I hope you’ve had a good start to 2009. Before 2008 disappears out of everyone’s conscience altogether, I want to round up our blogging activity in the last months of 2008.
A few days after Wired magazine said don’t launch your own blog, we finally launched our very own analyst blog in late October, just a few days before our annual conference in Aarhus. The Wired article provides interesting reading about the general problems of the over-crowded blogosphere. However for our small team, our blogging activities have already had a positive impact; increased visibility and attention and useful input for use in our research. We have learned a great deal from the blog conversations with gurus and interested readers and commentators everywhere.
In summary we did 31 posts in the few months and managed to accumulate 45 approved comments. Interestingly readers have come from all over the world. We had most readers in Denmark, the US, UK, Australia, Sweden, Austria, India and Switzerland. A new open source CMS from Microsoft and the annual report from Dynamicweb attracted most readers, while a posting on ECM strategy is unneccessary received the most responses.
The top non-Google referrer were Australian Step Two Designs which sent almost 5 % of all visitors and helped make intranet our top topic, reflecting the interest intranet receives as a topic across the many activities we are involved in. Sara Redin’s post on intranet freeze periods was the most popular intranet post. Next on the list of referrers are CMS Wire with 3 % and Seth Gottliebs blog Content Here which contributed 2 % of visitors. Interestingly Twitter and LinkedIn were our #4 and #5 source of visitors.
Even though we now have our own blog, I have continued to blog over on the much more popular CMS Watch trendwatch blog and plan to continue doing so in 2009. Should this trigger your curiousity, you can see my 20 most recent CMS Watch blog postings.
As a team we are committed not only to sharing our views via our own blog; our aim is to actively engage in and contribute to others more than we have in the past. Watch this space for pointers to worthwhile commentaries from the busy, but still interesting blogosphere.
We’re really excited about 2009 and have many planned improvements for this blog. In the new year, IÂ personally hope to meet you in person at our many planned events in Denmark, London, Vienna, Geneva and Philadelphia.
Please feel free to leave a comment and share your ideas for 2009. And many thanks to all for helping me make 2008 another successful year for J. Boye.
