My Blog Milestone: 5,000 Visitors And Counting….

Today is my blog’s two month anniversary and I am happy to report that as of today, over 5,000 visitors have came to my site. For sure, this would not have been possible without Edison Chen –So to really highlight his impact on my site, I’d like to share some interesting statistics

Top Posts

• Notes On The Edison Chen Sex Scandal, 984 views
• More Notes On The Edison Chen Scandal (A Follow-Up), 907 views
• “Edison, Shoot Me Too!” T-Shirt Collection, 518 views

Bare with me as I think out loud — I reached my first milestone of 1,000 visitors in only a week and a half after starting my blog. But after reaching this rapid “peak” my per day visitor count has dropped significantly. As predicted, Edison and company has decreased as a popular search term to draw people to my blog. Likewise, Jeff Ma and Robert Irvine have not had nearly the same kind of impact. This just goes to show that sex and scandals sell very well.

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While it seems that people have taken a liking to my “public relations notes” on life and news/gossip, my first post about Edison Chen continues to be a very tough act to follow, though my second post about Edison Chen is equally popular. So this leads me to conclude that I either need to follow Edison Chen’s every move until I am bored out of my mind or to seek out the next big thing on the Asian tabloids and write my P.R. heart out……any thoughts?

But seriously, I think that this just means that I need to refine my blog and focus its content and themes. If I learned anything at the BlogHER Business Conference, its that the most successful blogs are not personal blogs (unless you are really ready to bare your soul to the world without any misgivings like Heather B. Armstrong of www.dooce.com). Instead they have a consistent theme and a community around them. So stay tuned as I do some spring cleaning.

New York City, Goodbye For Now….

So, I am finally home and it is 7:33am PT / 10:33am ET. I realize that I have not blogged since I left the airport going to NYC, but that’s partially due to a rather poor a Wi-Fi connection at the conference (especially for Mac users) along with a rather costly in-room Internet connection via Ethernet cable (I’d only consider paying if I could at least go online from bed rather than be strapped down to a desk).

The other reason is that I kinda wanted to spend my free time before/in-between/after the BlogHER conference exploring the city, eating new foods or sleeping.

But now that I am back, here’s what you will look forward to reading once I finish unpacking and re-cooping:

• BlogHER Conference: While I won’t be providing a detailed recap (there were live bloggers who took care of that), there were definitely a few good points worth noting.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Loved the Costume Institute, but I was very disappointed at not being able to see the Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters (long story why).
• The Museum of Sex: Interesting and surprisingly educational
• Flor de Mayo: Cuban/Peruvian Chinese food and Chinese people who speak Spanish, who knew?
• SOHO: Only two set destinations here, Muji and Uniqlo
• Trapeze School New York: How I fulfilled my dream to fly

Stayed tuned….

Mission Accepted: BlogHer Business 2008

It has been confirmed. I’ll be heading to New York City in early April on official company business to attend the BlogHer Business 2008 Conference.

Wow. I really feel lucky to be paid to travel, learn more about blogging & social media for businesses and meet fellow bloggers. FYI: BlogHer is a very large and influential network of women bloggers. Since 2005, this organization has hosted an annual blogging conference. This is the first year that they will be hosting a conference especially for companies looking to learn more about applying blogging and social media to their businesses.

While I wouldn’t go as far as to say that this is how it is when you work in-house (it really depends on your company and their PR budget and initiatives), it does dispel any myths that “you don’t have any opportunities to learn anything new” because you are supposedly doing the same thing everyday.

That being said, I’ll be blogging about the conference in a few weeks. Stay tuned.