Starting on September 1st, covering every working day, I began a thirty day challenge (twitter #30dchallenge) to accomplish a couple of goals:

1. Continue to increase my skills/knowledge of the new SAS 9.2 System
Topics included both versions (SAS 9.1.3 and SAS 9.2), multiple components (SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Management Console, SAS Stored Processes, jBoss, etc), and definetly pushed me to continually learn the systems. There is one thing I know, there is NO way to know it all on this system. So many capabilities, constantly new ideas on how to utilize what is there, and always a new product/change coming out the door.

2. Expand the reach of my SAS BI Blog (calculated by daily hit rates)
It appears that a large increase in viewer ship was garnered, however there was less time on site and pages/visit. I take this to mean that more people are visiting that have visited recently and are checking up on only the new posts. I would strongly challenge other bloggers out there to take on the #30dchallenge for themselves and see the results!

3. Share know-how with others.

Today is post number 150! Can you believe there is that much to share? And during the course of the challenge, I continued to get responses via Twitter (@sasbi) and email (bi-weblog@earthlink.net) on how users found the items helpful and even passed along their findings. Making this a great mechanism to connect with other SAS peeps!

Thanks everyone for keeping an eye on my blog over the past 30 working days. I will continue to post more information as I find it. And if you are interested in sharing something in this location, just send me an email! bi-weblog@earthlink.net.

~ Angela