Because I have now been blogging for a little over a month, I'm starting to become aware of new technologies I never before knew existed. One of them is known as platform blogging which sometimes goes by the relatively unfortunate name of "plogging." One of the new entrants to that game is called Medium. It is intended to be a place where a number of different voices can be heard and to some extent curated. It should give the effective blogger additional visibility.
I'm all for trying new things when it comes to technology, so I will be posting the High Tech Tomorrow content on Medium as well to understand how that community works. How does that affect you? Not at all. If you want to keep coming to www.hightechtomorrow.com you can. I will post here primarily and first. But if you happen to be at Medium reading other articles, then you'll be able to see my work there as well.
Like my work there (if you do) and I may rise up above the technology noise. I would like that. To be honest, I have been there for about three weeks and I have no idea how anyone sees any of my articles. A couple of the articles I have posted there have been read and one was recommended, which resulted in a few people following me, but some articles haven't even been viewed, much less read. It is not self-evident how you get read for the first time on Medium. I have had the same experience on Googleplus, I haven't figured that one out yet either. For those of you thinking of writing your own blog, I am currently finding that I get the most traction by putting my posts up on LinkedIn, which sends the readers back here. I get the most traffic from LinkedIn. This whole blog thing is a grand experiment, one that I have been enjoying immensely and learning from, so from time to time I will let you know how it works out on these sites.
You may find it interesting that I have had 809 unique visitors to this site in the first six weeks and a little more than 2,000 page views. I have no point of reference as to what I should expect so I am going to take those numbers as a good thing, particularly in light of the kind of esoteric subject matter I'm writing on and the fact that this blog has given me the opportunity to have some great conversations with several of you. If you get a chance, let me know what you think. I'm all for hearing how I can improve this blog.
I'm all for trying new things when it comes to technology, so I will be posting the High Tech Tomorrow content on Medium as well to understand how that community works. How does that affect you? Not at all. If you want to keep coming to www.hightechtomorrow.com you can. I will post here primarily and first. But if you happen to be at Medium reading other articles, then you'll be able to see my work there as well.
Like my work there (if you do) and I may rise up above the technology noise. I would like that. To be honest, I have been there for about three weeks and I have no idea how anyone sees any of my articles. A couple of the articles I have posted there have been read and one was recommended, which resulted in a few people following me, but some articles haven't even been viewed, much less read. It is not self-evident how you get read for the first time on Medium. I have had the same experience on Googleplus, I haven't figured that one out yet either. For those of you thinking of writing your own blog, I am currently finding that I get the most traction by putting my posts up on LinkedIn, which sends the readers back here. I get the most traffic from LinkedIn. This whole blog thing is a grand experiment, one that I have been enjoying immensely and learning from, so from time to time I will let you know how it works out on these sites.
You may find it interesting that I have had 809 unique visitors to this site in the first six weeks and a little more than 2,000 page views. I have no point of reference as to what I should expect so I am going to take those numbers as a good thing, particularly in light of the kind of esoteric subject matter I'm writing on and the fact that this blog has given me the opportunity to have some great conversations with several of you. If you get a chance, let me know what you think. I'm all for hearing how I can improve this blog.