Quality of the content, integration with social nets and focus on Latin America makes MundoGEO a gathering point of the geospatial community
MundoGEO, leader in the organization of events and publication of magazines and web portal for the geospatial industry in Latin America,has reached an all-time record visits to the web site, with 7,902 people in October 16, 2012, a positive response to the team effort in producing quality content and investing in social networks. The previous record was approximately 7,500 daily visits on May 2009.
Launched in 2001, the web portal is a space for the geospatial community, with sections for daily news, companies guide, event and courses calendar, online magazines, vacancy archive and discussion forum, all in Portuguese, Spanish and English. The web portal has undergone some changes and, in late 2010, was reformatted using WordPress, the most popular and efficient platform in the world for the creation and maintenance of web portals.
“We are delighted with the recent visitation record at MundoGEO Web Portal, which shows the growing interest in the field of geospatial technologies”, celebrates Eduardo Freitas, editor of the portal. “In addition to the growth in Brazil, MundoGEO gets increasingly more visits from other Latin American countries, placing the portal as a leader in media and communications for the geospatial sector in the region”, he concludes.
The search for information about events that MundoGEO performs, whether in person or online, also increased the frequency of visitors to the web portal. Only this year, more than 50 webinars have been organized, with an average of 650 attendees per session, plus the MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica event, which attracted more than 3,350 people in June, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Some numbers of MundoGEO Web Portal
• Over 23,000 posts
• An average of 140,000 hits per month
• Daily newsletter in Portuguese, Spanish and English
• Most visited section: Vacancy Archive
• More than 100 companies in the Companies Guide
• Over 100 editions of the magazines: MundoGEO, InfoGEO, InfoGNSS and Special Issues
• Files (pdf and video) of over 100 webinars held since 2009
• 100,000 registered professionals (70% in Brazil and 30% from other Latin American countries)
• 5,850 likes on the page and 2,120 Facebook group members, 7,770 followers on Twitter, 2,330 members of the group on LinkedIn, 4,260 members of the GeoConnectPeople social network and over 10,000 participants in the MundoGEO Discussion Forum.
“With the increasing qualification of the editorial content, more webinars, online magazines, social networking integration and growth of the interest in Latin America, the trend is increasing accesses to the MundoGEO Web Portal”, adds Eduardo.
Until early 2013, MundoGEO Web Portal will undergo a restructuring, with a new homepage and newsletter layout, with more space for interaction and feedback from users via Facebook, new calendar for the courses and events section, among other highlights.