Metapost - My Final Post

Tech-Respect was created in response to a school assignment. To be able to use and understand social media.  I used core concepts displayed in unit lectures such as using external social media connections with facebook and twitter as well as customising my Tumblr blog with HTML & CSS.

Customising the Tumblr blog was definitely the most difficult thing to do. Not because of the coding, but I believe the customise feature in Tumblr needs more compatibility and bug fixing. I had many errors like things not loading properly, reverting to default settings and layout issues. Fortunately I got around these and managed to create the blog as intended.

Adding extra widgets was definitely going to be done as ‘sharing’ in social media is the most important. So I managed to find a great site called AddThis which provides widgets to share to all types of other social media. I also added some HTML to the side bar which displays the 5 most recent posts I have liked, keeping in mind that the stuff I liked was related to my blog. Furthermore, I added a few images from external sites which display statistics related to technology. If these were just plain images then they wouldn’t be there. But the sites update these images frequently hence keeping my content updated.

Statistics:

These statistics were the most significant and combined with Google Analytics, I managed to find out how many views, visitors etc… my blog got. So it got very specific and it helped me in finding out what people like most about what I posted.

Tumblr                                        Google Analytics
               - Posts:       200                                   - Visits:                600
               - Followers: 65                                    - Unique Visitors: 500
               - My Likes:  1200                                 - Page Views:       2500
               - Following: 25
               - Reblogs:    46

My blog was viewed from 45 countries around the world in 9 different browsers and operating systems, including Opera, RockMelt and Playstation 3. Visit percentage is around 67% referral, 25% direct and 8% organic with 8 visits from mobile phones.

Now to display my top 3 most popular posts.

1- An image of a video game replica.  
2- An image of a video game replica made from lego.
3- A gif image of Jellyfish lamps

And these posts prove that Tumblr is all about images and unique and creative content. I also noticed that to get the most views to your posts, you find the days of the week people use social media the most. So…….Friday and the weekend. Because on Tumblr, most people don’t have time to scroll tags for hours until they find what you posted 2 days ago. You want to update when it matters, keeping in mind that what you post needs to be unique.

Overall, I’m happy with the result and surprised to see how quickly my blog spread around the world in such a small amount of time.

It just proves how fast and far, shared Internet content goes. Especially in social media.