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At the start of the year, I decided to start preparing transparency reports. While I don’t make any money from the blog, I like the idea of sharing information about the blog that might be of interest to other bloggers.
- Total views (Jan-Apr 2017) – 61,233 (Average of 510 views/day)
- Total visitors (Jan-Apr 2017) – 41,117
- Total likes (Jan-Apr 2017) – 33
- Total comments (Jan-Apr 2017) – 39
- Total shares (Jan-Apr 2017) – 374
- Total WordPress followers (end of Apr 2017) – 370
- Total email followers – 294
- Total Twitter followers – 489
- Total Blog Facebook page followers – 250
My top ten posts for the first four months of the year were:
- What is the Strengths Perspective? (10,492 views)
- What is asset-based community-driven development (ABCD)? (4996 views)
- What is community capacity building? (3396 views)
- What are social models of health? (3150 views)
- Types of community engagement (3026 views)
- What is the Spectrum of Public Participation? (2889 views)
- Making parents feel welcome in schools (2757 views)
- 10 things I’ve learnt about strengths-based community engagement (1558 views)
- Ethics and community engagement (1535 views)
- 10 ways to reduce your consumption (1493 views)
April was a very busy month for me at work so I didn’t publish any new posts. The posts I’ve published so far this year (with the number of views they’ve received) are:
- 08-Jan-17 Transparency report (2016) (64 views)
- 11-Jan-17 Looking forward to 2017 (36 views)
- 12-Jan-17 Parent engagement – not just about schools (81 views)
- 13-Jan-17 Special days and dates for families and communities – 2017 (133 views)
- 14-Jan-17 Special days and dates for the environment – 2017 (518 views)
- 17-Jan-17 Five things that scare me about Trump as president (106 views)
- 19-Jan-17 Some hints re course coordination for new lecturers (33 views)
- 20-Jan-17 The rich get richer – the gap is widening (40 views)
- 23-Jan-17 Journals publishing on community engagement (98 views)
- 26-Jan-17 Survival day (48 views)
- 30-Jan-17 The increasing number of articles published on community engagement (57 views)
- 01-Feb-17 10 tasks of “good enough” parents (90 views)
- 07-Feb-17 Jasmine and Larni’s tiny house on national TV (97 views)
- 08-Feb-17 Jasmine on the Tiny House Project (from The Owner Builder magazine) (55 views)
- 14-Feb-17 What is the Spectrum of Public Participation? (2,942 views)
- 15-Feb-17 Definitions of community engagement – updated (68 views)
- 24-Feb-17 An Alternatives to Violence Project workshop for parents (93 views)
- 02-Mar-17 Searching for my authoritative voice (54 views)
- 03-Mar-17 Graphic depictions of the Spectrum of Public Participation (118 views)
- 03-Mar-17 Updates to the reading list on ABCD (103 views)
- 04-Mar-17 The story of microfibres (80 views)
- 09-Mar-17 A continuum of engagement: A focus on the individual to a focus on the collective (141 views)
- 15-Mar-17 Principles of effective parent engagement in early childhood education (60 views)
- 24-Mar-17 Donald Trump the musical (with Tim Minchin) (76 views)
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