Interactions.org InterAction Collaboration DESY 9 October, 2006 Anne Mieke van den Bergen

InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen 12 August, 2003: The Launch Mission Not only to support the international science of particle physics but to set visible footprints for peaceful collaboration across all borders. Goal Interactions.org is designed to serve as a central resource for communicators of particle physics. 9 October, 2006 InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen

InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen 2004 Visitors per month growing from 17,000 to 29,000 979 news wire subscribers from 47 countries Work spaces for: U.S. Linear Collider Commication Group Cosmos Committee Study of the Physics of Neutrinos Interactions.org brochure 9 October, 2006 InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen

InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen 2005 Quantum Diaries Visitors growing from 35,000 to 70,000 LHC Communication Web site home for reports like Quantum Universe 9 October, 2006 InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen

InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen 2006 InterAction Collaboration Argonne National Laboratory Brookhaven National Laboratory DAPNIA CEA-Saclay laboratory CCLRC / Rutherfort Appleton Laboratory DESY CERN Fermilab KEK ILC GDE INFN: Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso INFN: Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati IN2P3 IHEP, Beijing Institute of Particle Physics Canada newest member INFN Jefferson Laboratory JINR, Dubna LEPP at Cornell University Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory NIKHEF PPARC SLAC TRIUMF 23 members from 11 countries 9 October, 2006 InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen

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Web site visitor information 9 October, 2006 InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen

Interactions.org news wire 2,073 subscribers from 72 countries Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puorto Rico, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tunesie, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, U.S.A., Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe 9 October, 2006 InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen

InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen Rss feed particle physics news articles distributed news wires requests: June 15,000, July 15,000, August 16,000 (we don’t know what those numbers mean exactly, but at least they’re growing…) 9 October, 2006 InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen

InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen Monthly Update statistics top ten visited pages top referring sites top search strings Google ranking results image bank additions news wires distributed subscribed science writers/journalists featured items other activities 9 October, 2006 InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen

InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen A new idea A survey Why? 3 years since launch. What does our target audience find about the Web site? What can we improve? Target audience? news wire subscribers 9 October, 2006 InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen

InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen A new idea A Week of Interactions A weekly update including links to all particle physics news stories, news wires, new images and features posted to Interactions.org during the previous week. 24-30 September, 2006 1-7 October, 2006 9 October, 2006 InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen

InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen A new idea Weekly column on homepage Rotating InterAction Collaboration writing about life at their lab, working on the LHC/ILC/neutrino experiments/etc., writing about science communication. Adding faces to the InterAction Collaboration Key question: Is Interactions.org about ‘just’ facts, news, images and information? 9 October, 2006 InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen

InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen Future Projects Update resources (speakers list, talks database) Update Physics & Society (articles & reports) 9 October, 2006 InterAction at DESY - Anne Mieke van den Bergen