3According to a report from Compete, AllNurses.com has moved up one position on the list of top ten largest professional social networks from 2008 to 2009.
AllNurses sees 99% growth in one year
Year over year growth for the site increased by 99%, pushing AllNurses past professional relationship building platform Naymz, but still trailing business contact directory Jigsaw.
Though the site boasted 498,356 unique visitors in April, the section for Iowa nurses seems a bit sparse in the discussion area. The first page of discussions has several threads whose last reply was received in May or April, but many of those same threads were first posted a few years ago, leading me to believe that there isn’t a lot of Iowa nurse traffic moving through the site.
What social networking websites do you use?
Just because AllNurses made the top ten largest professional social networking websites list doesn’t mean it is the right site for you. There are several other nursing-focused websites as well as the big players like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
What sites are you using to connect with other nursing professionals?
Thanks for the blog post :) I was not even aware of this stat or accomplishment :) Our actual traffic numbers are far higher than compete.com reports, about double actually. allnurses.com is getting approx 1.3 million unique visitors each month, but the growth curve is actually pretty similar.
Our state forums are relatively new and lower traffic than the rest of our nursing specific forums. We invite any Iowa nurses to come and make our Iowa Nursing forum more active :)
Thanks again for the blog post :)
I only came across this article because I get regular updates from Compete. I happened to be reading through the list and then saw AllNurses pop up. The whole situation seemed very surreal since I had just registered an account on AllNurses and started looking at it.
As IHA continues looking to connect with the health professionals in Iowa, I’ll make sure that AllNurses stays on our list (and see what we can do about getting more nurses in there discussing topics).
FYI: I just posted a news post on allnurses.com with a link back here
http://allnurses.com/nursing-news/allnurses-com-ascends-398563.html
Thanks again!