Report on my #SquareTag experiment
A quick report on my little SquareTag blogtagging experiment …
Thanks to all who participated. Â I received about 20 responses, from eight states, plus the District of Columbia and Scotland. Â I was able to connect with most of the people who responded. Â However, since the SquareTag web app wasn’t optimized for collecting contact information, I still don’t know where some respondents were located. Â I enjoyed getting geotag information on several responses, but I didn’t receive geotag information on others, presumably since the respondent didn’t approve of sending the location information.
A few other points were interesting:
The attention span of social media users is short. Â There were a few respondents each day I announced the experiment on Twitter, but then the response rate quickly fell to zero.
Even though the invitation still remains in the header of my blog, I haven’t received any responses for several days. Â That probably means two things:Â
- Very few people visit my blog
- Those who do visit aren’t  very interested in an arcane blog tag experiment.
That’s ok. Â I am used to living in the long tail.
I want to thank Phil Windley and a couple of people from his team who helped me. They were very supportive, and I got to understand their intriguing technology platform a bit more.  I will send a few suggestions their way, and hope to stay in close touch as the technology matures.
I plan to keep the SquareTag in the blog header for awhile, to see if someone, on the odd chance, is still interested. Â So, if you are so inclined, feel free to scan or click the SquareTag.
Just out of curiosity, I would suggest trying the same experiment via Facebook, tag your kids and perhaps a few other select individuals and ask them to scan and to share the invitation with their friends. Would be interesting to see the comparison.