Statistic explosion and „Gerrit-Goupie“ – my first blog experiences

Other students in my class call me “Gerrit-Goupie”! Why? Well, my social software teacher, Gerrit van Aaken, did what bloggers do: he’s put my link in his blog and he mentioned the live-blogging I did in his class on Saturday. He  didn’t only put my link in his blog but also posted something on twigger too. Ever since my blog was mentioned in his blog my own blog-stats seem to have exploded! I am not the only “Gerrit-Groupie” with that experience though: Flo, who did some live blogging as well, had a lot more visitors to his profile too. The whole inter-linking seems to work!

 How I found out about it:

It is Monday morning, 8.30 am and I am heading to my first class. I am tired as usual. At least I have my morning coffee from the “Zeitraum-Café” and not one of those coffee machine coffees that consists of hot water and some powdered coffee that never really dilutes and sticks to the bottom of the cup. I love the “Zeitraum-Café”. It reminds me of the Oval-Coffeehouse I used to work for when I was still at the John Abbott College in Montreal. Anyways…

On my first break this morning I slowly walked down the stairs, still tired, when another online-journalism student, Kersten, came up to me and called me “Gerrit-Groupie”. Slightly confused I responded : “what do you mean?”. He told me that I had very many visitors to my blog and most of them went on it because of Gerrit van Aaken’s links to my blog. I didn’t believe him at first but while checking my stats later I found out: he’s right! I never thought people would actually read what I post and I am not sure they do. However it seems like they click on my profile. J I even met some people that were on my blog – even though they don’t know me in person but read my teacher’s blog regularly. It’s so weird to stand in front of somebody who is telling you “hey I know you, you wrote what happened in your class in your blog” – WOW!       

I am surprised at how many people actually seem to click on blogs and I feel honoured that people click on my blog! Especially since it’s only been four days that I have been dealing with the topic of social software and only four days that I have my own blog!

Thank you for your support!

Johanna