interactions.org, quantum diaries and social media kevin munday 19 november 2012
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Interactions.org, Quantum Diaries and Social Media
Kevin Munday
19 November 2012
Our committee
• Till Mundzeck (DESY)• Corinne Mosese (STFC)• Kelen Tuttle (SLAC)• Rika Takahashi (KEK)• Kevin Munday (Xeno Media)
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State of Interactions.org
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Current state of Interactions.org
From Google analytics• Averaging ~22K visits from
~10K unique visitors/month
• Greatest hits (July to-date) Home page (85K) Newest images (80K) Blog watch (17K) Image bank search (4K) Glossary (4K)
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Where does traffic come from?
• Direct 46K• Search 30K• Referral 29K
FNAL Columbia Google Facebook Twitter Linearcollider.org Quantum Diaries US/LHC
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Google Keyword searches
• Interactions.org• Interactions• Wolf-Dieter Schlatter• Particle physics news• Particle News• Dark Matter
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Current state of NewsWire
• ~4,144 subscribers (up 129)
• 90 distributed so far this year
• Direct pickup by Google News
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As we’re at it
Babar NewsWire
Reddit Post/Google News
2,798 views of press release
The Week of Interactions
• Published every Monday as a digest of weekly postings
• 414 subscribers• Highlights:
News NewsWires Images Video Quantum Diaries
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News
• ~800 news items posted year-to-date, archived and added to RSS this year
State of Quantum Diaries
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QD StatsFrom Google
Analytics
• ~1,650 visitors/day
• 75-80,000 views/month
• 50,490 visits from 43,384 visitors on 4 July
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State of Social Media
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• @ParticleNews 6,759 (+557)
followers and counting
• @Quantum_Diaries 2,518 (+852) Twitter
followers
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• 2,585 (+632) likes on Facebook
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Enhancements since May
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Migration to new web server
• All systems migrated Interactions (CMS) Beacons (Drupal) Quantum Diaries (WordPress)
• High-performance, dedicated server
• Planned to aid Quantum Diaries in advance of Higgs seminar
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Beacons of Discovery
• Adding German version this week
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Physics for Cats
• From last meeting
• New site refers to Beacons
• 276 referrals
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Content enhancements
• Focus on key audiences: Press, community and communicators
• Streamline navigation
• Clarify policies and instructions
• General content cleaning and editing
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Content enhancement
• About Us section in French and Chinese
• Send more!
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