Studyabroad.com owners Mark Landon and Mark Shay will be on the exhibit floor at the NAFSA conference in Washington DC from May 26 through May 29. This is the third consecutive year that we will be exhibiting at the conference.
This is one of our favorite times of year as we have the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with clients, colleagues and friends.
Please stop by and see us at Booth #1416. Here is some of what we have in store.
**ADVISORS: SIGN UP FOR A FREE STUDYABROAD.COM ADVISORS KIT These packages will once again be mailed out in early August and will include the latest version of the Studyabroad.com User Guides, holders and posters. Advisors can drop off a card to be sure to be on our 1998 mailing list.
**CONFERENCE SPECIAL FOR NEW ADVERTISERS. First-time Studyabroad.com advertisers who visit us and sign up for service at the conference will be eligible for one free Hot Button with the purchase of a Standard or Simple Listing for one year. Stop by for full details of this offer.
**CONFERENCE SPECIAL FOR EXISTING ADVERTISERS Existing advertisers who visit us at the conference and sign up for select service upgrades will be eligible for discounts of up to 50% on the upgrades. Stop by for full details on this offer.
**ENTER TO WIN ONE OF 5 STUDYABROAD.COM GOLF SHIRTS These attractive 100% cotton golf shirts are always popular. Drop off your card for an opportunity to take one home.
**LET US TATTOO YOU! Stop by for your free Studyabroad.com temporary tattoo. We'll tattoo you on the spot, or give you one to take home for later. Ask for our special "Washington DC 1998" commemorative tattoo.
**SURF THE WEB IN STYLE We'll have computers set up at our booth with a speedy ISDN connection to the Internet which will allow for quick, easy access to the web. You can check out Studyabroad.com, Gradschools.com, the NAFSA site, or whatever else you might be interested in.
**UPDATE YOUR LISTINGS If you are responsible for a studyabroad.com program, take a few minutes to stop by and update your free listings.
**STOP BY TO SAY HI Most of all, we just want to have a chance to chat with you. Please stop by to discuss our planned upgrades, promotion strategies, Gradschools.com, or whatever is on your mind.
WHO: Mark Landon and Mark SHAY
WHEN: May 26 through May 29
WHAT: Specials, Giveaways, Internet Connectivity, Discussion
WHERE: Exhibit Floor Booth #1416
WHY: Because we like you :-)
We are pleased to announce that we will be unveiling some major system enhancements in the late Spring or Early Summer of this year. Enhancements will include the following:
* Live Database Search by Subject Option
* Expanded List of Subject Classifications
* Separate Directories for Inter-session Programs
* Improved Organization of Experiential Programs
* Listings of High School Programs
We expect that these upgrades will greatly enhance students' experiences with our site. All of these improvements come as the direct result of requests by students and educators.
Look for full details and a specific delivery date for these new features in our next newsletter.
Recent versions of Netscape and Microsoft web browsers allow you to take shortcuts when typing the URL of a web site into the location field. You can skip the "http://" part and the browser will fill this in for you. What's more, for commercial web sites, you can leave off both the "www." and the ".com" as well. These are assumed by the software. So as a result, all three of these strings will get you to the Studyabroad.com Home Page:
"http://www.studyabroad.com"
"www.studyabroad.com"
"studyabroad"
This month we have quite a lengthy list of new advertisers. Thanks to all of our new and renewing advertisers who make this service possible! Here are our latest additions, since the last newsletter:
Aalborg University
ABC ELBA Italian Language School
Accord
American Universities International Programs (AUIP)
Argentum
Augustana College
Belize Caracol Regional Archaeological Field School
Center for International Education Meridian-37
Escuela Latina de Lenguas
European Studies Association
Good Hope Studies
Haut-Lac International Centre
HSF-Heidelberger Sprachinstitut
Instituto Hernan Cortez
International Center for Sustainable Human Development - CIDA
Lisa! Reisen
Necessary Teacher Training College
Quick Spanish Academy
Riviera English School
Round River Conservation Studies
Truman State University
Tufts University - European Center
University of Queensland
Here are the latest usage statistics, for the month of April.
Traffic in Total Pages Served:
April 1998: 253,806 (unique hosts: 47,279)
April 1997: 183,284 (unique hosts: 37,240)
March 1998: 281,251 (unique hosts: 49,649)
March 1997: 173,087 (unique hosts: 35,924)
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
Here are the top 10 universities for April 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.
1. Stanford University: 1552
2. University of Pittsburgh: 1206
3. University of California Berkeley: 1167
4. University of Washington: 1143
5. University of Texas: 1134
6. University of Minnesota: 1071
7. Harvard University: 1014
8. University of Pennsylvania: 948v
9. Yale University: 920
10. Pennsylvania State University: 895
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