The Five Most-Read Stories of the Month
As the only website featuring articles and videos exclusively about in-plants, InPlantGraphics.com gets its fair share of online visitors. We tracked the popularity of our content over the month of November and saw some surprising results.
Unlike in other months, the top five items in November represented an eclectic variety of topics and types of content. They include a blog, a video, a conference session recap, a manager profile and a month-old story about an inkjet installation. In case you missed any the first time they ran, here's the list:
- Your Lobby: The Place Where the “Fire” is Kept This blog by the popular president of the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association, Dwayne Magee (also manager of Messiah College Press) was the runaway favorite of November, drawing 20% more visitors than the No. 2 item. Dwayne's random, offbeat stories, infused with humor, always end up backing up the lesson he wants to impart, and this one, about his eccentric great uncle “Tricky Beam,” does that well.
- Schneider Electric Gets New In-plant Facility, Upgrades Digital Equipment In-plant expansion stories are always popular, true, but this one was a video, and videos rarely enjoy the popularity of the other types of content on our site. But in November, our busy in-plant audience obviously found time to watch this one, in which I interviewed the manager of Schneider Electric about his in-plant's recent move to a new facility outside of Nashville. Fans of this video will be interested to know that I am flying to Nashville Monday to tour this in-plant and see all its recent upgrades for myself.
- In-plant Leaders Reveal ‘Bold Moves’ At PRINT 17, three in-plant managers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, The World Bank Group and California State University, Sacramento, shared their recent expansion initiatives during a panel discussion moderated by Elisha Kasinskas, of Rochester Software Associates. Elisha wrote this recap of the discussion, and it obviously struck a chord with other managers, who are hopefully putting some of the ideas from this session into use.
- Sally Rowland-Ketley: A Born Leader Sally obviously has a lot of fans in the in-plant world, and her decision to retire in the coming months compelled many of them to read this profile of her printing career. Running the University of Houston's in-plant for nearly 20 years is nothing to sneeze at.
- Inkjet Lets Pekin Insurance Add Four-Color to Statements The installation of a Xerox Brenva HD cut-sheet inkjet press was big news and a great success story for this central Illinois in-plant. Though we originally featured it in our October issue, the article seems to have gotten a second life in November, pulling in an impressive number of readers interested in production inkjet technology. Also interesting: this was the second month in a row this article made the top five list.
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.
