October 19, 2010 and I was in a Fox Valley Technical College workshop on blogging, taught by Nikki Kallio. I don't remember exactly why I took that class. I hadn't had much experience with blogs except for an article I wrote about them for a young adult financial magazine, back in the days when the word "blog" was still new.
I started the blog the first day of class and never looked back. With five exceptions, I've posted every day since. In the beginning I had two followers, Nikki and another student in the class. I was writing for myself, not the world. It was a journal.
But over the years, I've gained followers. These days, I average about 225 "hits" a week.
Some time during this night, I will reach another milestone, 25,000 "hits" from around the world. I wonder who it will be.
I joined another piece of social media a week ago: Twitter. I already have six followers who followed me from Facebook. I'm not sure why anyone would be interested in brief messages only 140 characters long, but here I go again. So far I've "tweeted" seventeen times.
All of it is part of publicizing the short stories Wade and I write at Black Coffee Fiction. I now spend an hour on PR each morning, no more no less. I set my oven timer and go of to the world of social media. We can't sell books unless people hear about them.
So who will be my 25,000th visitor?
I started the blog the first day of class and never looked back. With five exceptions, I've posted every day since. In the beginning I had two followers, Nikki and another student in the class. I was writing for myself, not the world. It was a journal.
But over the years, I've gained followers. These days, I average about 225 "hits" a week.
Some time during this night, I will reach another milestone, 25,000 "hits" from around the world. I wonder who it will be.
I joined another piece of social media a week ago: Twitter. I already have six followers who followed me from Facebook. I'm not sure why anyone would be interested in brief messages only 140 characters long, but here I go again. So far I've "tweeted" seventeen times.
All of it is part of publicizing the short stories Wade and I write at Black Coffee Fiction. I now spend an hour on PR each morning, no more no less. I set my oven timer and go of to the world of social media. We can't sell books unless people hear about them.
So who will be my 25,000th visitor?
The blog hit 25,000 viewers at 6:39 a.m. It was rather like watching an odemeter. Thirty thousand here we come!
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