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Hi, I'm JACE .
Welcome to this issue of the Noticing Newbies newsletter. Join me as I take you into some nooks and crannies of Writing.Com that you may not have found time to check out yet. This newsletter is about and for you. And for you seasoned members, I hope you'll find something you can take from my ramblings. 
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You may be new to Writing.Com; you may be a seasoned member of many years. Let's talk about a pretty innocuous word often used onsite.
Views.
We "view" our own, or another member's, Portfolio. We "view" reviews ... or static items ... or newsletters ... or just about any item on WDC. Obviously I'm talking about looking at a particular page.
I first look at the number of views for any item I check out. But I tend to be a statistics geek. For example, you can find the number of views that your Port has received by clicking on the Stats and Info link. Additionally, each of the items within your Port contains the number of views for that item in the Information window for that item.
Why is this important? You can use the number of views to gauge which items are the most popular. If you desire to publish, you might spend your time polishing the most popular items for publication. Or, you might wish to solicit more views of items you feel are important by "sponsoring" them using the BidClick feature, or listing them on "The Shameless "Plug" Page" , both of which can be found in the Community tab of the Navigation menu.
Every time a person clicks on a WDC page, a view is generated. One can't read a story, review a poem, post in a forum or check out a group without generating a view. There is no direct correlation between the number of reviews of an item and the number of actual reviews that item has received. But it is safe to say the number of reviews received is less than the total number of views.
Some views are visible to all members; some are visible to select members only. For example, only Moderators and above can see the number of views for the official WDC newsletters. Of interest to me is that the average number of views for each of the latest weekly issues is fewer than 55. Contrast that with the average number of 260 for archived issues (older than several years). This shows me that folks do go back and read (or re-read) older issues.
My first Noticing Newbies newsletter, "Noticing Newbies Newsletter (June 29, 2011)" , currently has more than 2000 views. Yet my latest issue of last month has fewer than 600. During these past ten years, I have penned 117 newsletter editions covering nine of the 13 official newsletters with more than 172,000 total views. With just under 10,000 views of my primary Portfolio page, I find newsletters are my most prolific writings in terms of reader views.
Well, perhaps these issues were actually read; perhaps not. But the opportunity is there, isnt't it?
Where do you stand in your own Portfolio, and individual items? Will knowing the number of views each item has change how you write ... or how you advertise your items?
Best of luck with all your writing endeavors.
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Check out this forum designed to assist Newbies.
Then drop in on these Newbies. Take a moment to review this offering ... or something else in their Port. Welcome them to WDC through a scribble in their Notebook.
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Thanks for spending time with me today. At the bottom of every newsletter is a section entitled
followed by a text box. If you liked what you read (or if you didn't), please take time and drop me a line. I'd love to hear your ideas.
From the mailbag:
From hbk16: Writing.com is a school that offers someone the chance to perform his writing skills mostly and reviewing ones too. It is good to interact with other members because someone cannot learn and teach alone. This is a two ways road that lets someone evolve especially when someone believes that he should learn from anyone and teach to anyone. A strange may learn from a native but a native may learn from a strange one too.
Writing.com offers you a solid base for being a good author when tomorrow you will decide to get your own lucrative writing business.
From the Newsfeed:
From Dragonfly  : I try and base what I write around giving some kind of hope or another. I don't always succeed but I try. It's difficult for me to read dark stuff, the kind of stuff that takes away something. It's like taking a piece of a soul/person/existence. I've seen to much dark stuff in real life and have only made it though by those little grains of hope, whether imagined or real.
From elephantsealer : I give and take, although not at the same time! It is fun to give as well as to take, especially when what one is taking maybe the best aid to my writing!!! Yipee!!!
From Annie Baer  : Generally, I am more of a giver because of all the Grace that I am fortunate enough to recognize and thus, acquire. But as a writer, I am still trying to muster enough courage to be a giver.
From S : I don't take because, after 30+ years of writing and whatnot, I don't think there's any reason to take from anyone. I might borrow an idea from TV or a book or something, but by the time I've finished that was just an 'inspiration' and bears no resemblance to the original.
I try to give. I've offered help here at WdC based on my years and successes in trad publishing, but no-one has taken me up on it. I no longer give critiques that are less than 3-1/2 stars because then I am just abused by writers who think they know best because "mummy said I'm a good writer" or "ideas are more important than the tools of writing", so giving in order to help those people who might need it most has become something I avoid. On Twitter I used to give writing advice, but copped abuse. The only place I give advice and it is looked upon with some sort of favour is at university, but maybe we're a little bit more serious about our writing there, and with a few beginner writer friends who have trusted me to be honest, brutally so.
From Damian211  : I would have to say both, with more along the lines of giving when it comes to friends, family, etc.
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