The Blogging Puzzle

Blogging on Oahu is still a puzzle but of course that is what makes it interesting. Apparently for us, seven blogs is about it. The first step is to get enough Information Contributors (the Two Centers) willing to stick in their 2 cents for the benefit of their fellow dancers. At this point, Richie Fun in Dancing Night blog is the best example of Guest Author blogging.

"In our Hawaiian dance scene,  there seems to be no greatness unless there is simplicity, goodness and truth."

I am learning about hits on the counters. They can be quite late and wrong. Gradually I have been able to get rid of a lot of  scam, spam robot hits. And comparing the different blogs on a spreadsheet,I can get a pretty good idea of what is going on. Store bought hits have always seemed like the holy grail for the new blogger but in my experience, sites that bring you traffic that doesn’t stay are often a waste of time. Those hits don't stick around for long.

"Evergreen" by Barbra Streisand

I have on several occasions calculated where my point of diminishing returns would be and I have been wrong every time. It is ever changing, in our blogs, out  in the middle of the Pacific, I have calculated that a nice round figure would be about 33 average hits per day which translates to 1000 hits per 30 day month. The neighbor islands send us a few routine flyer emails, but they will soon find the value of blogs and the value of direct communication to all of "our" reader/dancers.

"Every Time We Say Goodbye" by Jimmy Borges

We have been deliberately sabotaged on Maui and Kauai,- something about publishing private letters. So by now many will see what we publish, is just from our readership. I have started several blogs which were deleted after a time simply because they didn't cut it. Less than 10 hits a day is not worth it. I am not going to beat my gums for nothing. Even if the whole enchilada is my hobby.

 Calvin and Hobbes dancing the new Kalihi Stomp.

At any rate, the dancers on Oahu are beginning to realize that we are not an "instead of" newsletters, newspaper, radio and TV advertising. We are an "addition to" and since we are a blog we do not charge for we consider communication to our readers, not advertising. It is gonna take awhile before everyone knows. Ignorance is not the same as stupidity.

"Our great social dancers on Oahu are not great because of

their fancy turns, they are great because they love the

 music and have the passion to move to it."