Preliminary Conclusions

At the start of June 2008, I tested out an idea. I created a blog that a group of friends and I could post to in order to help us stay in touch after graduation from Colby College. My theory was that instead of writing many similar emails to different people, a task we would never be able to keep up with, we could all write posts to everyone. In this way, I hoped we would stay in touch. It was a forum for all to post to a couple times each month with updates on what was going on.

In the nearly ten months since its creation, that blog, “The Adventures of Colby 2008,” has been successful in some ways, and it has been disappointing in others. It is a success in that I am not the only person who checks it. Since I installed a hit counter in July, the site has been visited 635 times. That means that some people are definitely looking at it. It also means that some of these friends want to know what everyone else is up to. It has been disappointing in that only a few people continue to post on it. Posts are infrequent at this point, and I get the sense that many of the original members have forgotten about it. This means that ultimately, we have not stayed in touch very well. The blog has not served its purpose.

Although this experiment has not been entirely, successful, it has helped some of the members keep tabs on each other. I am happy that I was able to facilitate this. I will continue to post on this blog occasionally, and I hope that others will as well. I am launching my own website soon that will include a blog. It will afford me more creativity and control over the content. When it is ready, I will post a link on this blog. I will maintain both sites as long as they are serving their purpose in some way.

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