The Oracle Mix Blog

Since yesterday was a holiday here at HQ, you get this week's metrics delivered today.

Registered Mix users (weekly growth)

55,973 (+0.5%)

Active users (percent of total)

Last 30 days: 2,760 (4.9%)
Last 60 days: 6,025 (10.8%)
Last 90 days: 9,833 (17.6%)

Traffic (30-day)

Visits: 5,747
Page views: 36,328

Twitter

Followers: 2,825
List mentions: 117

User-generated content (30-day)

New ideas: 29
New questions: 64
New comments: 98

Groups

There are currently 1,339 Mix groups (requires login).

Welcome back to our weekly "groups of the week" segment. You'll notice we've made a slight change and are now listing ten groups instead of five (but skipping the description). If any of these group titles strike you as interesting, just click through to Mix to find out more and to join.

• ORACLE PARTNERNETWORK (OPN) (346 members)
• DBA (1833 members)
• E-Business Suite (1843 members)
• EMEA HR - General Discussion (84 members)
• Data Room/Due Diligence/Country Mapping Discussion (83 members)
• Development Tools (1304 members)
• EMEA HR - Communications for Sun Integration (82 members)
• Oracle SOA Suite (1023 members)
• FY10 Financial Services Partner Summit (13 members)
• Oracle Certification (620 members)

To view the complete list, go here: Oracle Mix hot groups

In the process of migrating to the new My Oracle Support, a number of Mix members were asked to change their Oracle SSO usernames. The way Mix is set up, this means you can't log into Mix anymore.

If you're experiencing the same issue, please contact us and we'll make sure you get full access again. You can email us at oraclemix_ww at oracle dot com.

Happy New Year!

Registered Mix users (weekly growth)

55,694 (+0.6%)

Active users (percent of total)

Last 30 days: 2,656 (4.8%)
Last 60 days: 6,394 (11.5%)
Last 90 days: 10,013 (18.0%)

Traffic (30-day)

Visits: 5,472
Page views: 34,634

Twitter

Followers: 2,805
List mentions: 100

User-generated content (30-day)

New ideas: 27
New questions: 53
New comments: 89

Groups

There are currently 1,335 Mix groups (requires login).

Quite possibly our last metrics update for the year. Enjoy!

Registered Mix users (weekly growth)

54,985 (+0.4%)

Active users (percent of total)

Last 30 days: 3,467 (6.3%)
Last 60 days: 7,404 (13.5%)
Last 90 days: 11,926 (21.7%)

Traffic (30-day)

Visits: 7,227
Page views: 42,656

Twitter

Followers: 2,750
List mentions: 100

User-generated content (30-day)

New ideas: 13
New questions: 27
New comments: 90

Groups

There are currently 1,329 Mix groups (requires login).

You may remember, a few months ago we asked your feedback on Oracle's new video player: Testing the new Oracle video player

We got a lot of valuable comments (on Twitter and here on this blog), and this morning we learned that the player has been released into the wild. Here's how it looks (or follow this link to see an example of how it's being used for campaigns):

A big thank you to everyone who took the time to test the player and leave a comment. Your input contributed greatly to the actual deployment of this player. The Digital Media team will be monitoring this post for additional feedback.

One thing we'd like to look into in 2010 is the ability to easily share Oracle videos on Mix. Let us know if you'd find that useful.

As with any social network, one of the central building blocks to Oracle Mix is user profiles -- information members can reveal about themselves and share with others.

Mix launched about two years ago, and since then a lot has happened on the social web.

We're looking at making our profile better and would like to ask your help. If you could improve the profile that Mix currently allows users to create about themselves, what would you add, change or even remove?

Here's what we currently capture...

Basic Information

• First name
• Last name
• Title or role
• Organization
• Industry

Email and Phone

• Email
• Work phone
• Mobile
• Other

About Yourself

• About yourself (short text)
• Tags
• Products

What about privacy options? Look and feel? Usability? Leave a comment if you have feedback or ideas for improvement. Thanks!

Once again, here are your hot groups of the week:

• DBA -- Oracle Database Administration. For all Oracle DBA's, experienced or not, gigabyte or petabyte ;-) It's an open group, you don't need to be invited to join. (1,796 members)
• Oracle Certification -- This group is for all holding Oracle Certified Professional (OCP), Oracle Certified Expert (OCE), Oracle Certified Associate (OCA), and Oracle Certified Master (OCM) credentials, as well as those pursuing their certification. A forum to share exam preparation tips, study materials, practice. (592 members)
• Development Tools -- Are you a developer, or user of development tools such as PL/SQL, ApplicationExpress (ApEx), java or other languages and tools (even third-party, like PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, Ruby, Rails, TOAD, ER/Studio, ERwin, MySQL, etc)? If so, this is your place to hang out. Join other developers to exchange... (1,288 members)
• Enterprise Manager Desktop Widgets -- "Widgets" are downloadable Rich Internet Applications that expose EM Grid Control functionality on the desktop. This group is for you to provide feedback and vote on a series of widgets that we are building or should build. (43 members)
• Oracle Technology Network (OTN) -- For members and admirers of Oracle Technology Network community. (1,113 members)

To view the complete list, go here: Oracle Mix hot groups

Monday's metrics:

Registered Mix users (weekly growth)

54,447 (+0.9%)

Active users (percent of total)

Last 30 days: 4,058 (7.5%)
Last 60 days: 8,516 (15.6%)
Last 90 days: 12.288 (22.6%)

Traffic (30-day)

Visits: 8,775
Page views: 52,941

Twitter

Followers: 2,722
List mentions: 91

User-generated content (30-day)

New ideas: 14
New questions: 38
New comments: 87

Groups

There are currently 1,320 Mix groups (requires login).

Missed these for the past couple of weeks, so here's the latest on metrics for November:

Registered Mix users (weekly growth)

53,939 (+0.5%)

Active users (percent of total)

Last 30 days: 3,975 (7.4%)
Last 60 days: 8,741 (16.2%)
Last 90 days: 12.231 (22.7%)

Traffic (30-day)

Visits: 8,917
Page views: 55,428

Twitter

Followers: 2,686
List mentions: 88

User-generated content (30-day)

New ideas: 15
New questions: 42
New comments: 93

Groups

There are currently 1,315 Mix groups (requires login).