Saturday, March 5, 2011

2 Years of Toastmaster Speaks

It is now exactly 2 years since I started tracking the performance of this blog through Google Analytics.
Here is how this blog performed over the last year (Mar 1 2010  - Feb 28 2011):
  • Unique Visitors: 3462  i.e. 9 -10 visitors per day [Last Year : 2386  (6-7 visitors per day).]
  • Visitors came from 83 countries [Last Year: 72]
  • Page Views : 7961 [Last Year :   6205]
  • Top 5 page views were for the following speeches:
       
    1. Ragging - A Learning Experience (934 Page views): This was my CC  Project 5 Speech, where I spoke about how I was ragged as a first year engineering student at NITK, Surathkal (then KREC, Surathkal).
    2. The Blog Home Page727 Page views.  
    3. Mobile Phones - Early Days: (527 page views) This was my CC Project 2 speech. At that time I was working for Freescale and our business unit was developing wireless software for mobile phones. So I had enough background to speak on the story of how mobile phones evolved. 
    4. Cherished Childhood Moments: (486 Page views) This was my Icebreaker Speech from the CC Manual, where I relived my  good old carefree childhood days.
    5. Project 10 Speech - The Three Essential Qualities of a Toastmaster: (441 Page Views): I spoke about how I prepared and delivered all the 10 speeches from the CC manual and what qualities a Toastmaster needs to have to achieve this feat. 
Top 4 in the above list also featured in last years Top 5 Views in the same order (except  No.3 &  No. 4 which got switched over).  
No.5 is the new entrant, replacing last year.s No. 5 Wisdom, Wisdom Everywhere: ( my CC Project 8 speech based on some soul-stirring stories and articles from  the book "Like the Flowing River " by Paulo Coelho. I have posted my review of this book in "Bookworm Reads", the other blog I write.)

One of the visitor to this blog , liked it well enough to invite me to write a guest post in his blog.
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