Woopra Marches in China with the Londonderry Band
In June, the Londonderry School Band traveled to China and Woopra tracked them behind the scenes. As the group leaders submitted their blog posts to the Londonderry Hometown Online News sharing their adventures across China and playing for Chinese students and officials, Woopra helped those back home monitor the blog’s traffic and the crew jumped for joy when they spotted the first radar blip from China on the Live Map.
For those that are wondering where did we get this great “Command Center” software from to see what is going on at Londonderry Hometown Online News, it is a new product called Woopra. We are a beta site for them and I will tell you it is very amazing to see. We can tell who is on if they have commented or are an author. We can tell what people are looking at, how long they look at it. We can tell what people search on to find our site (over 60% of our traffic comes from search engines) we then write stories about what people are looking for. Someone searching for Blueberries would result in a story about Sunnycrest Farm. Visit http://www.woopra.com/ for more information or stop in sometime we will demo it for you!
The Londonderry Hometown Online News reports in frequently to the Woopra Forums with bug reports and feature requests, helping Woopra improve. They shared with us their experience monitoring the band’s travels and seeing international visitors on their site through Woopra:
Our installation of Woopra came just one day before our Local Band went on a pre-Olympic Trip to China. Our site is a news site, serving a micro market of just our town of 25,000 in Londonderry, New Hampshire.
What a blast to watch parents log on and view details of the trip as we published them. One of our Authors was on the trip and published every day. We caught them when they logged on once and captured the screen.
Since images and video were slow in coming at the start of the trip the screen image we posted created quite a buzz in the town. We did a small edit to simulate the “rings” since we posted a static image. We also added the China flag since this part of China did not recognize the location. (Chengde) When they were in Beijing the flag and location showed up fine.
Thanks Londonderry for sharing this wonderful Woopra experience with us. How exciting for everyone involved in this international youth experience program.
If you have been using Woopra in an interesting and innovative way, please let us know. We may publish it here on the Woopra Blog which is now seen by thousands through the Woopra desktop client on their computers.
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:33 am
Thank you Lorelle that was very kind of you to publish this! I will have to say I was suffering Woopra withdrawal when the servers were down for maintenance yesterday. It got me thinking, what can I do for them, after all they have done so much for me.
Then I thought, the great wall of China, the Olympics, and Woopra, this is a big deal, tell them!
Thanks for your product, when we can add more than one installation I expect to give up sleep watching all the fun! The site we donated to the kids is LancerMusicNotes. It will be the first to get a new Woopra tab on our “Command Center.”
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:30 pm
@ Steve Young:
This was a big deal, indeed, and a lovely way to share with others how Woopra is working for you. There are so many ways to use Woopra, we’re amazed at how many ways people come up with.
As a local “journalist” for the area, your stats are different from those who serve a large geographic area, but Woopra still helps you track how well you are serving your readers and creating a community with your loyal neighbors. Good work and thanks for letting us share your story. And congrats again to the kids. What an incredible experience.
August 24th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
The article that is linked here was a joy to write as I witnessed first hand what taking the politics out of the picture can accomplish in international relationships. The efforts by our Londonderry Lancers to provide the best show they could under very stressful conditions made me proud not only as a parent, but also as an American. It is my hope that the relationships they formed with the students they met and entertained will flourish so that in years to come we can both learn and grow because of it. The images provided because of Woopra were so very cool. You’ve a very neat product here and I look forward to the end of your test phase.
August 24th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
@ mws:
Thank you, and you deserve to be proud - all of the students should be proud as well. What an honor and a privilege, and how honored all of us at Woopra are to have been a tiny part of your great adventure.
The lessons they learned in China - during the whole trip - will be with them a life time. Between this eye opening and door opening ventures, and the Olympics, hopefully the “wall” will come down around China. I know it has for your kids.
August 25th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Woopra Team - ya’ll just rock! To take a wonderful educational experience for the kids and make it all that much better, even for the parents back at home - well, ya’ll just ROCK!!
August 28th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
very nice..really
September 4th, 2008 at 2:07 am
Just be glad the people in china could visit your site through chinas firewall.
October 25th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
My Woopra is better than your Woopra