2007 on the NSGIC Blog

The NSGIC Blog received 5,401 visits during 2007, with 8,107 different "page views" according to data collected via Google Analytics. There were 75 different posts covering topics ranging from NSGIC meetings and business to the latest on-line map mash-ups.

The large majority of visitors came from within the United States, though there were a handful of visitors from Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Australia, Spain and a few other nations. There were visits from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, but the largest number of visits was from Pennsylvania, followed by Ohio, Delaware, Wisconsin, and California.

More than half of the page views were of the NSGIC Blog main page, suggesting that most visitors read the top few blog posts that were available at the time of their visit. Among individual blog posts that were viewed directly, some the most visited were:

• Former NSGIC Keynote Speaker Matt Miszewski to Step Down, a post about the resignation of the Wisconsin CIO who had been a keynote speaker at the 2006 NSGIC Annual Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas.
• How Remote is Your Sensed Data?, a post about geospatial analysis using "found" geodata.
• "Part of our Ecosystem", a post about recent discussions of the growth of Google and other data visualization tools.
• Transportation for the Nation, an overview of the NSGIC effort to craft a national transportation data approach.
  

The NSGIC Blog has been active since early in 2006. NSGIC leadership placed a focus on the blog starting in 2007 and various members of the NSGIC Communications Committee have started trying to add posts on a more regular basis.

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