“Starting soon, your stats page will be on the WordPress.com homepage only”

If you use the wordpress.com blogging service you may have seen this notification already “Starting soon, your stats page will be on the WordPress.com homepage only“, but have you tried the new stats page? I did and it is great. More information, easy to navigate and it looks fantastic. Of course you can still see the “views all-time”, the “views today” and the “views on the busiest day” as well as switching the statistic from “Days” to “Weeks” or to “Months”, but now you can also see for example “Views by Country”, which you can find below the overall statistic.

Before I go into more detail what kind of information you can find below the overall statistic I would like to mention a cool feature. The new WordPress stats page allows you to arrange as well as minimize your extra stats boxes. So you can decide which information are more important to you and need to be directly under the overall statistic and which details can be further below.

The new Facebook Page Timeline

As you may have noticed since the 30th March 2012 Facebook changed all Facebook Pages to the new Timeline format. If this was a good decision is something I don’t know. I personally was excited when I first saw the announcement and changed two pages, I am the administrator for, to the new format, without knowing what I am getting myself into. Soon after the change I did realize some good and also some, in my opinion, bad changes that would effect the Facebook Pages I administrate.

For the better I must say that the overall design is much nicer, well at least that is my opinion. I also like the fact that you can have a big picture on the top and a smaller picture as your profile picture. This is great because now you can create or choose a very nice image for the top and for example your Logo as your profile image. The only downside is that you can not really create a nice Banner which you can also use to advertise your stuff… This made me wonder why Facebook did not allow to do this. I mean it is the Facebook page of your business, isn’t it?

Which brings me to the downside of the new Facebook Page Timeline…

Social media to increase patient safety?

Social media has accomplished a lot of things; created celebrities, added dictionary entries, and provided billion dollar valuations. But did you ever imagine that social media would increase your safety as a patient?

The latest project that I am working on is Patient Safety First BC, and it intends to do just that.

Patient Safety First BC is a public awareness initiative in support of a regulatory college for Medical Radiation and Laboratory Technicians (MRTs and MLTs respectively). These are the people performing MRIs, CT scans, blood tests and more, and yet they are not licensed to practice in BC by a regulatory body. When I have my health at stake, I want to be certain that only the most qualified individuals perform my tests. A regulatory college will ensure that this is always the case.

INTERNeX NAFSA Reception – SEO, Social Media and Online Marketing Strategy by Simok33

What and event, eh? So many people came to the INTERNeX Class of 2011 at the Blarney Stone. We calculated that we had an overall of 400-500 guests during the evening. A School Bus was picking up people from around the Vancouver Convention Centre, as well other receptions. A DJ and a live band was playing fantastic music. The food was great and I had lots of drinks and chats with many amazing people.

The INTERNeX PR team were mainly running the show. Elvera was the host of the evening, Elke was the Gamemaster and Franziska was in charge of the Photo booth. Claudia, who already knew a lot of people, because she went to the NAFSA conference itself, was greeting special guests and was also making sure everyone had a good time.

Goodbye Tazzu

Today I saw on Facebook that Tazzu, Vancouver’s Business and Technology Community, closed it’s virtual doors. I was part of that wonderful community since it started in September 2006 as a phpBB Forum. Many great people joined Tazzu over the years and step by step it became a very important platform to exchange information. But Tazzu wasn’t just a Forum. Tazzu organized as well many network events, WordPress and Joomla Camps as well as the first Joomla day in Canada in 2008, the “Joomla Day Vancouver” where I won a book about Joomla Templates.