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Interactions.org, Quantum Diaries and Social Media
Kevin Munday/Kelen Tuttle
3 April 2014
State of Interactions.org
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Current state of Interactions.org
From Google analytics – October through March• 86,000 visits• 212,00 page views• 36,000 unique visitors
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Where did overall traffic come from?
• Direct (54% – 35% new)
• Organic search (26% – 46% new)
• Referral (16% – 20% new)
• Social (4% – 6% new)
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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
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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
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Top pages
• Home page (65K)• Newest images (63K)• Blog watch (17K)• Image bank home (3K)• Glossary (3K)
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Google keyword searches
• Interactions.org• Particle Physics News• Interactions blog• Particle news• besii
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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
The Week of Interactions
• Published every Monday as a digest of weekly postings
• 409 subscribers (+1)• Highlights:
News NewsWires Images Video Quantum Diaries
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State of Quantum Diaries
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QD StatsFrom Google Analytics – October through March
• 207,000 visits• 306,000 page views• 145,000 unique visitors
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QD StatsFrom 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)
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State of Social Media
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• @ParticleNews 8,419 (+308) followers and counting
• @Quantum_Diaries 3,804 (+189) Twitter followers
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• 3,640 (+157) likes on Facebook
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New model
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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
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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
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Key strategic decisions for plan • Redesign?
• Redevelopment
• In-kind contributions
• Work with limited resources—where should time be spent?
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Feedback?
Web concepts:
http://www.xenomedia.com/clients/interactions/Comps_2013/
• [email protected] for press releases
• [email protected] for anything
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