ulken.com » Links http://ulken.com Eric Ulken's adventures in online journalism Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:19:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 How BusinessWeek measures user engagement http://ulken.com/2009/04/16/how-businessweek-measures-user-engagement/ http://ulken.com/2009/04/16/how-businessweek-measures-user-engagement/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:50:52 +0000 Eric Ulken http://ulken.com/?p=446 How do you get past those squishy pageview and unique visitor metrics and instead measure how users actually respond to the content you produce? My interview on this topic with BusinessWeek Online editor John Byrne (whom I met in Perugia at the International Journalism Festival a couple weeks ago) is now up on OJR. An excerpt:

Byrne: User engagement is how we nurture and build a community. Our reader engagement index is a comments-to-postings measure for a given month: So we will tally how many comments on X number of stories/blog posts that BusinessWeek.com published that month. This gives us a ratio figure that we track to determine our monthly reader engagement index and growth.

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  • BBC – Radio Labs – Archers – an everyday story of web development
    Making a show into a database: "We created a data model that represented what we thought was important in The Archers [a BBC Radio soap opera] – including scenes, characters, character relationships (such as marriages or parent-child), locations, storylines and tags." (via palewire)
    (tags: radio tagging database bbc socialmedia)
  • EveryBlock Los Angeles: Los Angeles local news and public records
    Holovaty and company expand their local data aggregator to include the city of Los Angeles (and some data for the rest of L.A. County): "…fresh updates of nearby fire alerts, restaurant inspections and media coverage and more."
    (tags: losangeles everyblock holovaty database local)
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  • Flight Tracking in 3D with fboweb.com and Google Earth; real time for LAX, BOS, ORD, ATL, JFK, MIA, SEA, SFO Inbound Flights
    Includes a KML snapshot of all active flights, updated hourly.
    (tags: visualization googleearth flight tracking)
  • Digg – Dialogg: Nancy Pelosi
    Digg teams up with CNN's iReport to let people ask questions of "notable people." First up: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
    (tags: digg socialmedia discussion election)
  • Cows have magnetic sense, Google Earth images indicate – Los Angeles Times
    Wow. The things we can learn with a god's-eye view of the world.
    (tags: googleearth science)
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  • mattwaite.com | New app: Neighborhood Watch
    Matt Waite on putting the "journalism" in "database journalism" — and the launch of his real estate project for the St. Pete Times. (via palewire)
    (tags: django gis mattwaite realestate)
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  • Chris Harrison's Visualization Projects
    Some interesting text visualizations from a Carnegie Mellon PhD student. My favorite, I think, is the Word Spectrum.
    (tags: visualization inspiration text)
  • Visualization Strategies: Text & Documents
    Tag clouds were just the beginning. Here's a nice list of some of the many different ways to look at trends in text.
    (tags: visualization text typography inspiration)
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  • Twentysomething Journalist
    Alas, I no longer fit this description, but that might not stop me from lurking here.
    (tags: toread journalism discussion)
  • DAYTUM
    "Daytum is a home for collecting and communicating your daily data." Brought to you by Nick Felton of the legendary Feltron Annual Report. Now you can create your own! (Note: Google Charts API used for graphs.)
    (tags: visualization data personal statistics graph)
  • Fleshmap: Studies of Desire
    "Fleshmap is an inquiry into human desire, its collective shape and individual expressions. In a series of studies, we explore the relationship between the body and its visual and verbal representation."
    (tags: visualization data body sex flash)
  • Stephen Baker – The Numerati
    "We are going to target you with behavorial ads–and blog about it" — an interesting experiment
    (tags: toread advertising targeting)
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  • Wanderlust: GOOD traces the most famous trips in history
    A nice Flash interactive showing the routes of famous journeys such as Magellan's circumnavigation and and the old silk road.
    (tags: map inspiration travel interactive history)
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  • Official Google Blog: What comes next in this series? 13, 33, 53, 61, 37, 28…
    Google counts words on the homepage. Talk about attention to detail.
    (tags: google usability design)
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