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) 2
State of Interactions.org 3
4 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)
5 Where does traffic come from? Direct 46K Search 30K Referral 29K FNAL Columbia Google Facebook Twitter Linearcollider.org Quantum Diaries US/LHC
6 Google Keyword searches Interactions.org Interactions Wolf-Dieter Schlatter Particle physics news Particle News Dark Matter
7 Current state of NewsWire ~4,144 subscribers (up 129) 90 distributed so far this year Direct pickup by Google News
8 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 9
10 News ~800 news items posted year-to-date, archived and added to RSS this year
State of Quantum Diaries 11
QD Stats From Google Analytics ~1,650 visitors/day 75-80,000 views/month 50,490 visits from 43,384 visitors on 4 July 12
State of Social Media 13
6,759 (+557) followers and 2,518 (+852) Twitter followers 14
Facebook 2,585 (+632) likes on Facebook 15
Enhancements since May 16
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 17
Beacons of Discovery Adding German version this week 18
Physics for Cats From last meeting New site refers to Beacons 276 referrals 19
Content enhancements Focus on key audiences: Press, community and communicators Streamline navigation Clarify policies and instructions General content cleaning and editing 20
Content enhancement About Us section in French and Chinese Send more! 21
Feedback? Handy hotlines for press releases for anything 22