Published on 11 October, 2008
in blogging.
Back in February I promised to take another look at my blog statistics after six months. Well, it has been longer than that…but in the interim I had stopped blogging with the start of my new job this Spring. Now, six months into new job, I belatedly returned and updated the original post with data for four months — from analytics install through the week after my last post. Here is the visual that goes with that:
Google Analytics charts
The spike in March is from my 43 Knowledge Management Definitions post, which since I stopped blogging has still seen 1300+ views, just slightly behind the more surprising favorite New Employee Orientation post. As I prepare to now walk away from this blog, it does give me some satisfaction that people are still visiting — as I’ve seen the same traffic in the past 5 months of absolutely no blogging, as I did in the previous 4 months pictured above. Hopefully I have left some small piece of enduring value behind. With this in mind, I’ll pay for another year of hosting to keep this site alive.
Well, there you have it. Now I feel I can otherwise sign-off.
In pulling together content for an upcoming presentation, I did a card sort (well, actually a Post-It Note sort) to group my too many “what is 2.0?” bullet-points into a handful of over-arching themes. Then, to further aid memory, and for the visual interest, I selected iconic photos for each theme.
This started as just a Web 2.0 behavior and impact scan (trying to stay away from a tools focus); however, as I got further into this it began to blur into the 2.0 meme in general. More about that in the Further Reading below.
Same with my compilation of Knowledge Management definitions, this is not about creating yet another definition for Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, or 2.0 in general, but rather a sharing of my own process and result for getting my head around some of the existing content.
My five groupings ended up as follows:
It’s All About Me,
and My Networks.
- Connections
- Communities
- Ecosystems
- Interaction
- Sharing
- Collaboration
- Reputation and Trust
Side Observation: the first three bullets are a definition and two examples of networks, the next three are what is occurring within the network, and the last bullet (reputation and trust) are both outcomes and enablers of that doing.
It’s Open,
Emergent,
- Innovative
- Perpetual beta –> never complete and frequently changes
- Light weight
- Right-brain
- Complexity
- Leadership, contrast to management
- Fun and exciting
Fast…
(added 28 March)
- …to get up and running
- …and easy to use
- …to find and make connections with others
- …response to questions from social network
- …time to value
- …to appear and (sometimes also) fast to become irrelevant
and Always On.
- Global
- 24 x 7 x 365 1/4
- Mobile devices and upcoming ubiquitous wireless connectivity
- Software as a Service (SaaS) [oops, slipping into technology; but it is hard not to for this point]
- Virtual
Further Reading:
An historical classic and a sample of more recent writing across topics within the topic…
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Photo Credits: Janelle Siegrist (makeup), José Luis Molina (network), Ann-Kathrin Rehse (rose bud), Steven (glass house), Samuel Herrman (car), Reed (at computer)