Here’s the results if you search for @yastech.

…designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level.

At TEDx events, unique talks given by live speakers combine with TEDTalks videos to spark deep conversation and connections. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis.

TEDxSaskatoon is coming in October, 2010. Follow along on Twitter for updates or visit the site to sign up and volunteer.

Taking into account that there are four of us in our group doing the same thing daily and cumulatively having the largest following on Twitter and Facebook, the results have been quite shocking and a little disheartening. Calculating the number of votes we get per day, it’s just over 100. Divided between four of us, that is 25 each. And seeing that I’m voting 5x for myself (one on each browser and one on my phone browser) each day, that’s 20 per day! Seeing that I have 31,815 followers on Twitter alone, that’s 0.06% of my followers that are actually voting (and that’s taking into account that people are voting only once!). Not to mention that I also got the infamous Gary Vaynerchuk to ask his 878,000+ followers to vote and my SEO friend, Dean B to sprinkle it through is network…which got us probably a couple dozen votes in total.

Emphasis mine.

While a karaoke contest isn’t exactly the greatest metric for follower support, it does provide an interesting data set to investigate how loyal your followers/fans are on social networks. As we’ve posted about in the past, visitors to our website from Facebook do seem more inclined to spend longer on your site than Twitter followers do but that doesn’t require any actual action step other than to leave a browser window open.

There’s an interesting discussion in the comments section of that post, including one comment from Erica that confirms what we’ve been seeing with our clients:

My largest asset is my email list. With ~4,000 people on it, it outperforms EVERY other method by thousands of times. Second is my blog’s RSS readership–though they don’t buy as much, they tend to engage.

But I can blast out an email to my list and get hundreds of click-throughs and replies in a matter of minutes. Don’t know what it is about email, but it really is effective, and at this point I think any online business without a list is doing itself a disservice.

Be sure to contact us if you have any questions about how your business could do a better job of engaging with your customers, including starting up an email newsletter.

And be sure to subscribe to our Email Newsletter or RSS feed.

Through it all we’ve listed a ton of local events and connected people with happenings around Saskatoon and Regina. From concerts at Worldfest to Rib Night at Bridges, there’s been an event for anyone and everyone who’s attending the World Juniors.

And while tonight’s gold medal game between Canada and the United States will signal the end of the World Juniors for 2010, we at YasTech wanted to continue building on the success of Juniors2010.ca in a relevant way for Saskatchewan.

Which is why we at YasTech are excited to announce TodayinSK.ca, an all new event listing site for Saskatchewan, focusing initially on the cities of Saskatoon and Regina.

For the time being TodayinSK.ca will continue to hold our coverage of the World Juniors to allow people to see pictures and comment on their experiences at the World Juniors. But in the coming weeks we will be transitioning TodayinSK.ca to focus on events happening in and around Saskatoon and Regina. So you can feel free to continue adding your events to TodayinSK.ca.

We look forward to covering future events for you with TodayinSK.ca as we’ve been doing on Juniors2010.ca.

Go Canada Go!

The goal of BarCampSaskatoon, is to bring together, for an afternoon, people who love technology to talk and to learn. Each person who attends has to be willing to talk about something or volunteer (registration, set-up, teardown, etc.). There will be a number of sessions which will be picked by the attendees at the start of the day.

YasTech is proud to be sponsoring BarCamp Saskatoon this year. We’ll be providing name tags only a geek could love as well as some hardware/software for folks to be able to keep up with what’s happening online.

Registration is free so go register and come out and meet with other folks from around Saskatoon that love technology and where it’s taking us!