Progress

The first month of the city manager blog and Facebook page quietly passed at 12:01 a.m. this morning without much fanfare - no cakes, balloons, parties, or anything – shoot, I wasn’t even awake to toast the occasion.  But since you’ve been kind enough to look at what is being written during the first 30 days, I thought the courtesy should be returned by sharing with you page activities during the inaugural month.  So here goes. 

Fifteen blogs were posted in July with 512 page views from five countries led by the United States followed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Spain, and the Philippines.  The blog has eight followers – including myself – so really only seven.  I’ll remove myself from that group as soon as I figure out how to do so.  Thanks to you that were willing to share that with me.

The Facebook page had 8,000 post views in July with 123 active users.  Sixty-one people liked the page, two of whom hailed from Canada (special thanks to you).  Demographically, 52% of the viewers were female leaving, you guessed it, 48% male.  The age categories with the highest percentage of viewers (tied at 15% each) include females between age 25-34 and 45-54, and males over age 55. Sixty-two people have signed-on as friends/ followers/ what-ever’s – thanks to each of you too.

So how do I assess month one?  Since I didn’t have a single-page or post view before July 1 – I’d say we’re off to a good start.

And never forget that there are two ways to measure progress – one way is to measure where you are today compared to where you were when you started; the second way is measure where you want to be compared to where you started.  While we’ve made progress – thanks to you - we’re still a long where from where we plan to be.  peace