{"id":17697,"date":"2013-02-01T06:44:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T04:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/who-said-forums-were-dead\/"},"modified":"2013-02-01T06:44:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T04:44:31","slug":"who-said-forums-were-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/who-said-forums-were-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Said Forums were Dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><\/p>\n<p>As an aid to monitoring what content and images people are copying and pasting off of MyPE I installed a script from <a title=\"Tynt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tynt.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.tynt.com<\/a>. Tynt adds accreditation to any item copied off of MyPE \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2013 the number of visits to MyPE coming from Forums is far higher than links from social media sites.<\/p>\n<p>I can only conclude that <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.mype.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">forums<\/a> have more authority than social media \u2013 in terms of the level of visitor intelligence and in terms of search engine optimisation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/5cea9_MyPE_Content_Sharing.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20267\" alt=\"MyPE Content Sharing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/5cea9_MyPE_Content_Sharing.png\" width=\"540\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visits (Red Columns) to MyPE from Forums, Email and Facebook &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>What is interesting is that the least number of shares (Forums) resulted in the most visits \u2013 a double edge sword of immense value. The highest number of shares (Email) did not have the same effect, though.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to an interesting point \u2013 social media is like bread and water, but authoritative web sites (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.mype.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">forums<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.MyPE.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">news<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.MyPE.co.za\/wiki\/\" target=\"_blank\">wikis<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.MyPE.co.za\/wiki\/\" target=\"_blank\">educational<\/a> web sites) are like fine wine and crayfish!<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic -->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 granted any technical savvy person can remove the accreditation link back to MyPE but Tynt is still a good average indicator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-17697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}