-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: quinta-feira, 19 de Dezembro de 2002 09:18 To: All Subject: [IFIP] Anatomy of a website
Dear Friends,
Tomorrow, we will send our last circular mail for 2002 -- The Last Story for 2002. Before that, we thought you might enjoy a short story about the IFIP website and a warm-up with a "tropical joke".
When we presented our new web-site design in 2001 everyone was invited to "Plug in, capitalize on ideas and be inspired!" Since then hundreds of thousands of individuals plugged in.
This November alone we had over 26,000 [twenty six thousand] individual sessions at http://www.ifip.org. Where do the visitors come from?
The sessions originate in 105 countries!!! The share of the first 10 countries [measured by hits] is roughly as follows: 1. US -- 25 % [US commercial - 19.1, US educational - 5.6, and the rest is US government and military] 2. Austria -- 3.5% 3. UK -- 3.1% 4. Germany -- 2.6% 5. Australia -- 1.9% 6. France -- 1.6% 7. Italy -- 1.6% 6. Egypt -- 1.4% 9. Japan -- 1.4% 10. Canada 1.3%
What are people interested in? The busiest pages relate to IFIP events, publications, technical committees and member societies. The IFIP Newsroom is also quite popular [Just to give you an idea - "The Last Story for 2001" -- http://www.ifip.or.at/mail/msg00094.html -- [posted on 20 December 2001] generated 424 requests during November 02 alone and a further 570 requests this December, amazing given the fact that it was posted a year ago!!]. The pages of the IFIP Secretariat are regularly frequented both directly and as a gateway to such projects as the "Day of the President", "Visions from the IT Room" and other.
Who benefits? ->IT professional and practitioners worldwide [access to valuable information and possibility for establishing partnerships in their field of interest] ->The IFIP Community [more awareness of activities and projects] ->Member societies [updated information services, new ideas, higher visibility due to traffic toward their sites] ->TCs [greater exposure, new ideas and opportunities for projects] ->Event organizers [ central information repository and assistance, publicity, events and publications marketing] ->Editors and authors [recognition & higher visibility]
Next time someone asks "What's in IFIP for us?" you might wish to show the pointer to http://www.ifip.org
The Delivery Co. -- "Créateurs de Rêves & websites"
Fun zone "end-of-year-selection" joke lovers only!
Are you getting tired of the cold? Here is a story about tropical life to cheer you up ;-) ******************** Tropical Island Life ********************
On a group of beautiful deserted islands in the middle of nowhere, the following people are suddenly stranded by, as you might expect, a shipwreck:
2 Italian men and 1 Italian woman
2 French men and 1 French woman
2 German men and 1 German woman
2 Japanese men and 1 Japanese woman
2 Chinese men and 1 Chinese woman
2 American men and 1 American woman
2 Irish men and 1 Irish woman
2 English men and 1 English woman
One month later on these same absolutely stunning deserted islands in the middle of nowhere, the following things have occurred:
One Italian man killed the other Italian man for the Italian woman.
The two French men and the French woman are living happily together in a manage-a-trois.
The two German men have a strict weekly schedule of alternating visits with the German woman.
The two Japanese men have faxed Tokyo and are awaiting instructions.
The two Chinese men have set up a pharmacy, a liquor store, a restaurant and a laundry, and have got the woman pregnant in order to supply employees for their stores.
The two American men are contemplating the virtues of suicide because the American woman keeps endlessly complaining about her body; the true nature of feminism; how she can do everything they can do; the necessity of fulfillment; the equal division of household chores.
The two Irish men have divided the island into North and South and set up a distillery. They do not remember if sex is in the picture because it gets sort of foggy after the first few liters of coconut whisky. But they're satisfied because at least the English aren't having any fun.
The two English men are waiting for someone to introduce them to the English woman.
Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 http://www.ifip.org/