I’ve noticed that I’ve been tweeting a lot of links rather than blogging them as I used to. And from time to time there are some links that need to be blogged to get to those who miss the tweets or don’t follow.
Here’s one from the Web & Information Team at Lincolnshire County Council in [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Web metrics'
How much is your website worth?
August 14th, 2009 1 Comment
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Virtuous circle – from visitor to speaker
July 26th, 2009 2 Comments
This short post is for everyone who naively asks about the “ROI of social media” and whether “websites can be proven to result in museum visitation”.
Two years ago Bob Meade wasn’t a regular visitor to the Museum (despite being directly in one of our “target demographics”) let alone a user of our website.
Then we released [...]
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ROI Revolution’s Google Analytics Report Enhancer
March 5th, 2009 Comments Off
Anyone who attended my double web analytics workshops today at the Transforming Cultural and Scientific Communication conference in Melbourne today saw this lovely little Greasemonkey script in action.
And I thought I better link it for everyone who is not already using this to install.
What GARE does, amongst other things is go some way towards addressing [...]
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Attempts at quantifying social behaviour in the Commons
February 22nd, 2009 Comments Off
Over at the fantastic Indicommons blog there has been a flurry of activity around generating data from the various collections in the Commons on Flickr.
Patrick Peccatte initially posted on his blog a set of figures extracted using the Flickr API across the institutions in the Commons. Patrick has reworked these figures a little and they’ve [...]
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Library of Congress report on their participation in the Commons on Flickr
December 11th, 2008 2 Comments
Michelle Springer, Beth Dulabahn, Phil Michel, Barbara Natanson, David Reser, David Woodward, and Helena Zinkham over at the Library of Congress have (publicly) released a very in-depth report on their experiences in the Commons on Flickr over a 10 month period.
Titled “For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project” it explores the [...]
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Better web metrics for museums – a MW09 workshop, April 2009
December 7th, 2008 Comments Off
The Museums and the Web 2009 programme is now out and registration has started. This year the action takes place in Indianapolis and many of us faraway people are looking forward to checking out the IMA.
If you attended MW last year or the recent National Digital Forum in NZ, or maybe your organisation has had [...]
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Australian internet usage trends and statistics
August 11th, 2008 Comments Off
Knowing your audience is critical yet being outside of North America often means that we end up justifying projects, strategies, methodologies on general audience data drawn from another continent.
The CCI at QUT has just published the latest ‘Digital Futures Report – the Internet in Australia‘ which is a very comprehensive look at how Australian internet [...]
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Commons on Flickr – a report, some concepts and a FAQ – the first 3 months from the Powerhouse Museum
July 21st, 2008 9 Comments
The first three months of having images from the Tyrrell Photographic Collection in the Commons on Flickr have been very interesting. We launched on April 8 with 200 images and have been adding more each week since.
At the 12 week mark we had 600 photos uploaded, mostly location photography with just under 50% geocoded. [...]
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Google Trends does basic comparative metrics
June 22nd, 2008 Comments Off
Google Trends has started to allow domain level searches. This means that you can now pull up rough traffic figures, as calculated by Google, on any top level domain (subdomains like play.powerhousemuseum.com or artgallery.nsw.gov.au won’t work), and compare them to others. This moves Google Trends into territory covered by services like Compete, Quantcast (both US-centric) [...]
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OPAC2.0 – Examining Delta Goodrem’s dress again / more on search
June 14th, 2008 2 Comments
The most popular object in our online collection database is still a dress worn by Delta Goodrem.
I’ve previously written about how the popularity of this dress was driven in part by coverage on a number of Delta Goodrem fan forums. But this neglects the criticality of search. Google has always driven traffic to this object [...]
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