Plant Services - January 2008 - (Page 10) PLANTSERVICES.COM Top Web destinations of 2007 Users are on a constant search for information lus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. – e more things change, the more they stay the same, says the proverb, originally coined by French novelist Alphonse Karr. It’s terribly cliché nowadays, but, as I peruse our 2007 Web analytics for PlantServices.com, it floats through my head. It seems that the more we change ourselves, the more predictable your Web behavior becomes. Take a look at the site’s top five most visited URLs for 2007. You may not be surprised, but you will find five links that are extremely useful. P 1. The Home Page It probably doesn’t shock anyone that the most surprising that visited page on our Web site is our home page. 5. Best Practices Energy Wiki our average It serves as our table of contents and your ine Energy wiki (www.PlantServices.com/ dex to a wealth of knowledge. While the main visitor is on the wikis/best_practices_energy) wasn’t introportion of the page is dedicated to a cycling duced until July, but still registered as one of site for more list of features, news, products and white pathe top five most popular destinations on our than six minutes. Web site. It aggregates best practices for enpers, it’s the top and left navigation that provides the most value. It’s the gateway to the ergy management, with primary sections covinformation you are seeking, it’s always up and running, and ering energy efficiency, energy concerns and industrial enit’s easy to remember: www.PlantServices.com. ergy sources. But, the direction of a wiki is entirely in your hands – wiki technology allows you, as the user, to change, edit and move content on the page. As a knowledge-sharing 2. Search Results Page portal for our community, it’s as good as the participation, Your peers like to search. It’s affectionately called, “ e and it allows you to share and learn from your colleagues. Google Effect.” We are now trained to use search if we don’t e common thread among these five popular items is that immediately see what we are looking for, and the reason they’re excellent Web starting points. From each of them, we think that is because Google’s search algorithms have you can tumble down a family tree of links that narrow and served us well. PlantServices.com’s internal search has reexpand, as you choose, to give you exactly the information cently been reengineered, and gives you the ability to sort you are seeking. It’s not surprising that our average visitor by date and relevance, as well as drill down by news, white is on the site for more than six minutes, and many of our papers, articles and products. returning users spend more than 15 minutes a session. To read more about what your peers are viewing, go to 3. CMMS Software Review www.PlantServices.com/thismonth to get the top 10 most If you’re looking to purchase a CMMS or learn more popular items in each of the above categories for 2007. about them, www.Plant Services.com/CMMS_Review Please continue to peruse our content in any manner you is the place to go. Fueled by the experience of CMMS exprefer, and feel free to comment on how we’re doing, either pert David Berger and guided by working IT professionto me at the address below, or as a response on our blog at als, the Review compares a variety of packages against a www.PlantServices.com/plantperformance/?p=17. comprehensive list of capabilities. You can use the tool to do research, or even plug in your requirements and generate a score that tells you which vendor is the best fit. E-mail Senior Web Editor Michael Ermitage at mermitage@putman.net 10 .PLANTSERVICES. J Every monthly issue of Plant Services magazine is online as a full digital edition. It presents everything you have in your hands in the paper version, plus links to associated material on the Web site. For example, if you’re reading this month’s “In the Trenches” on our digital edition, you are one click away from every “In the Trenches” we have published in the past three years. Each print article that makes a reference to another article, or to an external reference site, has a live link in the digital edition. Furthermore, you don’t have to go each month to www.PlantServices.com to get the digital edition – subscribe and we’ll send it to you. It’s not 4. Digital Edition http://www.PLANTSERVICES.com http://www.PlantServices.com http://www.PlantServices.com/wikis/best_practices_energy http://www.PlantServices.com/wikis/best_practices_energy http://www.PlantServices.com http://www.PlantServices.com http://www.PlantServices.com/thismonth http://Services.com/CMMS_Review http://www.PlantServices.com/plantperformance/?p=17 http://www.PLANTSERVICES.com
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