studyabroad.com Newsletter - Volume 20
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VISIT THE FORUM!
The New Study Abroad Forum has been operational for about 6 weeks now. We have set up the hours of Mon-Fri, 2PM to 4PM EST as the designated Chat Hours. Each day we have at least several students visit the chat room looking for advice. We would like to see more international education professionals visiting the site during these hours to assist students who have logged in looking for help.
We also would like for you to encourage study abroad alumni to log in for the chat sessions. These returning students are a great resource for prospective study abroad students. Returning students will enjoy the opportunity to share their experiences with prospective students.
From time to time we are holding special events in the chat room. These events are publicized to users who sign up for our "chat announce list" (now more than 300 users). Special events will center around a topic of interest for study abroad students. For instance there will be a session on Thursday, March 12 at 2PM EST on Financing Study Abroad. Special Guests for this session will be Liz Kopp of SUNY Cortland and Joe Cronin of International Education Finance Corporation. Feel free to join us for this session.
We welcome suggestions for Special Event topics. If you are interested in hosting a session, please let us know by sending a note to mlandon@studyabroad.com. Special Event topics should be of general interest to prospective students.
USE THE FORUM!
The Study Abroad Chat Rooms goes largely unused except during the Mon-Fri 2-4PM time block. We welcome study abroad administrators to utilize the chat rooms. You can use this area to have a real time discussion with your colleagues or students overseas or to stage your own Special Event. Sessions can be public or private. There are endless possibilities!
Some Ideas:
- Hold an online study abroad fair
- Do one-on-one "interviews"
- Have a virtual meeting with your staff
- Hold a town meeting with your students who are currently abroad
We offer the use of the Study Abroad Chat Rooms free of charge. This is our gift to the study abroad community. Feel free to contact us about setting up your event.
LOOKING AHEAD TO MAY
For the third consecutive year, we will be on the floor at the NAFSA Annual Conference. Mark Landon and Mark Shay will be available to discuss Studyabroad.com, Gradschools.com and whatever else is on your mind. We'll give more details in this newsletter as the time gets nearer. We look forward to seeing our old and new friends!
OUR EXPANDING WORLD
We have come a long way since Studyabroad.com debuted back in September 1995. We've evolved from "a couple of guys with a Mac" to:
- A couple of guys (Mark Landon and Mark Shay)
- Two additional full time staff members
- Two part-time staff members
- 12 Macintosh computers (including 4 servers)
- 1 PC (our chat server)
- Secure server capabilities
- A full T-1 circuit
- Hundreds of Advertisers (250 for Studyabroad.com)
- About 80,000 users giving us more than 1,000,000 "hits" per month (total files served from Studyabroad.com and Gradschools.com)
NEW ADVERTISERS
Thank you again to all of our new, renewing and current advertisers! Here are our new advertisers since the last newsletter:
ABC Centro di Lingua a Cultura Italiana
Abroad Languages
Canada Education Centre
Cultural Experiences Abroad
European Language Studies
Homestay Worldwide
Imsol Instituto Mediterranio Sol
Lacunza Escuela Internacional
Natural Learning
New Itineraries
Santander Euro-Centre
University of Victoria - English Language Centre
University of Wollongong
TRAFFIC REPORT
Here are the latest usage statistics, for the month of February. We are very pleased to report continued growth in our traffic.
Traffic in Total Pages Served:
February 1998: 337,958 (unique hosts: 53,783)
February 1997: 204,217 (unique hosts: 37,822)
January 1998: 347,805 (unique hosts: 53,325)
January 1997: 200,764 (unique hosts: 38,020)
December 1997: 203,200 (unique hosts: 31,424)
December 1996: 115,556 (unique hosts: 23,365
November 1997: 257,979 (unique hosts: 40,356
November 1996: 192,587 (unique hosts: 37,213)
October 1997: 343,837 (unique hosts: 54,096)
October 1996: 157,726 (unique hosts: 29,774)
September 1997: 238,779 (unique hosts: 41,789)
September 1996: 149,185
August 1997: 185,182 (unique hosts: 37,430)
August 1996: 95,543
July 1997: 137,117 (unique hosts: 28,099)
July, 1996: 68,427
June 1997: 145,747 (unique hosts: 28,648)
June 1996 (estimated): 63,434
May 1997: 187718 (unique hosts: 39,108)
May 1996: 77,481
April 1997: 183,284 (unique hosts: 37,240)
April 1996: 84,891
March 1997: 173,087 (unique hosts: 35,924)
March 1996: 79,580
TOP TEN LIST
Here are the top 10 universities for February in terms of usage of our system. Following the university name is the total number of studyabroad.com pages viewed from computers in their system.
- University of Texas: 1872
- University of Virginia: 1656
- New York University: 1508
- University of Washington: 1455
- University of Minnesota: 1348
- Pennsylvania State University: 1292
- Havard University: 1145
- Texas A&M University: 1095
- Cornell University: 1076
- Northwestern University: 1055
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