1. Interactions.org, Quantum Diaries and Social Media Kevin Munday 19 November 2012

2. Our committee Till Mundzeck (DESY) Corinne Mosese (STFC) Kelen Tuttle (SLAC) Rika Takahashi (KEK) Kevin Munday (Xeno Media) 2

3. State of Interactions.org 3

4. 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. 5 Where does traffic come from? Direct 46K Search 30K Referral 29K  FNAL  Columbia  Google  Facebook  Twitter  Linearcollider.org  Quantum Diaries  US/LHC

6. 6 Google Keyword searches Interactions.org Interactions Wolf-Dieter Schlatter Particle physics news Particle News Dark Matter

7. 7 Current state of NewsWire ~4,144 subscribers (up 129) 90 distributed so far this year Direct pickup by Google News

8. 8 As we’re at it Babar NewsWire Reddit Post/Google News 2,798 views of press release

9. The Week of Interactions Published every Monday as a digest of weekly postings 414 subscribers Highlights:  News  NewsWires  Images  Video  Quantum Diaries 9

10. 10 News ~800 news items posted year-to-date, archived and added to RSS this year

11. State of Quantum Diaries 11

12. 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

13. State of Social Media 13

14. Twitter @ParticleNews  6,759 (+557) followers and counting @Quantum_Diaries  2,518 (+852) Twitter followers 14

15. Facebook 2,585 (+632) likes on Facebook 15

16. Enhancements since May 16

17. 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

18. Beacons of Discovery Adding German version this week 18

19. Physics for Cats From last meeting New site refers to Beacons 276 referrals 19

20. Content enhancements Focus on key audiences: Press, community and communicators Streamline navigation Clarify policies and instructions General content cleaning and editing 20

21. Content enhancement About Us section in French and Chinese Send more! 21

22. Feedback? Handy hotlines News@interactions.org for press releases News@interactions.org Webmaster@interactions.org for anything Webmaster@interactions.org 22