Feedburner

This evening I spent a couple hours hooking up a blog to FeedBurner, a site that allows bloggers to track the reach of their blog. FeedBurner allows users to anonymously count visitors, subscribers, browsers, and when and where visitors accessed the site from.

Any blog or podcast can be set up to use FeedBurner. The advantage for Communications would be that we could closely track what content on gslounge.com is interesting to the readership. We could track how many people are reading forums but not actually posting (ex. lurkers: visitors who read but never write posts or replies) or even see how many students are checking the online calendar. Tracking readership is important in order to make sure the site is working for the audience.

Thanks,

Brody

ps. For those of you who love GMail as much as I do, check out this Firefox extension that makes GMail even more useful.