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Thursday, November 18, 2010
Views & subscribers shown on papers - what do you think?
We have just added a statistics box on each paper, indicating the number of views the paper has received since its creation and the number of users that have subscribed to it.
What do you think - good idea? Useful? Don't care? Hate it? ...
What do you think - good idea? Useful? Don't care? Hate it? ...
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Would like the option to turn it off if required otherwise neat idea
Very useful! Thank you! I wasn't sure anyone was even looking at my paper, but according to your numbers, lots of people are! Thank you!
Very good start, but would also like to see more in depth numbers about the paper. But this is great for now!
I like it. Thanks. Was wondering how many people were reading it, and if it was a value to my community. Looks like it is. About 80 people/day average.
I've a couple questions -
1) When I first signed up, 3 weeks ago, you had mentioned the possibility of revenue sharing for papers. What is the status of this? My University has 3500 students, and I am president of the alumni association. I can send a lot of traffic here, if there were a good reason to promote it.
2) can you give details of the viewers - geographic region would be very helpful.
3) Maybe this should not be on the top-right corner of the site. In normal - paper - newspapers, this is reserved for the lead article. Also, this is information that I'd call "Circulation" and every paper has it. So why not highlight it, and give it its own space on the top bar.
4) I would really like a way to promote certain articles, from specific people. How do you pick which are the 'top stories'? It seems pretty random. My community cares about a very small topic area. We want what we want to be the 'top story'. Is there a way to promote particular articles or people?
Thanks!
I really like this tool - one of the best I've seen in a long time. I plan on making several papers.
Take care. mjl
Also, I'm copy/pasting something that someone else wrote as a blog comment in October:
Derek Rogerson said...
One feature essential for publishing (esp. newspapers) is the circulation number.
How many readers does your paper have?
A nice "# readers today!" on the masthead or some other notice of circulation (daily, monthly or yearly) would be extremely helpful for promotion.
Unique readers only, no robots, no pageviews.
October 15, 2010 2:52 AM
Unique page visitors is the only useful stat for me (no bots). Private stats as the default setting.
You certainly don't need a large above-the-fold box for stats (think small, unnoticeable). Ditto for the archive feature. Focus on actual reading usability.
You hit it out of the park with your original version. Keep it simple.
Thank you.
It's very good information, thank you
Michael: Thx for taking the time to write down your thoughts & questions.
1) this is something quite high on our list - we are indeed looking into offering our users to take more ownership of their papers (details to be finalized) - beg for your patience...
2) probably tied to 1)
3) point taken - this is same point as Derek. Give us a bit of time to look at how things go - we are willing to change ...
4) top stories are not that random - we pick them by taking into account a dozen parameters. But we well realize that the finest curation can only be done right by the publisher, i.e. you. That's why we are looking into offering more control - again, thx for your patience.
Derek:
Point taken about importance given to stats (see above comment to Michael).
Stats are unique page views (à la Google) for any given paper, so no bots are taken into account.
Keep it simple - yes indeed! Something that drives our every move. Apologies if we don't always get it right...hence the feedback request to point us in the right direction.
Good idea and very useful but keep things simple, an icon (48x48)for bloggers to place on their blogs to link and promote their papers would also be useful.
Como generar ingresos con paper.li ?
How to generate revenue paper.li?
Very nice! I would like to know who my subscribers are ?
Also, there are some people that I want to keep on following with twitter but I don't necesarily want their article to be published in my paper, it would be great to be able to exclude or promote some specific people from the paper.
Thanks, I love paper.li
Virginie: Thx for sharing your feature request - something we will be considering. As to filtering out given people, this is in the works.
all seem okay, i think i need more follower on twitter :)
hundreds of view is great, i think.
2 thumbs up!
Thx for adding the feature.
@susanjones
me too, nice to know some in our focussed community are actually following. Would prefer it not to be in that position (as with other commentators)
wd love to be able to physically print it from time to time... pour encourager les autres in other settings (ie events and workshops we may run...)
ps... this really is a fab app!
- This is Good idea, I think!
I like it!
I love it! I'm subscribed to my own paper so that I'll be able to see things easily and I'm glad I did as I got an email saying it had been deleted. I had not deleted the paper, went back and easily created it. So, I suggest if you are not subscribed to your own paper....do so. Its just one email aday. Thanks for this amazing paper to showcase my followers links!!
@spreadingJOY
I like this new feature.
I really like the stats feature its a great tool to track who is actually reading and subscribing
I think it would be a very useful feature. Above and beyond wanting to set this up for my own business. I think this would be excellent for my larger clients.
It would be useful to also have the possibility of creating a link to one's main site!
The numbers are useful, but more so if it somehow also translates to site views, and there appears little way of altering the current settings (though perhaps I've missed something).
I think this is a very useful feature.
Great idea and very useful! Thank-you. Nice to see the level of interest in "our" paper. Would be helpful to see not only number but identity of who is subscribing so we could acknowledge and use the power of twitter to strengthen the social ties.
i'd like to know who had subscribed and edit the people who subscribe if i wanted to.
I second Mellow Dee's comment. Would like to know who subscribed.
I love the stats, and the app! I assume the number of readers is for all time, not daily, or monthly? Would it be possible to know how many hits the paper got each day? Or some kind of time frame to help break it down for us? Thanks.
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