Sometimes I feel like an old geezer when I recall those early days before the PC or the internet. I hate to admit it, but my Yale dissertation was actually typed using an IBM Selectric typewriter. This was not because I was a Luddite. (Luddites were early 19th century English workers who smashed labor saving machines in an effort to save their jobs.) That Selectric typewriter was state of the art at that time. It had a cool feature that allowed you to backspace and erase a typo. In the early days of the internet and websites, companies compared the hits to their site like some macho geek thing. I recently looked at some internet statistics on the GNEMSDC and was, I have to admit, pleasantly surprised to learn that we recorded over 116,000 hits to the www.gnemsdc.org site in January of this year! If we keep that up, we will record over 1 million hits a year! Now I also have to admit, I have no idea what this means relative to other similar sites, but I take some soothing comfort and confidence in my ignorance on this matter because 116,000 hits in a month seems like a lot to me. So, if it seems like a lot to you as well, maybe you want to consider being an Annual Sponsor, becoming a new corporate member or a newly certified MBE, becoming an advertiser on our website, or being featured in our weekly e-newsletter. Just think of the movers and shakers you could reach. Even if you are not an old-timer like myself, you might be still be impressed with these numbers. If you are not impressed and determine that neither should I be impressed, break it to me gently, being nice to seniors is good.
February 8, 2010
