patt0
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9 years ago Being one of the most prolific members of the group, I think we can learn a lot from your use case. Your primary mechanism apart from conferences and meetups is your blog which has gets numerous new post every month.
Typically we would see a one to one blog to activity mapping using the tracker, with the metrics related to the activity being updated for about a year. In your case we are looking at topics.
The intent of the tracking app is to be able to quantify impact of GDE's both individually and in aggregate for a particular interval ( quarter, year, ytd, rolling 12 months, year on year ). In your case if we stuck to your categories we would see them disappear from the impact metric after the comparative period is over, which would not reflect the actual (new) impact that you had during the quarter.
When it comes to updating the activity meta_impact as it is now called, having but a few blog activities, I go to my metrics page and update these activities on a ad hoc basis. I have not taken the time to do it even after we pushed the new total_impact formula and I guess its a case that its not that important enough in the face of my other responsibilities.
This is why we want to get an architecture / platform / app that enables for automatic updates of these metrics, which being a very diverse group with many ways and platform through which we engage and impact with our community is going to prove a herculean task.
As i continue to think about it, I wonder wether a GAS spreadsheet that each GDE could copy and use towards downloading, updating manually with their metrics and then uploading back to the tracker would not be a more universal solution. Each GDE could then further script out / pull data from the various outlets they use into their personal spreadsheet ( with an opportunity to expand a linked GAS library with these scripts for the benefit of each ).
I realise that I have not even talked about "monthly" activity reporting for such things as Stack Overflow, Tweeting, Facebooking and what not ... and I have probably muddled the issue many fold.
As you will see in this document I am proposing to get some direction from Program Management on what impact means for 2015 before we decide how best to measure it.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SW8cZetMZBH2bZSOiqHMpLz_ieElHF3pGCvjsRxr-no/
Patrick Martinent
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 2:34 PM, bruce mcpherson notifications@github.com wrote:
I noticed that time based reporting is being done at a summary level, and I wondered how people were recording ongoing pageviews & +1's for existing activities. For example, I have a single entry for each topic on my site (which may consist of 20 or so individual pages), that has the date of when I first recorded it in the tracker.
Every now and then, I update each single topic's +1 & pageview counts (to date) from analytics to the new values. I don't create a new entry with, lets say, this month's views, since that doing that could overstate the number of activities (it's the same activity.. just additional impact information, and in some cases, additional blog posts in that topic). I don't really want to create a separate item for every blog post, (which is why I use the topic principle), and I certainly don't want to create a new entry each month - there are now about 700 pages with about 1m pageviews a year.
What is everyone else doing, and what should we be doing? Apologies if I missed guidance on this earlier. My expectation is that I'll automate this at some point but I'd like to understand the details before embarking on that.
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brucemcpherson
SmokyBob
I noticed that time based reporting is being done at a summary level, and I wondered how people were recording ongoing pageviews & +1's for existing activities. For example, I have a single entry for each topic on my site (which may consist of 20 or so individual pages), that has the date of when I first recorded it in the tracker.
Every now and then, I update each single topic's +1 & pageview counts (to date) from analytics to the new values. I don't create a new entry with, lets say, this month's views, since that doing that could overstate the number of activities (it's the same activity.. just additional impact information, and in some cases, additional blog posts in that topic). I don't really want to create a separate item for every blog post, (which is why I use the topic principle), and I certainly don't want to create a new entry each month - there are now about 700 pages with about 1m pageviews a year.
What is everyone else doing, and what should we be doing? Apologies if I missed guidance on this earlier. My expectation is that I'll automate this at some point but I'd like to understand the details before embarking on that.