The Blog: One Year Later

It’s been a little more than a year since Alyssa Archer, Alison Armstrong, Candice Benjes-Small and I started this little venture that we call the Radford University Women’s Studies Blog.  And, while we have not yet set the interwebs ablaze, we have had a respectable amount of traffic.

According to Blogger, as I write this post, we have had 1860 page views from 10 countries. The vast majority of this traffic has come from Google searches; Facebook posts are a distant second.

Our most popular post has been Anita Hill, 20 Years Later: Sex, Power, and Speaking Truth, with 143 views to date. Second to that, and dear to my heart, is RU’s calendar of Women’s History Month events for March 2012. The popularity of these two posts suggests that we are reaching folks on both local and global issues, as we had hoped.

Some areas for improvement as we head into our second year are: more followers would be nice, right now we have 8, four of whom are us. And, we hope to recruit more guest bloggers. We were very pleased to have LeeAnn Dye write for us last year, and, her post about Eating Disorder Awareness Week is our fifth most read (out of twenty-seven total). Clearly others liked her work, too.

That is pretty much my perspective on the successes and to-do-betters of our first year, dear readers. What comments, criticisms, or suggestions do you have for us?