Walk the walk

New Website:

After getting done with finals I had so much free time, I didn't know what to do with myself so I decided to update my website. In 15 hours I re-learned about html and css and came up with a pretty cool site for a pretty cool guy! Take a look at it, and let me know what you think!

Google Analytics:

I subscribed to Google Analytics for

free and started following my web visitors to see what they were up to.

Apparently I have a following in Russia.

Anyway, viewers visit all four of my pages and spend about six minutes on my site. Not bad. I attached this image you so can see the flow on my site. The orange part means my visitor left. By learning that they didn't like the markup section, I decided to remove it and improve the parts where visitors were engaged.

Moat:

Yeah, so, while doing all my research and programming I came to the conclusion that I am surrounded by a moat. This is actually pretty cool because if there was ever an event that caused city wide social uprisings, I would be protected. Also, we have enough water and food on the boat that would allow us to survive for a couple of weeks while the city calms down. Pretty cool huh!? Anyway, I think all of this free time away from school is getting my imagination running. I should go read a book.

And now, a picture of Maracas and the holiday spirit!

Digital Footprint

I would consider myself a pretty tech savvy person. I have been great with computers since I had my first one at the age of 12. I have followed the latest trends. I read the right magazines. I am considered an early adopter and an innovator. Etc.

However, since I moved to Mexico to start a company and I dedicated so much of my time to getting it started and running, I missed out on this whole social media and digital footprint stuff. It wasn't until I started my MBA that I was reintroduced to the subject. I have to admit, it has taken me a while to fully immerse myself into it, but now that I am discovering how important having a digital footprint really is, I am trying to get updated as soon as possible. In two weeks, I have become an active blogger on my MBA Admissions Site (http://management.bu.edu/graduate/graduate-life/student-blog/), I have started twitting @carlpalme, and I received a #klout score of 26 which I hope is good for a noob.

Anyway, we are all so incredibly connected, that it is important to stay up to date with any and all current technologies. I am proud to say that even though I was out of the loop for a little bit, I was able to jump right back in. I will be blogging more about the MBA and my discoveries with social media, about my life on a boat, and about any and all random things. For now, here is a picture of my wife, my dog, and me on the Charles River: