On weekdays I hate having nothing to report and right now I'm waiting for some information to flow back to me so I don't have a 'newsy' post, but did want to share this and now seems as good a time as any.
I sometimes forget when posting to NewsOverCoffee that people other than those in Nazareth or concerned about Nazareth read and comment.
Last year I posted that Clay Aiken appeared for an assembly and my site hits shot through the roof when my post was linked to on his official fan site.
Oftentimes I'll get an email when someone references my site so I can see what they've written. It is a nice courtesy, but doesn't always happen.
Recently I wrote about healthcare and specifically the role of insurance as I've experienced (read the post here). The post was spawned from an article I read at work (I'm an association professional employed by a healthcare product marketing association) and a personal medical insurance issue that regularly occurs.
Following the post I got an email from the editor of the publication (noting the link was broken), Pharmaceutical Executive, and I found that the author of the article, Peter Pitts, wrote about my post on his own blog (http://drugwonks.com/) saying, "Here's a really superb example of health care grass roots "social marketing" -- made all the more exciting since it bubbled up all by itself ..." and he linked to my post and included the correct link to his own article.
In searching, I also found MAR's Everything which quoted my post and referenced my site along with several others in an extensive take-off on my comments (read that post here).
I've since set up alerts tracking my own site so hopefully in the future I won't have to search for these instances they will be delivered directly to me. Since I did this after the fact, I don't know who else picked up on it, but it did remind me that while I write for a very specific local audience, it remains a very connected world.
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