Discovering economics & business blogs

Its always interesting looking through the websites that kindly link and send visitors to tutor2u…

We track every interaction on the tutor2u website using the superb Google Analytics.  We can see who comes to the site, which pages they visit, the resources they download, how long they stay, which paths they take through the site and where they leave. Great for data anoraks!

One interesting feature of Google Analytics is seeing where site visitors come from.  Most come from the search engines or simply typing www.tutor2u.net.  Another big group of visitors are “referred” to tutor2u by following a hyperlink on another site.  The referring link data tells us whether it was a Moodle or Blackboard installation, or perhaps another blog!

Looking through the stats yesterday, it was interesting to see just how many Moodle installations are out there - many of which now embed the RSS feeds from our various subject blogs into their resources.  That’s great news - Moodle is by far the best VLE, even though BECTA and the educational establishment would like us all to disown it!

I also noticed an increasing number of Economics and Business studies blogs being set up by teachers, examiners and students.

For example this super one from Paul Ellis at Harrow International School (Beijing) and also one below from an unnamed business/econ teacher

We’ll keep an eye out for other examples over the weeks ahead

Banned in Denmark, but Marmite still available in Harrogate, Eastbourne, Cheltenham and the UK. [24 May 2011]
An end to outsourcing? [18 May 2011]
Your suggestions for new Business Studies resources & training [9 May 2011]
Dont make a hash of it! Using hash tags on Twitter [15 Feb 2011]
How technology is changing the recruitment process [17 Jan 2011]
Starter / Plenary Activity - The Business Studies Categories Game [6 Dec 2010]
Enliven your lessons with the Compendium of Editable PowerPoint Games [23 Oct 2010]
tutor2u on Smarta - An Interview with Jim [18 Oct 2010]
Insights from an Entrepreneur - Fraser Doherty (SuperJam) [10 Oct 2010]
The Frost Report does Stakeholders [9 Oct 2010]
My Visit to Smarta.com [27 Sep 2010]
Tutor2u on Facebook [24 Aug 2010]
Essential business reading for the summer! [5 Aug 2010]
Gearing Up for BUSS4 [6 Jun 2010]
How to make a million before lunch! [12 Apr 2010]
Business priorities in a recession [1 Feb 2010]
AQA BUSS1 & BUSS3 - Intensive Revision Student Conferences December 2010 [12 Dec 2009]
Offshoring and Small Businesses [3 Dec 2009]
T2U and the Theatre of Dreams [3 Nov 2009]
Teaching Activity on Startups - Mini Briefs [7 Oct 2009]
Meet the Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 [30 Sep 2009]
Wipeout - Team Challenge (4) [18 Sep 2009]
Business Week in Pictures [5 Sep 2009]
Analysing the Market - Download Tim Richards CEO Presentation [2 Sep 2009]
AQA AS Business (BUSS1) - Recommended Websites (2009/10) [27 Aug 2009]
Edexcel A2 Business Unit 4a - Brompton Bicycles [26 Aug 2009]
Is Friends Reunited in freefall? [2 Aug 2009]
Business angels take flight - just when small businesses need them [12 Jul 2009]
The Shape of Things to Come - V, W U or L? [25 Jun 2009]
Tracking the progress of three new start-ups [21 Jun 2009]
Mike Southon at the Business Teacher National Conference - Friday 19 June 2009 [4 Jun 2009]
Sources of finance - the bank overdraft rip-off [28 May 2009]
Starbucks Strategy Video - Workshop Material [30 Apr 2009]
Social networking and the product life cycle [5 Mar 2009]
How healthy is my business? [3 Feb 2009]
A Great New Business Studies Visit - Chelsea FC [5 Jan 2009]
Sponsoring a Premier League club shirt - a cursed marketing activity [20 Sep 2008]
Business Studies and Chelsea FC [9 Sep 2008]
A “challenging macroeconomic environment” is the excuse [19 Aug 2008]
Scary Movie 5 - the UK Economy [21 Jul 2008]
Conference Report - Superjam (1) [9 Jul 2008]
New textbooks for AQA AS Business Studies [8 Jul 2008]
BTEC First versus GCSE Business [26 Jun 2008]
Chelsea FC and Business Students - A Request for Help [17 Jun 2008]
AQA AS Business Unit 1 - Recommended Reading List [31 May 2008]
Fraser nominated to experience the sweet taste of success - again! [20 May 2008]
A New Digital Course Companion for AQA AS Business Studies Unit 1 [19 May 2008]

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