Our BDPA Foundation Blog just passed the 300-post milestone this weekend. We began on this blogging journey on August 16, 2007. This is my second blogging effort. I created the Electronic Village (BBR #27) back in January 2007. Admittedly, the BDPA Foundation Blog (BBR #448) has a smaller niche audience than the Electronic Village, however, I'm still disappointed in the results from this blog to date. I'll need to do much better over the next 300 posts...
My overall goal with this blog is to provide information and discussion about BDPA that gives people a reason to financially support our non-profit foundation. BDPA exists to advance the careers of African Americans in the information technology industry from the 'classroom to the boardroom'. The BDPA Foundation wants to fund BDPA programs and services ... especially those related to our youth.
I encourage all of you to subscribe to BDPA Foundation Blog so that you won't miss o
ur positive growth over the coming weeks and months! Currently, we have 19 subscribers to our blog. I hope to increase that number to over 100 by mid-year. If you like the flow of our blog ... then I encourage you to subscribe today!Our favorite topics over the past 300 posts have focused on program meetings, BDPA Cincinnati chapter and BDPA Philadelphia chapter.
This blog averages 29 visitors a day right now with 56 daily page views. I'm told that BDPA members appreciate the information that is shared here. I want to thank each of you that takes a moment of your day to view our daily blog updates. Personally, I believe you get what you measure. We track our metrics to show when we've done our best (see date in parenthesis):
- Highest Feedburner Subscribers - 22 (2/20/08)
- BlogCatalog Ranking - 41.3 out of 100 (12/6/07)
- Highest Technorati Authority Ranking - 23 (2/18/08)
- # Blogs Between BETF-Blog and #1 Blog in the World - 360,865 (2/18/08)
- # Blogs Linking to BETF-Blog - 72 (4/8/08)
- # Bloggers listing us as a 'favorite' - 7 (12/1/07)
- Top Daily Visitors101 (3/3/08)
I hope that you will regularly visit with us and POST COMMENTS so that we know what you're thinking. With your support we can grow our organization, our foundation and our blog! Asante sana!
2 comments:
The solution for BDPA is to sponsor a near nation wide technology initiative. We need major media exposure to attract the big bucks. Black Family Technology Awareness Week is a start but we need something even bigger. We need an event that solves one of the big concerns of Americans. It would be an event dealing with education or improving the neighborhoods. Not sure the exact details but I believe this is a good starting point.
Cliff - Your points are well-taken. Will your chapter president bring this issue up at the upcoming NBOD meeting in Philadelphia? Are there ways that you/your chapter can demonstrate this initiative on local level?
If there is anything that we can do to support your efforts from the BDPA Foundation ... just let me know...
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