The KnoWorld community 29/6/09
Hey there!
Since we were announced as finalists in the Imagine Cup, many things have changed in KnoWorld. Now the project has a strong and growing community; we were able to impact several people, including schools; and we contacted much more people than we could ever imagine! This post aims to sum up the state of the KnoWorld community and its impacts as of now.
Note: the view counts come from our server stats, FeedBurner stats, Popfly stats and YouTube stats. The full server report is available here.
First, the team initiatives:
- Articles: We have written two articles about KnoWorld and how to use it, and we also posted our Round 1 Master Plan PPT. They were read almost 1400 times!
- Introduction to KnoWorld – 916 views
- Tutorial – 342 views
- Round 1 Master Plan PPT – 138 views
- Videos: The team has produced 6 videos about KnoWorld, with more than 800 views:
- An introductory tutorial – 360 views
- A series of 3 videos called “KnoWorld – Instant knowledge”
- Tweak a mashup in 30 seconds – 135 views
- Who has more cell phones – Brazil or South Africa? – 95 views
- How to build a map mashup – 31 views
- Two videos recorded in the classroom at a Brazilian high school
- Excerpts of the lesson and student testimonials – 68 views
- The teacher’s testimonial – 84 views
- A playlist contains all of these videos and will have all our future videos as well: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=61363421F6D9C196 – 54 views
- Mashups: The team has created 11 mashups just to show a small sample of the potential of KnoWorld. They had a total of more than 2350 views combined!
- MDG 6 – Tuberculosis in the world – 16 views
- Unemployment in Europe – 14 views
- MDG Infant mortality rate – 195 views
- Cell phones in developing countries – Brazil vs South Africa – 26 views
- Children out of School in India and Australia – for TaraEd – 53 views
- Destruction of Forests – 141 views
- HIV Evolution in Africa – 526 views
- Population of France – 432 views
- US CO2 Emissions vs Environmental Events – 433 views
- Top 10 arms importers in 2005 – 283 views
- MDG Children out of School – 257 views
- Blog posts: The KnoWorld blog has currently:
- 10 posts (including this)
- A total of more than 900 web views since its launch (excluding the 2 articles above). (See here how we got to this number, and the full server report for the detailed stats.)
- And amazingly more than 1000 views via RSS in the last 30 days ! (via Feedburner)
- Twitter: We’ve posted 10 tweets about KnoWorld in Twitter in each of our accounts: @robertos_br and @bfreis. This campaign has largely impacted our viral spread! (Check the next section for more details)
- Facebook: We’ve created a Facebook group with news and links, which has more than 100 members today. A significant part of our views came from Facebook.
- ProgrammableWeb: KnoWorld has been posted on ProgrammableWeb, where it was seen 71 times, had a rating of 5.0, was featured as “Popular Mashup” and even posted to Twitter!
And of course, a sample of the community responses:
- Mashups: KnoWorld’s spread can of course be seen by the growth of its usage. Many users have shared their KnoWorld mashups, some are really insightful! We highlight some of them here:
- Greatest sugar consumptions by brunods
- Sugar consumption – World by brunods
- BRIC – External Debt by Ezequiel
- Vaccines effect on Mortality rate in US by ahirata
- Oil consumption vs CO2 Emission in Brazil by BSonnino
- Air accidents – country 2009 by Carla
- japan population by jowe
- Nascimentos No Brasil by paulors
- Aids by r1cs1
- Articles and blog posts: KnoWorld has been featured in some blogs and even on a Microsoft Education website and newsletter!
- KnoWorld was featured in the June-July edition of the Microsoft Faculty connection newsletter, which is sent to hundreds of professors all over Brazil!
- Microsoft Faculty Connection Brazil
- Dielson Rocha
- IntelFusion
- MVP Bruno Sonnino
- Sylvia Guimarães
- Rafael Barbolo
- ProgrammableWeb blog
- DomainMacher
- Twitter: Twitter has been a great tool for our viral growth. Posts and videos about KnoWorld have been tweeted and retweeted several times, by many people all over the world. Some users who have posted or retweeted about KnoWorld once or more:
- @programmableweb
- @Imagine_Cup (the official Imagine Cup Twitter)
- @yuridc
- @barbolo
- @son1cm4yh3m
- @hugowt
- @botequilha
- @rickdog
So as you can see, KnoWorld is now more than 2 students and 1 mentor, some Popfly blocks and a handful of mashups: we’re a community. There are now students studying with KnoWorld, teachers using it, interested people learning from it, ideas being created, and awareness about the 8 MDGs being spread!
Thanks to everyone who’s been using KnoWorld and let’s keep it up!!!
Team Virtual Dreams
Bruno França dos Reis
Roberto Sonnino
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ensure you add this to your presentation at the world finals!
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