So! The school year has finally come to an end, all be it a really weird and unexpected one, but an end none the less. Throughout the semester and having this blog to tend to and run, I think it’s appropriate to look back on the time I’ve spent curating content and what I could’ve done differently.
For one thing, I wish I had a more consistent upload schedule with my blog posts. I feel like it was really common for other people with their blogs to rush their assignments on the due date and publish them all at once (like I’m doing with this current assignment ironically), so it would’ve been nice to have some sort of scheduling with posts rather than throwing them up last minute. I most likely could’ve promoted my content way better through posting my content in the communities that care about this content, like if I had promoted my posts in specific subreddits or hashtags that corresponded to my post’s topics.
My best experience was definitely getting to write about something that I’m passionate about, especially in a blogging format! I love writing stories but have mainly kept my writing skills to strictly fiction, so stepping out of my comfort zone to write about real topics was a great exercise for my inner writer. It made me feel awesome to write about these unique experiences I have with gaming and gaming-related topics, and to be able to share that with the world through my blog! I can definitely implement these experiences in my future job, since I fully plan on becoming a copywriter or social media manager in the advertising world! Being able to write about real topics, do the necessary research, and make it compelling and easy to read is a skill I think everyone should have, but especially so for me in the line of work I plan to go into.
As far as actual statistics, it looks like my most popular week was from February 17th to February 23rd, with a total of 49 views and 22 visitors. It looks like my most popular post of the semester was my intro post with 47 views. Kind of odd considering it was my first post, but it was most likely because your intro post is a super important one to have! Especially since this one set the ideas for what people would expect of my blog. It’s just kind of a surprise that my intro post is my most popular, and it kind of makes me feel bad that I’ve veered away from strictly gaming news and more into personal essays around certain things in video games or in the gaming community.
Either way, I this blog was super fun to run, and I loved being able to have something to come back to as easy going and fun school work this semester. It also makes me happy this class adapted so well with the crazy Corona move to online classes, and was super easy to work with since my life got pretty crazy with quarantine. In the end, I can only hope everyone else enjoyed my work just as much as I did writing it.
Digi-Dive! 