Now let’s take your birthday numbers even further to find your personal year in 2015. To find your personal year, add your month and day of birth to the current year. 8+1+7 + 2+0+1+5 =24. (2+4=6) Alex, you are in a 6 personal year.

• We derive the universal year number reducing the numbers of the year that we are currently living in: 2020 = 2 + 0 + 2 + 0 = 4. Then you take the month and day of your birth and reduce it to a root number. For instance, if you were to reduce May 4 to a root number you would get 9. Now you add this number to the Universal Year Number and you get your Personal Year Number: 9 + 4 = 13 1 + 3 = 4.
• The number of times my writing was published in a real-life magazine this year (.insert happy dance.). The number of books written. Yes, I actually finished my first novel at the tail end of last term. When I say finished a read through of some of the sections at my writing group suggested I may still have a.little. bit of work to do.
• The next, 1968 would be 7 personal year; 1969 an 8 personal year, and 1970 a 9 personal year. The year 1971 would be my next 1 personal year making this the year that my life path period changed to 8. In 1995, a 7 personal year for me, I turned 56. My next number 1 personal year came in 1998. This then was the beginning of my third life path.
• 'My Year in Numbers' is a perfect project for math review as you wrap up the school year! Students love doing worksheets that ask them questions about themselves and that have questions guiding them through the special parts of their year. This project is presented via Google Slides so that teachers can edit directions and rubric.

“It was a very good year…”

2015 was a year of growth, change, and development in my professional life in social media marketing. In June of 2014, I left the field of college admission that I loved deeply to pursue new opportunities in social media and digital engagement at my alma mater, the University of New Hampshire. As an active user of social media both personally and professionally, I felt I could learn and succeed in this new challenge, while continuing to “sell” the benefits of higher education. Almost immediately, I found that I loved the work but I would need to learn A LOT in order to keep it all together.

With the #UNHSocial team, I manage most of our UNH Alumni social media and our UNH Admissions social presence, while also providing back-up support and monitoring for the main university accounts. It took a few months to get it together in 2014, but I started to get my feet on the ground and gain confidence in the social space around the start of 2015. In managing these accounts, I was charged with growing the audience for each account, as few, if any, had been used consistently (or at all— I started the admission accounts) by dedicated staff with specific intent in the past.

My Year In Numbers

Developing social media strategies for these accounts to increase followers, increase engagement, and ultimately build digital communities with both target audiences, I began to hit my stride with specific engagement campaigns (e.g. #UNHLove stories), high quality outreach efforts, and maintaining a consistent and steady voice from each account.

Though the size of the audience is not the only statistic of importance (engaging the audience is really the key), I recently pulled the follower numbers for the Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts for our UNH Alumni and UNH Admissions accounts. In the graphs below, you can see the total followers at the beginning of January 2015 and at the beginning of January 2016 for each account, as well as the percentage increase in followers.

Across all networks, followers increased significantly through 2015! Pricing strategy for products. With percentage growth rates for all accounts ranging from 22% to 183% increases, it is abundantly clear that this year was a great year of expanded reach in connecting with prospective and alumni Wildcats.

The vast majority of this growth is a credit to the outstanding work by so many at UNH in the Alumni Association, the Admission Office, and the phenomenal group of content creators in the UNH Communication and Public Affairs office (I’ve affectionately dubbed the #CPAAllStars) and my#UNHSocial teammates. The game product owner challenge games. In seeing these numbers though, I can’t help but take a bit of personal pride in that growth. With a larger audience, we’re able to engage regularly with more from our #UNHAlumni family and the deep pool of prospective students and future Wildcats.

My Year By The Numbers 2020

Thank you to all the colleagues and friends that made 2015 such a successful year for UNH Alumni and UNH Admissions social media accounts, and thus my professional world.

As Frank says…

Cheers to 2016!

My Year By The Numbers Movie

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