The Spring semester has started at our host university, the University of Szeged on this Monday. I'm teaching three courses (Metallurgy, Silicate technology and Process plant safety) now and advertised our group, this homepage and our Facebook page to the students in the first lectures. Of course it is not compulsory to join, like or even read the stuff posted here. However, I sincerely believe that reading my science newsbits and gaining some insight into the work of our group will be beneficial to some of the readers. So this post is mainly to say Welcome! to all of my new readers and thank them for their interest.
Now I'd like to share with you a very interesting experience about how information really moves. As you may now, Facebook provides basic access statistics about our page there and simultaneously, the visibility of this site (http://www.porousnanocomposites.com) is evaluated anonymously by the Google Analytics service. Let us now check the statistics for this first semester week that started on the 4th February, 2013!
Facebook group page access data first:
Facebook group page access data first:
Traditional homepage access data from Google second:
It is clear that the Facebook page visibility got an instant boost from the students checking it out and liking it, whereas the number of visits to the group's "real" homepage decreased simultaneously. This is big time news and a real surprise to me. I was expecting the group homepage to win (because not everyone is on Facebook but everyone has access to the Internet) or at least to tie, not to loose so pathetically :) The message for me is clear: if I want to access young people, I should put even more effort into Facebook presence :)
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