It is also this information which allows the monetization of attention span either through direct product sales, affiliate sales, or advertising. Continue reading »
How Many People Actually Listen?Out of a couple thousand twitter followers I wondered how many actually care about what I post on a regular basis, and my estimate is probably only a couple dozen. If they follow like myself, they only have time to observe their undirected input streams a couple of times a day. What does it mean to have followers or subscribers for modern Internet browsing habits? Is it simply a token of approval? These questions are in some part supposed to be answered by analytics and statistics. We can see how many folks visit our sites or download files. We see how long they decide to stay on the site, how many other pages they visit, and determine if our content is valuable to them. But I hypothesize that this data is largely irrelevant to our goals. Continue reading »
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