I started Moodlemonthly.com late November 2009. I thought of it while I was running (there are many benefits to a solo jog).
While working for GlobalClassroom.us I was collecting a vast repository of information (and tracking new information) on a daily basis. Unfortunately, a huge majority of topics, sources and subjects were unusable (after all, why would a corporate blog trying to advance it’s own agenda talk about the great things that other companies and organizations were doing?). Anyways, I didn’t want to sit on the data so I spend 15 bucks on 2 domains and 80 bucks on a hosting account with Bluehost.com (I am not at all disappointed).
I mapped the RSS to Twitter using Twitterfeed (great service), included some #tags in every post and was off to the races. Literally. Traffic the first month was up something crazy like 1500%. After a predicted leveling off growth is still +100% month over month and this week was the biggest ever.
Here’s a taste of how things are rolling:
The jump this week (which was +1000 hits) was caused exclusively by the leaked photos of a Mobile app for Moodle (the first ever of it’s kind to be this crisp and well received. Things will dip again a bit, but I’m thinking sustained growth will continue (albeit at a lesser clip).
Up and to the right!