Reviewing my activities for 2018
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Roughly five months ago I began this journey of being more social, and being more forthcoming with what I have learned and achieved over my years in IT. I am also a big fan of data and statistics. So as we near the end of this year, lets have a look to see if things have improved and where to from here.
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What I started with
We are starting this review with my very first post on this site in July 2018. At that point I had:
- A modest LinkedIn profile - 180 Connections - 17 views over 90 days
- A small Twitter profile - 25 Followers - 2 Tweets in 30 days - 260 Impressions
- No GitHub presence - Empty
- A small traffic Website - 16 Users in 30 Days
Fairly small, so lets have a quick look at that statistics now before delving into what I have done with each item.
- My LinkedIn profile - 194 Connections - 29 views over 90 days - 143 Post views
- My Twitter profile - 96 Followers - 76 Tweets in 30 days - 30,200 Impressions - 375 Profile Visits
- My GitHub presence - 1 Repository with an additional contribute
- My Website - 72 Users and 142 Sessions over the last 30 days
So as you can see, it is starting to increase slowly, lets have a look at what I have been doing.
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Twitter has probably been the biggest change for me, and while a fair few of these tweets have been discussions driven by University classes and work, a fair few have been IT related as well. As you can see, most of my tweet activity hovers still pretty low, normally around the 500 impressions mark if I use an appropriate hash tag. I am relatively happy with that to be honest, but as I keep improving I’ll look to increase that over the next year.
You can see from the statistics as well that there is a large blip in the middle of the 30 days. That was a bit of an anomaly where I posted the following tweet after reading Scott Hanselman’s (A .Net developer I follow) blog post which he re-tweeted.
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Most of this action was because I tagged Scott in the Twitter post. This was quite effective and will have to do this on occasion again when I read interesting articles as it benefits me from a getting views perspective and benefits him from an independent verification of his work perspective. Like everything though I am only going to do this if I find the content compelling. Too much of this would feel a bit wrong and I think lose its value.
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I haven’t particularly focused on my LinkedIn presence at this stage, I have mainly just improved my summary and my work history to better surface myself on that platform. For next year I think I will start cross posting more of my technical work that I write about on my blog. I view LinkedIn as more of a “this is my paid work history” platform and I’ll need to change that next year.
My Website and Blog
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My website and blog is really starting to come along even for the limited work I have done with it. I get a few visitors each day which is pretty cool in my limited scope so I’m really trying to nail down a posting schedule. Part of the concern I have with my blog is that I really have a tendency to craft every single sentence of every post and I think I am hoping experience writing in this form will help address that.
I also have a few ideas to increase the scope of my blog and also start a secondary web and blog site that I can use to focus on some subjects that aren’t particularly focused around what I do, mainly storytelling and video games. I also need to look at me retention and the pages people access to craft better content.
Goals for next year
As mentioned there throughout this post there are a number of goals for the next 12 months. These are:
- Get into a better habit with Twitter and increase my post count a bit more
- Try to actively push my Twitter account to increase my follow count
- Get into a better blog writing habit, aiming for weekly blog posts and be more structured with my writing
- Launch my secondary site after University finishes to focus on some of my other interests - story telling and video games
- Start posting my more work related content onto LinkedIn as a platform
- Look at producing content that others can use, such as code and tutorials