Signing Off From TMCnet

May 30, 2006

Dear Reader,

Today is my last day as editorial director for TMCnet. It's been a privilege to hold this position since October 2004 and to see TMCnet grow in prominence and strength as a technology web site.

Since October 2004, TMCnet has:

grown from 2,799,911 page views to 16,838,125 page views per month
grown from 265,588 unique visitors to 1,053,840 unique visitors per month
dropped its Alexa ranking from 10,925 to 1,347 (on Alexa, dropping is good, and this figure means TMCnet is approaching the top 1,000 web sites in the world)

This growth is due to the skills and hard work of the TMCnet web team, as well as the editorial, administrative, marketing and sales people who support it -- and to the wisdom, diligence and tenacity of the TMC executive leadership. I thank all of these people for allowing me to be a part of the TMCnet phenomenon for the past 20 months.

In case you are wondering, I will be moving away from the New England area and plan to do consulting and freelancing, especially in the area of organizational innovation. If you would like to keep in touch, please visit my current projects:

Broad Mountain Associates -- http://www.broadmountain.com

The Reluctant Geek blog -- http://www.reluctantgeek.com

The Reluctant Guru blog -- http://www.reluctantguru.com

Thanks for following this blog. Two more entries should be appearing tomorrow morning, reporting on some breaking news from a major technology company having to do with its activities in the digital content arena.

Regards,

AB -- 5/30/06