interactions.org, quantum diaries and social media kevin munday 14 july 2011
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Interactions.org, Quantum Diaries and Social Media
Kevin Munday
14 July 2011
State of Interactions.org
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Current state of Interactions.org
From logs• Averaging
~130K visits from ~50,000 unique sites per month
• Peaked at ~135,000 in May
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Current state of Interactions.org
From Google analytics• Averaging ~30K visits from ~20K unique visitors/month
• Greatest hits (Jan-June) Home page (44%) Blog watch (7%) Image Bank Search (2%) Particle Physics Glossary (1.6%) Photowalk Press release (1.1%)
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Where does traffic come from?
From Google analytics• Direct 44%
• Google 23%
• Links from Fermilab 5%
• Links from QD 2%
What this tells us
• Lots of RSS traffic
• Blogwatch is popular
• Glossary is popular (and needs attention)
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Current state of NewsWire
• ~3,694 subscribers (up 189 since November)
• 31 distributed so far this year
• Constant monitoring during US business hours
• 24/7/365 when arranged and/or notified
The Week of Interactions
• Published every Monday as a digest of weekly postings
• 411 subscribers• Highlights:
News NewsWires Images Video Quantum Diaries
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News
• ~700 news items posted year-to-date, archived and added to RSS this year
Google standing
• No. 1 (of 2,040) for “particle physics news” • No. 1 (of 5MM) for “high energy physics news”• No. 21 (of 36MM) for “particle physics”• No. 6 (of 9.4MM) for “particle physics images”• No. 14 (out of 166MM) for “physics images”
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Home page features
• Lab publications, etc.
• Added to right column
• Day of publishing
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Image bank
• Some collaboration submissions
• Some community submissions
• Added whenever related to release
• Scans regularly• Could still use help
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State of Quantum Diaries
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New model
• Individual Diarists
• Institutions CERN Fermilab Triumf BNL KEK (IN2P3 to come)
• US/LHC
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QD Editor: Chris Knight
• Coordinates adding/managing diarists
• Provide monthly traffic report
• “Hot Topics”
• Manages social media
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QD Stats
From Google Analytics
• ~22,000 visits/month
• ~60,000 page views/month
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State of Social Media
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• @ParticleNews 3,153 followers and
counting
• @Quantum_Diaries 442 Followers
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• 1,212 likes
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Moving forward
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Web committee
• Reconstitute
• Reinvigorate
Expert-level review of content needed.
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Mobile version?
• It’s a small world
• 5% of traffic mobile now
• Will only increase
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What we know
• Higher “bounce rate” (they are looking for one thing)
• iPhone/iPad dominate
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Mobile Interactions.org?
• Simple interface
• RSS-based view of news/press releases
• Lightweight iPhone app
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