Reflections and Questions

Sunday is the 5th anniversary of Information Dissemination.We intend to throw a party in celebration all month long in June, but I'll discuss that more tomorrow. I believe June is going to be an month here at Information Dissemination. It is my hope that the smartest thing you read every day will be on the pages of this site, and this site intends to be very competitive every day on that point.

But before we look ahead, we want to look back and reflect a bit for purposes of learning how to make the future better.

Statistics


I ran some metrics Friday night at midnight looking back the last 365 days (yes I am aware it's leap year, but today would be 366 and isn't counted). Consider the following.

This website had 3,274,780 visits the last 365 days
About half the visitors on weekends are outside the US.
About 24,000 individual devices are recorded as a visitor every week.
The site averages slightly over 10,000 visitors every weekday.
The estimated size of this 'regular' (repeat visits multiple days, every week) community is 14,000 people.
Slightly over 2% of this audience leaves a comment once a month.
Slightly over 2100 different people have sent an email directly "To:" me related to the blog over the last 5 years

We need your feedback. Below are several questions that will contribute to the future direction of this site. You can send in comments or email, and even if you want to only answer one question - every little bit helps.

Preferences

1) What do you like about Information Dissemination?

2) What do you dislike about Information Dissemination?

3) What would you like to see changed or done differently at Information Dissemination?

Behaviors

1) How often do you visit Information Dissemination?

2) Do you visit Information Dissemination on more than one device (PC, Phone, Laptop)?

3) How many days a week do you visit Information Dissemination?

4) Do you use any of the links on the right blog panel when you visit Information Dissemination?

Interests

1) What topics discussed do you enjoy the most at Information Dissemination?

2) What topics discussed do you enjoy the least at Information Dissemination?

3) What other websites do you visit regularly?

Hobbies


1) What kind of books do you read?

2) Do you play any game of the Harpoon series or Global Combat Blue 2?

3) Would you join communities made up of other Information Dissemination readers, like book clubs or open source wargaming communities?

Medium

1) Do you watch the videos post to Information Dissemination including YouTube, Bloggingheads, and others?

2) Would you like to see more video content, either created or disseminated, posted on Information Dissemination?

3) Would you subscribe and listen to a podcast focused on the content discussed on Information Dissemination?

4) Would you watch a live or recorded video focused on the content discussed on Information Dissemination?

5) Would you use an Information Dissemination phone or tablet application?

Social

1) Do you use Twitter or Facebook?

2) Do you follow any official Navy Twitter accounts or Facebook pages?

3) Do you follow any of the authors of Information Dissemination on Twitter or Facebook?


Miscellaneous

1) Please add any additional comments here.