I met with Michael earlier in the week and he gave me some ideas for tracking the visits to my blog. It's amazing what all I can find out about people just from them clicking into my blogs. It's kinda a bit "big brother"ish. But on the otherhand kind of interesting. Hopefully it will also help me assess how the blog is working, or not working, in the ways I intended. So here's some quick notes about a few options I looked at:
clustrmap: diagrams the visits to your site by where in the world the user is hosted. A little map of the world can be added to your site that pinpoints the locations of your visitors.
feedjit: imports a live traffic feed so you can see the users in a timeline of most recent or currently at your site. There's also a little flag icon next to each line so you can see the country from which that visitor is accessing your site.
sitemeter: a statistical blog summary that allows you to also view how a visitor entered and how they leave your site. It tracks the total number of visits, how many pages they opened and the length of time spent before exiting. There's alot more this site can track as well.
I decided to start with the sitemeter as I'm not anticipating too many international visitors. I was able to set up an account farily easily but ran into a little trouble on getting the link to appear directly on my blog site. There were directions listed for how to do this according to what blog program you use, but the directions given for my program appeared to only get me half way there. So I'll try again later.
**I also created my D2L quiz today on the "FTF and other acronym" blog so I feel good that's done.
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