Things About The Internet

February 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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I posted a video last weekend that we made about a month ago. We were pretty excited about getting some video up here on the site. It seems that everything I have been reading about the internet for the last year has been talking about video and how its the future and all. But here is my rub, I don’t know if you have been over to the Do Some Good Now site lately but we are now pushing 7000 visitors. Which is pretty cool! Here is the thing, out of 7000 people only 290 watched the video… Only 290, I am going to get a calculator and check the percentage on that… It’s only 4%!! That is way too low. So we are not as bursting at the seams to get video published anymore. Oh well, you live and learn right? We are going to keep at the blog and the Burkina Faso posts. Because after all 18,000 page views per month is not bad for a little developer like LJUrban.

Another thing we learned is that 100,000 is a really big number. The Do Some Good now site now says we are going to train a mason for every 100,000 visitors. We shot that high because we keep hearing stories of people who have that many hits in one day from a big blog posting about them. Well we have had several good size blogs link to us and we are just not seeing 100,000. So starting in the next few days (as soon as we get our site team to make the change) we are going to make that number 10,000! Look for those trained masons to start racking up very soon.

Here are just a few of the links we got on the Do Some Good Now site.

I am sure there are more I am missing here but this is a good example of the reception we are getting.

Thanks to everyone who posted about Do Some Good Now, You are the best in my world!

Levi

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3 responses so far ↓

1 randy // Feb 27, 2008 at 6:04 am

You know im not too huge on video myself, but it because my computer cant handle it well enough so I dont watch video.

Im glad to see things are going well. And never get rid of the blog. I think this platform of communication is one of the greatest since email.

by the way, just wanted to say the site looks great.
2 Steve // Feb 28, 2008 at 8:34 am

I am proud to say that I was one of the 290! I like video, and video-centric sites like Ted represent a “surfing” audience’s inclination to watching little bits and blurbs online.

It’s possible that the low viewing rate may have been in how the clip was framed / presented. I think that when things are framed around a concrete point and leave little room for ambiguity, people would be very interested in reading or watching. This blog is testament enough!! Folks dig it, so they read it

I’m staying tuned for more great updates on the mason project.
3 trishadev // Feb 28, 2008 at 9:50 pm

Wow, that’s so amazing all the links - people are really grabbing onto this and running with it. Blessings to you guys for what you are doing!!!!