The admin desk has been flushed with pride these last few weeks, as Isonomia celebrated its first birthday at the start of November by recording its best ever stats for visitor numbers and page views in a month.
Although the site was in development and began producing articles in August 2011, there was a three month period of gestation as we worked to sort out the design, layout and editorial approach of the site. So it wasn’t until November that we began in earnest, and we’ve been thrilled at how it has taken off since then.
In large part that’s down to our excellent authors – with great credit to Phillip Ward, who has produced more than a dozen pieces and is our consistent “most read” contributor. But Peter Jones OBE, Dominic Hogg and Joe Papineschi, who like Phillip have appeared in the Resource Hot 100 of the waste and recycling world, have shown themselves to be as creative as ever through their contributions to Isonomia. Meanwhile there have also been several lively and well-read contributions from Eunomia Research & Consulting staffers, like Adam Baddeley, Mike Brown, James Fulford, Peter Jones and Chris Sherrington.
While Eunomia staff have had plenty to say, one of the strengths of the blog has been the diversity of contributors. Local councillors like Bert Biscoe of Cornwall Council, public sector waste officials like Wayne Hubbard of LWARB and activists like Tristram Stuart have all pitched in.
Our record breaking October was kick-started by Adam Baddeley’s new piece on the pros and cons of exporting waste for use as fuel in continental Europe leading the way, becoming the article most read in a single month – though with some way to go to catch our all time leader, Reimagining greenhouse gases. But with two attention-grabbing pieces in play, it was Mike Brown who was for the second month running our most read author.
Isonomia articles are getting ever wider circulation, with some leading industry publications either reprinting or quoting from them. Last month saw our articles getting picked up by the ENDS report and Scrap-Ex SCM, as well as getting a mention on the UK Without Incineration website. In addition to the comments on the site, our articles prompted discussions on LinkedIn and E2B Pulse and elsewhere.
November is already well under way with great new articles from some of our established authors, but there’s more to come including a welcome return to the site from Chris Sherrington. With the weather becoming colder and wetter, he’s pondering the green virtues of burning biomass.
Thanks to all our e-mail and RSS subscribers for their continuing interest, and to our Twitter followers – we hope you keep enjoying our output. Do let us know if there are things that you’d like to see us cover on Isonomia.
We hope you may even be inspired to put finger to keyboard to join our corps of bloggers. Our aim is to provide an informed but accessible viewpoint on a wide range of environment issues, and your thoughts are very welcome. Whether it’s recycling or rainforests, climate change or Christmas – whatever’s on your mind, get in touch. We’d be glad to hear from you, be it from Malmo or Milton Keynes, Paris or Preston. We’re striving to create a space where thoughts on topics from across the environment sector can be expressed and explored, enabling communication and cross fertilisation of ideas – and we’d be delighted if you joined in.
Enjoy the site, tell us what you think, tell your friends and keep coming back for more.
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