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www.icrard.org. The ICRARD web site. ICRARD meeting 2007 12 September Ole-Johan Faret, Petroleum Safety Authority Norway. ”Sharing information – connecting people”. Background.
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www.icrard.org The ICRARD web site ICRARD meeting 2007 12 September Ole-Johan Faret, Petroleum Safety Authority Norway ”Sharing information – connecting people”
Background • ICRARD: Our main goal is to coordinate research activities, exchange information and promote research cooperation between the member organizations. • The ICRARD web site: • Goal: Sharing information - connecting people • Content: Key information, contacts, links & unique search engine • Oct. 2004: Official launch of www.icrard.org • - The PSA (Petroleum Safety Authority Norway) coveredthe costs of developing the web site • - The PSA is funding its two first years in operation
www.icrard.org Unique HSE search engine Information on govt. authorities & contacts, HSE R&D projects and relevant links Relevant news (Anyone interested can subscribe to ICRARD news)
A success story? • Web traffic(source/tool: awstat) • 2006 • 500 unique visitors (average) • 1300 – 1500 visits per month • 5000 – 7000 pages per month • Example: • “Thesis on life extention …” an article about the report published in February 2006 on www.icrard.org – downloaded > 500 times • 2007VisitorsVisits • march 718 2186 • june 687 2930 • july 719 2817
Target groups • Government authorities in general? • ICRARD contacts • Audit officers / inspectors? • Research communities? • The industry? • … or all of them?
Marketing activities • Web articles • Links from external web sites • Leaflets, the “pop-up”, external presentations etc • Future marketing activities? How, where and when?) • Realistic to involve Brazil, Mexico, New Zealand and Australia?
Review www.icrard.org • R&D activities in each member country (sufficient?) • News production (ambitions vs. capability) • Search engine (easy to understand what’s uniqe?) • Background information (ICRARD - what and why?) • Discussion forum/Chat room • (A user-friendly or complex tool?) • Techno forum: Manuals • Marketing forum: Leaflets in pdf for downloading etc • R&D Projects forum: Information on co-operative projects?