Failing Enterprise Blog 2006-06

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The Admin talks about our online community

Tuesday, June 27th

I've made a few more upgrades to the site recently.

1.  Due to increasing discussion board traffic, I've added some more forums:

07 - Orlando, Florida
09 - Dallas, Texas
30 - Central California
35 - Southwest Florida
43 - Jacksonville, Florida
65 - North Texas

This means we now have something like 47 individual forums for specific Enterprise Groups!  We've got most of them covered.  There are still, however, a few groups we've essentially never heard from.

2.  I'm experimenting with a ShoutBox at the top of the forum home page.  It works like a public chat room.  All that's required is that you be logged in.

3.  At the bottom of the discussion board home page I've added some "Top 10" statistics, with a link to a page containing even more information

4.  Under the "What's Going On" section near the bottom of the discussion board home page, I've added a piece that counts and lists the registered members who've been active in the last 24 hours.

With a few days left in June, it looks like we're going to be setting some new traffic records again this month, particularly with Sites and Visits.  We'll know more by the end of the week.

Saturday, June 10th

I added ten new forums representing individual groups today in the discussion board:

14 - New Orleans
15 - Chicago
23 - Northern CA
38 - Ohio
40 - Western PA
42 - Tampa
55 - AL, GA, MS, FL
C3 - Ottawa
C5 - Alberta
SC - Scotland

Now that we've got over 45,000 posts on the discussion board, there are enough threads and posts dedicated to each of these groups to warrant individual forums.

Thursday, June 1st

The traffic statistics are in for May.  We were visited by 20,901 unique hosts last month, a new record.

We're allowing unregistered visitors to post again.  Enterprise management seems to be doing a fairly effective job of frightening employees about visiting or posting here, so having the ability to post without any username at all is still popular.

The site's been up for two and a half years and Enterprise still isn't showing many signs of "getting it" yet.  Let's see what the next two and a half years brings.

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