Whenever anyone talks about blowing their own trumpet, little is mentioned of the tune that they play. I’d like to think that if I owned a trumpet and were, myself, to blow it, I’d play Zadok The Priest – one of the four Coronation Anthems that Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 1727, and that I only know about because they used it as the theme music for the Champions League. Blowing one’s own trumpet should be all pomp and circumstance, with a rousing, anthemic soundtrack.
As it happens, this entry is all about Westbury blowing our own trumpet, so head on over to youtube for a spot of Zadok The Priest. Or Zorba The Greek if you’d prefer. And if either of those don’t do it for you, how’s about the theme from Super Mario Bros on an 11-string bass?
The reason that we’re blowing our own trumpet is this very blog. We realized it had been six months since we launched the blog, and wanted to send an email around the Westbury campus updating everyone on how we’d done.
Trouble is that it turns out we’d done rather better than expected and so we decided we should show off even more – hence this entry.
In fact, since May Westblog has had:
- 11 contributing bloggers, 2 of whom don’t even work for Westbury
- 30 entries, across 6 categories, with 143 different tags
Actually that’s 31 if you count this one.
Also since August (when we started doing some Google Analytics on the site), Westblog has had:
- 646 unique visitors, with a peak of 25 in one day – on two separate occasions
- 1,576 page views, with a high of 58 on October 5th
All of which ignores those of you who never visit the site but still read the posts from the RSS feed.
I think the stats speak for themselves and hopefully it means that we’re continuing to fill this blog with interesting, enlightening material (apart from this entry which is just shameless self-promotion with some youtube links thrown in to distract you) that you genuinely want to read.
We hope you spread the word to your friends, colleagues and competitors and I hope I can write another entry in May 2010 with even better numbers
Tom
