It’s always interesting when a neighbor has an open house.  I (not my wife at all) want to go and check it out.

I want to see their house and their stuff and I want to know how much they’re asking.  After all…it’s important right.  My house’s value will depend on what they’re asking and what they actually get.  I’m just being responsible right?!

This webpage has been sort of an experiment and I’ve been having a ton of fun doing it.  Months ago I met with John Saddington (Human3rror) to talk about this concept.  It has grown and changed over the last few months.  One of the opportunities that materialized was the chance to do a breakout with John about this page at The Orange Conference.  The topic of the breakout is blogging and we’re using this blog as a case study.  I knew absolutely nothing about blogging a few short months ago and John has been guiding me from day 1.  So, I thought it might be fun, if you like to follow this sort of thing, to give you an update on progress and thoughts on what I’ve learned each week until we do that breakout.  This is literally a “Blogging for Dummies” sort of situation.

So…If you’re one of those neighbors that wants to come to the open house just to see what is going on in the house and how much their asking…Welcome.

If you are considereing a blog, I hope this, and the blogs like this in the future are helpful.

Come on out to Orange and we can put a bow on this thing and talk about all we’ve learned.

Some Quick thoughts and stats:

• Site visits as of Jan 25: 2036    RSS subscribers as of Jan 25:  I have no idea how to check this yet!

• Clicking the publishing button is harder than I thought.  It’s strange to go public with your thoughts.

• Quality of the post doesn’t seem to be important for initial traffic.  Relationships seem to be what drives it now.

• “Who do you know?” and “Who do they know is very important?”  I’m guessing quality will be important to sustain traffic.  No idea how people see my quality yet.

• Twitter is important as a traffic generator.  My biggest days (280 ish) can be traced to retweets.

• Facebook is important.

• Twitter and Facebook seem to be hitting two different audiences.

If you have any questions…post them below.  I’d love to know what you guys are thinking.