The Measure of a Day
Alan has a great post with a summary of highlights from Ye118wDay. One thing not in his list was our relatively quiet upgrade of the BleedYellow environment to Connections 2.0. We've been relatively quiet because the upgrade did not go well, and we're still working with IBM on fixing the outstanding problems. However, there were enough cool new capabilities that we decided not to roll back the update, but soldier on through it. There's a reason the site has a "beta" tag, after all!
I asked Yancy Lent to keep track of PlanetLotus.org stats for 11 Aug, and he was kind enough to email me with them this morning.
Clicks
Aug 11: 6665
Aug 8: 4420
Aug 7: 4923
Aug 6: 5735
Aug 5: 4546
Aug 4: 4044
3rd highest click count since I started keeping track.
109 posts! I'm not sure the average, rough guess is around 50-60. The first ad down is at row 50, i use this to gauge the daily post activity.
So a 50% increase in click-throughs and almost double the number of blog posts. That certainly strikes me as a success, particularly given that the objective here was to create some extra buzz in the Yellow community. We had folks giving away free stuff, publishing podcasts, changing their wardrobe, offering up technical tips and IdeaJam even went yellow for the day! All in all, not bad for two hours of Photoshop work and a few blog posts to ask people to play along.
Here's one thing I promise: there will absolutely, positively be a second Ye118w Day. Go ahead and mark your calendars for 11 Aug 2009.
UPDATE: Oh, and for some, the Yellowbration apparently went a bit too far! Looks like Devin really did end up in Lotus Reno 911! (I wish he'd been able to take the picture at an actual police station, 'because he really was in Reno yesterday.)
UPDATE 2: Forgot to mention that this was definitely a worldwide event! We had participants in every time zone and at least 3 continents. Anyone notice Australian or South American posts?
Comments
Posted by Alan Lepofsky At 11:50:22 AM On 08/12/2008 |
Then I tried going directly to www.devinolson.net, and got:
"HTTP Web Server: Lotus Notes Exception - Database is corrupt -- Cannot allocate space"
Bad omen for next year's Ye118w Day?
Posted by Scott Leis At 11:59:14 PM On 08/12/2008 |