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February 2013 Roundup (INALJ Stats )

What a great month it has been! I reached 880,000 page views the fourth week of February!

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Forty-eight fans reported to me that they found jobs!

In February I launched state, province and country pages and my site traffic more than doubled, sometimes it was 4x the old average!

Also in late February I launched monthly blog postings from the Head Editors and this gave me the two best days ever on INALJ.com.

 

Some fast stats for February 2013:

  • 881,465 total INALJ.com page views (all time) and 159,825 in February
  • over 12,101 Tweets milestone reached
  • 3,102 Twitter followers
  • 5,135 Facebook fans
  • 2,744 LinkedIn group members
  • 818 INALJ.com email subscribers
  • Our 800th fan found their job!
  • California was the most viewed state page with 7,577 views
  • Total jobs added for the month 5,795  (update on 3/7/13)

I love looking back and hope we continue to grow in leaps and bounds. February was stunning!  The blog posts made us go from a daily high in the 3,000s to a daily high of 9,503 on 2/26/13!!!   It is hard work finding job opportunities, applying for them and getting hired. I hope INALJ makes at least one aspect of your hunt easier so you can focus on applying and getting the job. Here is hoping March continues the trend. Here is hoping the community we have built can help you focus and grow and most importantly find work that can support you and work you can be passionate about.

 

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Naomi House

Naomi House, MLIS, is the founder and publisher of the popular webzine and jobs list INALJ.com (formerly I Need a Library Job) and former CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) of T160K.org, a crowdfunding platform focused on African patrimony, heritage and cultural projects. INALJ was founded in October 2010 with the assistance of her fellow Rutgers classmate, Elizabeth Leonard. Its social media presence has grown to include Facebook (retired in 2016), Twitter and a LinkedIn group, in addition to the interviews, articles and jobs found on INALJ. INALJ has had over 21 Million page hits and helped many, many thousands of librarians find employment! Through grassroots marketing, word of mouth and a real focus on exploring unconventional resources for job leads, INALJ grew from a subscription base of 20 friends to a website with over 500,000 visits in one month. Naomi believes that well-sourced quantity is quality in this narrow job market and INALJ reflects this with many new jobs published daily. She has also written for the 2011, 2012 and 2013 LexisNexis Government Info Pro and many other publications in the past decade. She presents whenever she can, including serving on three panels at the American Library Association's Annual Conference in Las Vegas; as breakout presenter at OCLC EMEA in Cape Town, South Africa; as a keynote speaker at the Virginia Library Association annual meeting; at the National Press Club in Washington DC; McGill University in Montreal, Canada; the University of the Emirates, Dubai, MLIS program and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Naomi was a Reference, Marketing and Acquisitions Librarian for a contractor at a federal library outside Washington, DC, and has been living and working in Budapest, Hungary and Western New York State. She spent years running her husband’s moving labor website, fixed and sold old houses and assisted her husband cooking delicious Pakistani food. She is preparing to re-enter the workforce and is job hunting. Her husband is now the co-editor of INALJ, a true support!  She has heard of spare time but hasn’t encountered it lately. She pronounces INALJ as eye-na-elle-jay. 

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