<html>
Hello,<br>
<br>
I wanted to mention in connection with HitBox, that the MIT-supported
program, BrioQuery, can generate all kinds of web reports from the
DataWarehouse (and free?) I don't know how BrioQuery compares with
HitBox, but lots of folks here use it. The reports I've made,
without taking the BrioQuery training, just by clicking around, include
information on individual page hits on your web site, the institution and
URL from which the hit originated, access broken down by month,
etc. <br>
<br>
Sarah<br>
<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
<font face="Book Antiqua, Bookman">Sarah Merrow<br>
Academic Administrator<br>
Graduate Program in Science Writing<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rm. 14N-108<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
<hr>
Tel: 617-452-5036<br>
<hr>
<<a href="http://web.mit.edu/sciwrite/" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/sciwrite/</a>><br>
<br>
</font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2<br>
X-Sender: thomson@hesiod<br>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:24:16 -0500<br>
To: editors@mit.edu<br>
From: Elizabeth Thomson <thomson@MIT.EDU><br>
Subject: [Editors] MIT Editors' Club Minutes, 1/22/04<br>
X-BeenThere: editors@mit.edu<br>
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1<br>
List-Id: A list to facilitate communication among editors on the MIT
campus.<br>
<editors.mit.edu><br>
List-Help:
<<a href="mailto:editors-request@mit.edu%3Fsubject=help" eudora="autourl">mailto:editors-request@mit.edu?subject=help</a>><br>
List-Post:
<<a href="mailto:editors@mit.edu" eudora="autourl">mailto:editors@mit.edu</a>><br>
List-Subscribe:
<http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/editors>,<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><<a href="mailto:editors-request@mit.edu%3Fsubject=subscribe" eudora="autourl">mailto:editors-request@mit.edu?subject=subscribe</a>><br>
List-Archive:
<<a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/editors" eudora="autourl">http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/editors</a>><br>
List-Unsubscribe:
<http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/editors>,<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><<a href="mailto:editors-request@mit.edu%3Fsubject=unsubscribe" eudora="autourl">mailto:editors-request@mit.edu?subject=unsubscribe</a>><br>
Sender: editors-bounces@MIT.EDU<br>
X-Spam-Score: -4.8<br>
X-Spam-Flag: NO<br>
X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com /
mimedefang)<br>
<br>
MIT EDITORS' CLUB<br>
*Meeting Notes from January 22, 2004*<br>
<br>
Arthur Jones, director of the News Office, summarized this meeting (and
this club, for that matter) as follows: "This is just like an
electronic Heloise, with all these little tips and hints!"<br>
<br>
*Tips and Hints*<br>
<br>
--Looking for a great way to track traffic to your web site? Try Hitbox,
said Jack Curtis of the alumni association. "It'll generate all
kinds of traffic reports for you." (I found Hitbox quickly with a
web search for the name, but the URL was about 300 lines long, so
I'll let you search for it yourself rather than muck up these
minutes....)<br>
<br>
--If you come to a web site with teeny tiny print that you simply can't
read, you can increase the size of the print automatically by holding
down the "apple" key on the keyboard while hitting the
"+" sign. I use a Mac, and it worked brilliantly! And (I'm
rather proud of myself to say), I even figured out that if you hold down
the "apple" key while hitting the "-" sign, the print
size will get smaller. (Many thanks to Janet<font face="Times, Times">
Wasserstein</font> of Foundation Relations!)<br>
<br>
--A good way to increase the "hits" to your site is to have it
spotlighted on the main page. Jack noted that he gets some 10,000 hits
whenever his newsletter, OpenDoor, is spotlighted, compared to
1,700 for a story that's not been spotlighted.<br>
<br>
*Next Meeting*<br>
<br>
The next meeting of MIT Editors' Club is Monday, February 23, from 12-1
in the News Office.<br>
<br>
Elizabeth<br>
<br>
<br>
<pre>--
</pre><font face="Courier New, Courier"></font>===================================<br>
Elizabeth A. Thomson<br>
Assistant Director, Science & Engineering News<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
News Office, Room 11-400<br>
77 Massachusetts Ave.<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307<br>
617-258-5402 (ph); 617-258-8762 (fax)<br>
<thomson@mit.edu><br>
<br>
<<a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www</a>><br>
===================================<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Editors mailing list<br>
Editors@mit.edu<br>
<a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/editors" eudora="autourl">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/editors</a></blockquote></html>