Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Readers World-Wide Read About The North Palouse


Why do people read The North Palouse Washington e-Newscast? Todate, over 27,000 page views from people world-wide have clicked on this paper!

The 900+ stories published todate have included:
  • 200+ Front Page (7,000+ page views)
  • 160+ Government (3,000+ page views)
  • 450+ Local Voices (7,700+ page views)
  • 110+ Ads & Specials (1,400 page views)
  • 15 Church News (300 page views)
  • 13 Letters To-The-Editor (550+ page views)
  • 13 Fun On The Palouse (270+ page views)
  • Towns (284 views)
  • Churches (187 views)
  • Organizations (105 views)
  • Businesses (79 views)
  • Schools (77 views)
  • Contacts & Submissions (93 views)
  • Terms of Use (204 views)
Interesting events attract most readers, and a significant number of people follow government news, such as town and city council agenda's and minutes. Whitman County and Spokane County Library activities also have numerous followers.

Area residents, churches, schools, and organizations send news and announcements. Leslee Miller, manager, Artisans at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown, Wash., accounts for 80-90% of advertisements of fun and educational events, which includes the cultural organization's superb website.

Librarians, Sheri Miller, Holly Myer, Laura Jones, Bev Bergstrom, Rose Anderson, Christine Bowman, Kelsey Gallegos, Shannon Roe, Michele Wright, Bev Pierce, and Diana Harp provide timely news from the branch libraries in their communities.

Ann Thompson, Palouse City Clerk, Cheryl Loeffler, Fairfield Town Clerk, and Darlene LaShaw, Rockford Town Clerk provide government news, and Vivian Plank, Manager, Banner Bank, Rockford, compiles a monthly calendar of events to share with readers.

Where are the people who read the North Palouse Washington e-Newscast?

The majority of people interested in what's happening in the Palouse region of Washington do not live here. Recent statistics show 95% are scattered across America; in Ashburn, Virginia, Montgomery, Alabama, Atlanta, Georgia, Jaspar, Tennessee, and in Lenexa, Kansas, Casa Grande, Arizona, and Holstein, Iowa.

In fact, the daily news joins readers from all across the nation, in places such as Halethorpe, Maryland, Orland, Florida, New Gransfeld, and Euless, Texas, Tualatin, and Portland, Oregon, San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Irvine, Mountain View, and Palo Alto, California, Layton, Utah, Stockton, Missouri, and Bozeman, Montana.

Boise, Post Falls, and Hayden, Idaho, as well as far-flung Washington residents,  in Gig Harbor, Bellevue, Bremerton, Everett, Vancouver, Rosalia, Renton, Colburn, Kirkland, Clarkston, Walla Walla, Tekoa, Fairfield, Rockford, Valleyford, Tacoma, and many readers in Spokane.

A half dozen or less followers of Palouse regional events live in Stoney Creek, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and London, United Kingdom.

Readers who are the farthest away include people in Moscow City, Russian Federation; Chandigarth, Gurgaon, and Panipat, Haryana, India; Rivne, Rivnens'ka Oblast' Ukraine; Islamabad, Pakistan; Cebu City, Angeles, Philippines; Warsaw, Mazowiecke, Poland; and Israel.

Are these readers interested enough to return again and again? Only about 18% return consistently. 7% read longer than an hour; 16% move on after five minutes; 4% read from five t 20 minutes.

Interesting events attract readers, and feature stories bring them back for more.

Anouncements and reports of events in your area of the Palouse are what people world-wide want to know ~~ keep sending your stories to me at newstnpw@air-pipe.com.

Mona Leeson Vanek, Editor