Navel gazing (ney-vuhl-gey-zing] –noun, slang. 1. Excessive absorption in self-analysis or focus on a single issue. 2. An activity conducted by a group that is overly interested in itself, such as a movie about Hollywood or a TV show about TV writers.
I suppose a blog post about a blog would constitute navel gazing, but I hope you’ll indulge me on CBC’s 1st month anniversary. As a family therapist I can easily justify this endeavor by reframing it as “going meta” to the system (tip of the hat to Mr. Bateson).
Here are a few stats:
-The blog has been visited by 720 unique users,
-We’ve posted 17 blogs by 10 authors,
-Total traffic for the CFHA website is up 70% compared to the previous month,
-The blog’s busiest day was September 16th, when we had 191 hits,
Special thanks to our esteemed blog authors. Your insight and scholarship inform our movement and keep people coming back:
-Sandy Blount
-Frank deGruy
-Bill Doherty
-Peter Fifield
-Jennifer Hodgson
-Rusty Kallenberg
-Larry Mauksch
-Ben Miller
-JoEllen Patterson
The one area I’d like to see change is an increase in comments from readership. We know that lots of people read the blog, but a much smaller group of us are adding our 2¢ (gratefully, Ben Miller is up to about $2 by now). I believe that the log-in function has contributed to this problem. We’ve looked into this and for the time being, it would be too expensive to remove the log-in. As a work-around, we’ve created a guest log-in (username: “visitor”, password: “visitor”). Please feel free to use it.
Please provide insights regarding how to improve the blog. What do you like best? What do you like least?
Thanks for blogging with us, and I promise not to engage in overt omphaloskepsis again until baby blog’s 1st birthday.