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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 14,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 3 fully loaded ships.

 

In 2010, there were 58 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 69 posts. There were 98 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 28mb. That's about 2 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was May 12th with 419 views. The most popular post that day was ICARDA calls for action to fight wheat disease epidemic.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were icarda.org, icarda.cgiar.org, mail.yahoo.com, globalrust.org, and intranet2.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for icarda vacancies, icarda jobs, wuletaw tadesse, presenting scientific data, and icarda ug99.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

ICARDA calls for action to fight wheat disease epidemic May 2010
14 comments

Vacancies at ICARDA headquarters in Aleppo October 2010

Vacancies for international positions at ICARDA March 2010
3 comments

Food security and climate change in dry areas: Abstracts (En) July 2010
2 comments and 1 Like on WordPress.com,

The lentil: botany, production and uses March 2010
6 comments

Website:

·         Conducted user research and wrote web strategy for website redesign

·         Face-lifted  old front page with new design and dynamic elements

·         Developed information architecture and first paper prototype

·         Identified content management system

·         Built second prototype of clickable wireframes http://beta.icarda.org

·         Set up project site http://icarda2.benale.net

·         Hosted Human Computer Interface designer as intern for two months

·         Launched online collaboration area: http://groups.icarda.org

·         Integrated CGIAR project finder http://ongoing-research.cgiar.org/

Social Media

·         Set up two blogs and integrated them with the website

·         Established ICADRA profile on social media platforms: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Slideshare, Youtube, BlipTV, Flickr, Delicious

·         Published 192 news stories on our two new blogs and sent out 25 tweets

·         Conducted two successful social media campaigns accompanying Climate Change and Food Security conference in Jordan, and in collaboration with Global Wheat Rust conference in St Petersburg

Information & Knowledge Management

·         Set up network of focal points in each department

·         Team leader attended IAALD conference on information management and established collaboration with FAO on content management system, and with ICT-KM on projects database

·         Submitted proposal to GTZ together with CAS-IP to finance internship, which will assist with knowledge audit and Open Access agenda

·         Submitted small grants proposal to BEAF together with GTZ to finance knowledge management  strategy workshop

·         Started work on publishing workflow

·         Team leader attended GTZ annual KM retreat

·         Redeveloped governance of intranet and website, separating responsibilities for content and IT

Capacity Building

·         Webmaster back-stopper attained expert certificate in web design

·         Webmaster back-stopper currently attending advanced web design course

·         Identified trainer for web-team, currently  awaiting sign-off for budget

·         Team leader attended trainings in leadership, teambuilding and knowledge management

·         Trained maintainers to use online collaboration space

Outlook for 1^st quarter 2011

·         Conduct knowledge audit

·         Open Access Policy workshop in collaboration with CAS-IP

·          KM strategy workshop in collaboration with GTZ

·         Pending sign-off: train web team in new content management system and implement web design

1. Copy default.setting.php in the same folder and rename to settings.php

2. Set permissions of default folder recursively to 777

3. Modify .htaccess by adding this line to the bottom:
php_value max_execution_time 60

4. create folders for non-core modules in sites:
sites/all/modules
sites/all/modules/contrib
sites/all/modules/custom
sites/all/themes
sites/all/themes/contrib
sites/all/themes/custom

5. unzip WYSIWYG module to sites/all/modules/contrib

6. follow instructions to add CKE editor

 

Here's a video tutorial using FCKEditor