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)

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State of Interactions.org

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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)

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Where does traffic come from?

• Direct 46K• Search 30K• Referral 29K

FNAL Columbia Google Facebook Twitter Linearcollider.org Quantum Diaries US/LHC

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Google Keyword searches

• Interactions.org• Interactions• Wolf-Dieter Schlatter• Particle physics news• Particle News• Dark Matter

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Current state of NewsWire

• ~4,144 subscribers (up 129)

• 90 distributed so far this year

• Direct pickup by Google News

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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

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News

• ~800 news items posted year-to-date, archived and added to RSS this year

State of Quantum Diaries

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QD StatsFrom Google

Analytics

• ~1,650 visitors/day

• 75-80,000 views/month

• 50,490 visits from 43,384 visitors on 4 July

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State of Social Media

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Twitter

• @ParticleNews 6,759 (+557)

followers and counting

• @Quantum_Diaries 2,518 (+852) Twitter

followers

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Facebook

• 2,585 (+632) likes on Facebook

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Enhancements since May

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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

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Beacons of Discovery

• Adding German version this week

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Physics for Cats

• From last meeting

• New site refers to Beacons

• 276 referrals

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Content enhancements

• Focus on key audiences: Press, community and communicators

• Streamline navigation

• Clarify policies and instructions

• General content cleaning and editing

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Content enhancement

• About Us section in French and Chinese

• Send more!

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Feedback?

Handy hotlines

• News@interactions.org for press releases

• Webmaster@interactions.org for anything

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