{"id":3711,"date":"2016-01-01T11:56:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T19:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nnlm.gov\/evaluation\/blog\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2019-09-24T10:13:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:13:29","slug":"an-oerc-resolution-realized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/2016\/01\/01\/an-oerc-resolution-realized\/","title":{"rendered":"An OERC Resolution Realized"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Happy<\/a><\/p>\n

Happy New Year, readers.\u00a0 We decided to start 2016 on a high note with the OERC Blog\u2019s Annual Report.<\/p>\n

Wait, don\u2019t leave!\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

I promise, there’s something for everyone at the end of this post.\u00a0There are links to the most popular evaluation tools and resources from\u00a0our blog entries this year. \u00a0We judged popularity using our “clickthrough” statistics, showing the links that were most likely to be clicked by our readers to further\u00a0investigate the resources featured in our blog posts.<\/p>\n

(If you want, you can skip to the bottom now. We\u2019ll never know.)<\/p>\n

But first, we are going to take a moment to describe how far our blog has come since its inception in 2006.\u00a0 That\u2019s right, August 2016 is the 10-year anniversary of the OERC blog. I\u2019ve been a contributing blogger for almost a decade. Karen, the newcomer, started contributing in February 2015, the month she joined the OERC. Her entries are quite popular: Most of the top 10 clickthroughs below were presented in Karen\u2019s posts.<\/p>\n

For most of the blog\u2019s history, OERC staff posted 12-16 times per year (about 1 per month).\u00a0 However, in January 2014, the OERC staff committed to increasing our blog activity. That year, we managed a little better than three posts per month.\u00a0 This year, we finally met our goal of once-per-week posts. \u00a0We had 52 entries between January 1 and December 31, 2015.<\/p>\n

Of course, writing blog posts is one thing. Writing blog posts that people read is another. Our first indication that our blog was gaining readership was through the OERC\u2019s appreciative inquiry interviews conducted in late 2014. (See our blog post on October 31, 2014 <\/a>for a description of this project)\u00a0 Many of the interviewees mentioned the blog as one of their favorite OERC services.<\/p>\n

Now, we have quantitative evidence of a growing readership: our end-of-year site statistics. Our stats only go back to June 2014. Even with that limited timeline, you can see substantial growth. Our peak month in 2014 had 241 total views.\u00a0 In 2015, our peak month had more than double the traffic, with 508 views.\u00a0 In 2014, we had an average of 7 views per day.\u00a0 In 2015, our average was 12 views per day.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/a><\/p>\n

So thank you, readers.\u00a0 You are behind those numbers. In the coming year, we resolve to continue our weekly posts on a variety of evaluation topics.<\/p>\n

And now, as promised, here are the top 10 \u201cclickthrough\u201d URLS from last year.\u00a0 If you missed any of the trending evaluation resources from our blog, here\u2019s your chance to catch up.<\/p>\n