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Who Said Forums were Dead?

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As an aid to monitoring what content and images people are copying and pasting off of MyPE I installed a script from www.tynt.com. Tynt adds accreditation to any item copied off of MyPE – granted any technical savvy person can remove the accreditation link back to MyPE but Tynt is still a good average indicator of what is being shared.

One of the regular reports that I get is one that demonstrates where people are seeing, sharing and clicking on links back to MyPE. This weeks report shows a very interesting thing – the number of visits to MyPE coming from Forums is far higher than links from social media sites.

I can only conclude that forums have more authority than social media – in terms of the level of visitor intelligence and in terms of search engine optimisation.

MyPE Content Sharing
Visits (Red Columns) to MyPE from Forums, Email and Facebook –

What is interesting is that the least number of shares (Forums) resulted in the most visits – a double edge sword of immense value. The highest number of shares (Email) did not have the same effect, though.

Which brings us to an interesting point – social media is like bread and water, but authoritative web sites (such as forums, news, wikis and educational web sites) are like fine wine and crayfish!

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Alan Straton

Chief Cook, Bottle Washer and Broom Mechanic at MyPE
Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth. Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." See more articles by Alan.

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  1. Personally I think it’s because social media moves tremendously fast, so information quickly “disappears” quickly as a result. On sites like forums, news, wikis etc, the information is much more visible on a constant basis.

    • Good point. I would put it another way, though and say that social media is the shotgun approach – fire indiscriminately in the hope that you hit something …..