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Life After Midd & lynda.com video-based learning

March 7, 2013 by
Categories: Midd Blogosphere

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Students…  Interested in skills you can use in Life Beyond Midd?  lynda.com has everything you need!  Just click any of these course links, log on with your Middlebury username and password and you’re on your way.  Work through an entire course or view just the movie segments you need — it’s up to you.

This small sampler of business skills topics is just the beginning — lynda currently offers over 1600 course titles from which to choose.

Need a hand getting started?  Sign up for our lynda.com overview session at noon on March 15.

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February 2013 Web Stats

March 4, 2013 by
Categories: Midd Blogosphere

For trend comparison, the previous month’s statistics are included in parentheses.

Traffic

  1. www.middlebury.edu: 481,033 (520,072) visits from 260,386 (270,184) people
  2. sites.middlebury.edu: 66,202 (51,526) visits from 55,868 (44,242) people
  3. menus.middlebury.edu: 32,759 (33,886) visits from 19,047 (18,177) people
  4. mediawiki.middlebury.edu: 20,405 (20,887) visits from 19,517 (19,447) people
  5. courses.middlebury.edu: 18,946 (7,771) visits from 15,953 (6,340) people
  6. catalog.middlebury.edu 14,145 (7,295) visits from 12,695 (7,262) people
  7. web.middlebury.edu: 11,686 (11,891) visits from 10,987 (10,961) people
  8. eres.middlebury.edu: 11,348 (5,711) visits from 10,271 (4,021) people
  9. portal.middlebury.edu: 11,125 (9,710) visits from 9,389 (7,416) people
  10. biblio.middlebury.edu: 10,804 (10,524) visits from 9,744 (9,104) people

Top Pages

  1. www.middlebury.edu: 261,478 (286,339) pageviews
  2. www.middlebury.edu/athletics: 33,819 (32,931) pageviews
  3. menus.middlebury.edu: 33,206 (34,294) pageviews
  4. www.middlebury.edu/academics: 24,321 (26,928) pageviews
  5. courses.middlebury.edu/dashboard: 19,871 (5,664) pageviews
  6. www.middlebury.edu/admissions: 18,174 (22,339) pageviews
  7. courses.middlebury.edu: 17,336 (7,409) pageviews
  8. www.middlebury.edu/athletics/sports: 16,035 (15,779) pageviews
  9. web.middlebury.edu/database/directory/Default.aspx: 14,968 (14,762) pageviews
  10. www.middlebury.edu/academics/lib: 13,982 (13,035) pageviews

Search Terms

  1. Search Midd: 727 (894)
  2. academic calendar: 339 (411)
  3. mojo: 266 (338)
  4. moodle: 201 (127)
  5. course hub: 178 (88)
  6. menu: 155 (163)
  7. sites.middlebury.edu: 127 (94)
  8. winter carnival: 97 (48)
  9. schedule planner: 76 (27)
  10. banner web: 57 (128)

Browsers

  • Safari: 37.72% (37.85%)
  • Chrome: 22.43% (22.10%)
  • Internet Explorer: 18.47% (18.93%)
    • IE8: 9.68% (9.86%)
    • IE9: 6.04% (6.34%)
    • IE7: 2.26% (2.28%)
    • IE10: 0.41% (0.37%)
    • IE6: 0.08% (0.08%)
  • Firefox: 18.38% (18.42%)
  • Android Browser: 1.16% (1.23%)

Platforms

  • Macintosh: 44.62% (43.71%)
  • Windows: 40.71% (42.36%)
  • iOS: 11.51% (11.35%)
  • Android: 1.45% (1.50%)
  • Linux: 0.39% (0.37%)
  • BlackBerry: 0.11% (0.11%)
  • Windows Phone: 0.05% (0.05%)
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February 2013 Social Media Stats

March 4, 2013 by
Categories: Midd Blogosphere

The following stats refer to activity on the Middlebury College Facebook page, the Middlebury College Twitter account, and share buttons on the main Middlebury College website. For trend comparison, the previous month’s statistics are included in parentheses, where appropriate.

Facebook Insights

  • 229 (233) new people liked our Page, while 57 (52) people unliked our Page.
  • 2049 (801) unique people shared stories about our page. These stories include liking our Page, posting to our Page’s Wall, liking, commenting on or sharing one of our Page posts, answering a Question we posted, RSVPing to one of our events, mentioning our Page, phototagging our Page or checking in at our Place. [Daily People Talking About This]
  • 58721 (20737) unique people saw one of the items shared in that way. [Daily Viral Reach]
  • 104926 (48283) unique people saw content associated with our Page. [Daily Total Reach]

Top Five Facebook Posts

“Reach” is the number of people who saw the post. “Engagement” is the number of people who clicked on the post.

  1. Middlebury students are confronting a formerly taboo subject — how much each of them pays to be at Midd. Check out this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Reach: 8101, Engagement: 1489
  2. Middlebury is the most “winter wonderful” campus according to BuzzFeed. (Beautiful pic by Midd staffer Adam Franco!) Reach: 713, Engagement: 1069
  3. This amazing short film by new Feb graduate Bianca Giaever ’12.5 might be the best eight minutes you’ll spend today. (It’s quickly gone viral and you’ll see why when you watch it.) Reach:7356, Engagement: 999
  4. Do you have fond memories of J-term? Tell us what J-term course you’d want to teach if you came back to Midd. some day. Reach: 5997, Engagement: 377
  5. Check out the Feb Cam video, shot today at the annual ski-down celebration for February graduates. Special thanks to Feb Hanna Howell for wearing the camera up and down the mountain. Reach: 5077, Engagement: 290

ShareThis

ShareThis is a service that tracks the clicks on the sharing buttons on our website. These buttons are shown on news postings, which are primarily found in the News Room, Arts, Sustainability, and Athleticssections of the site.

Shares By Channel

  • Facebook: 72 (51) Shares, 3359 (3332) Clicks
  • Twitter: 31 (43) Shares, 579 (425) Clicks
  • Email: 28 (39) Shares, 248 (1050) Clicks
  • LinkedIn: 6 (13) Shares, 4 (6) Clicks

Top Five Shared Pages

  1. Men’s Basketball Loses Triple-Overtime Thriller To Amherst Shares: 13, Clicks 8
  2. Carolyn Kuebler to become editor of the New England Review Shares: 12, Clicks 691
  3. Men’s Basketball To Host Curry In NCAA Tournament Game – Ticket Info. Shares: 8, Clicks 71
  4. Soccer Drafts Crown Point’s Dmitri Duval From Team IMPACT Shares: 7, Clicks 343
  5. Women’s DMR Team Breaks National Record Shares: 7, Clicks 295

Data Sets

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WordPress Plugin Spotlight: Embed Google Docs in your Posts

February 28, 2013 by
Categories: Midd Blogosphere

This is an ongoing series of posts to highlight some of the features that we have installed in WordPress that you might like to use on your site, but might not know are available.

This plugin requires little in the way of explanation. If you have a document hosted on Google Docs or Google Drive and want to embed it in a blog post or page, enable the Google Docs Shortcode plugin in your site’s administration interface. This plugin supports embedding documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and forms. You can use some shortcode like this to add your documents:

[gdoc link="LINK_TO_GOOGLE_DOC" height="600"]

Documentation on getting the link for the shortcode is available at that link. As an example, here’s are presentation slides from a session I gave on our Drupal architecture:

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WordPress Plugin Spotlight: Embed Google Docs in your Posts

February 28, 2013 by
Categories: Midd Blogosphere

This is an ongoing series of posts to highlight some of the features that we have installed in WordPress that you might like to use on your site, but might not know are available.

This plugin requires little in the way of explanation. If you have a document hosted on Google Docs or Google Drive and want to embed it in a blog post or page, enable the Google Docs Shortcode plugin in your site’s administration interface. This plugin supports embedding documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and forms. You can use some shortcode like this to add your documents:

[gdoc link="LINK_TO_GOOGLE_DOC" height="600"]

Documentation on getting the link for the shortcode is available at that link. As an example, here’s are presentation slides from a session I gave on our Drupal architecture:

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FakeAV a leading threat in 2013

February 26, 2013 by
Categories: Midd Blogosphere

What is FakeAV: FakeAV is a virus designed to look like real anti-virus software in the hopes that the victim will click a link and download a malicious package. The malware often does not stop there. Many FakeAV packages continue the con by disabling true anti-virus packages claiming that they are harming the system they are intended to protect. These viruses come in many forms but are well crafted to present like a trusted virus prevention source.

Read more about FakeAV at: http://www.middlebury.edu/offices/technology/security/InfosecArticle. 

Learn more about security threats and awareness at http://go.middlebury.edu/infosec

 

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FakeAV a leading threat in 2013

February 26, 2013 by
Categories: Midd Blogosphere

What is FakeAV: FakeAV is a virus designed to look like real anti-virus software in the hopes that the victim will click a link and download a malicious package. The malware often does not stop there. Many FakeAV packages continue the con by disabling true anti-virus packages claiming that they are harming the system they are intended to protect. These viruses come in many forms but are well crafted to present like a trusted virus prevention source.

Read more about FakeAV at: http://www.middlebury.edu/offices/technology/security/InfosecArticle. 

Learn more about security threats and awareness at http://go.middlebury.edu/infosec

 

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