Wow, I see that I joined this system back in February. That is not long, by my standards, but it still seems like I just joined.

I made a forum post here:

http://www.recruitingblogs.com/forum/topic/show?id=502551%3ATopic%3A136510

I was half expecting people to pounce on that thing. It happens. Internet events are 'spiky'. Of course, spiky includes quiet bits and it is unfortunate in this case. I have only one other time attempted to create a 'spike' in traffic and that was years ago. I *did* create the spike and I *did* get something of what I was trying to achieve.

In this case, it was spectacularly unsuccessful. Either I hit a very slow traffic day or I really failed to hit the target. Wrong forum? Wrong place? Wrong pitch? Entirely wrong venue? Beats me. C'est la vie.

As I said elsewhere recently, hard work, diligence and preparedness are neither necessary (sic) nor sufficient (sic) for success. That is what I meant to say, though you might have re-read a couple of times to get it. However, serendipity is hard to control and in the absence of luck, hard work and persistence is all you can bring to bear. I am still plugging away.