Update/Roundup

Busy, busy week so far and some of my plans to roll out new web enhancements and add-ons are on hold. I've begun the process of starting the new ACE Blog but I would like to bring a few older posts over to the new location and I have some customization to do as well (logos, title bar, layout, etc.). For now it is in Beta release to borrow a popular tech testing term. The new location is: http://aceblog2.blogspot.com/. I am sticking with Blogger because my other blogs are there as well (this one and a fitness blog I write). Eventually the address aceblog.acecomputernj.com will point there as well but you can add that to the list of deferred work this week.

My social experiment with Facebook & Twitter at my full time job was a smashing success. My expectations for each were low and the reaction to both exceeded those expectations. I set up a Facebook page for an organization and a Twitter feed for the same. After doing so I sent an email out to the organization with some information - about seven items in all - and included there was the Facebook and Twitter information and links. The Facebook site now has 67 "fans" including myself. Twitter has 25 "followers", although some of those 25 were not people targeted by the email but rather news sources that I felt would help get me content to re-tweet. All in all a great reaction to the email. Almost all of those additions came Monday when I sent the email. This was nice in that it told me people not only read the email I send - they are willing to act on items included.

I am posting news and updates for the organization to both sites. Twitter is the more interesting of the two. I noticed more than 90% of the followers appeared to be new Twitter members - no posts, or just one or two recent posts here and there. So this experiment actually got them to join Twitter (as it appears). Very cool. I have elected to follow all of them as well. Hopefully they will use Twitter and post updates because I look forward to learning about them as well to help craft future posts, ideas and programs.