1. Interactions.org, Quantum Diaries and Social Media Kevin Munday/Kelen Tuttle 3 April 2014

2. State of Interactions.org 2

3. 3 Current state of Interactions.org From Google analytics – October through March 86,000 visits 212,00 page views 36,000 unique visitors

4. 4 Where did overall traffic come from? Direct (54% – 35% new) Organic search (26% – 46% new) Referral (16% – 20% new) Social (4% – 6% new)

5. 5 Where are our visitors? 1000 or more visits from: United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Canada, Switzerland, Italy, India, China, Sweden, Australia, Russia, Turkey

6. 6 Where are our visitors? 1000 or more visits from: United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Canada, Switzerland, Italy, India, China, Sweden, Australia, Russia, Netherlands, Spain, South Korea, Czech Republic, Brazil, Philippines, Greece, Austria, Poland

7. 7 Top pages Home page (65K) Newest images (63K) Blog watch (17K) Image bank home (3K) Glossary (3K)

8. 8 Google keyword searches Interactions.org Particle Physics News Interactions blog Particle news besii

9. 9 Current state of NewsWire ~4,283 subscribers (up 31)  1831.com  427.edu  302.gov  561.ch  398.de  171.uk  77.jp  20 doe.gov  3 nytimes.com  2 bbc  1 sciencenews.org  7 nature.com  7 APS.org 20 distributed so far this year

10. The Week of Interactions Published every Monday as a digest of weekly postings 409 subscribers (+1) Highlights:  News  NewsWires  Images  Video  Quantum Diaries 10

11. State of Quantum Diaries 11

12. QD Stats From Google Analytics – October through March 207,000 visits 306,000 page views 145,000 unique visitors 12

13. QD Stats From Google Analytics – October through March Let’s draw Feynman diagrams (19K) But what are quarks made of? (9K) Does dark matter exist (7K) Higgs Boson natural disaster (7K) Standard Model—beautiful but flawed (7K) 13

14. State of Social Media 14

15. Twitter @ParticleNews  8,419 (+308) followers and counting @Quantum_Diaries  3,804 (+189) Twitter followers 15

16. Facebook 3,640 (+157) likes on Facebook 16

17. New model 14

18. Kelen as webmaster Primary, day-to-day management and editorial functions for Interactions.org and Quantum Diaries Manage web committee Manage planning and other resources 18

19. Near-term plans with deadlines Re-convene Web Committee for meeting by May 15 Present board with content editorial plan by May 15 Present board with draft survey by May 1  Survey May 15  Results early June Dark Matter hub by June 1 Tumblr implementation by June 15  From “greatest hits”  Stage 10-15 images/captions to start Present board with strategic plan/proposal by July 1 18

20. Key strategic decisions for plan Redesign? Redevelopment In-kind contributions Work with limited resources—where should time be spent? 18

21. Feedback? Web concepts: http://www.xenomedia.com/clients/interactions/ Comps_2013/ News@interactions.org for press releases News@interactions.org Webmaster@interactions.org for anything Webmaster@interactions.org 23