Here's a shout-out to the Douglass Alumni and all the folks in Riverview-South Central, and to our neighbors in Kingsport, Johnson City, Bristol and the surrounding East Tennessee-Southwest Virginia area.
Your viewership of the pictures, photographs and videos in the website's PHOTO GALLERY have made the albums there, among the the most viewed in the entire country.
WEBSHOTS is our official picture/photo/video server. WEBSHOTS has 2 million monthly visitors and more than 520 million photos and videos on file, making it one of the largest photo- and video-sharing sites in the world. It is a service we subscribe to, to make it easy to view and access the photos and videos.
And the Douglass Website is one of its main contributors, hence:
Since the website started almost 3 years ago, as of today (Monday, November 9, 2009), we have 261 albums in our PHOTO GALLERY. Since Day One, those albums have had (drum roll, please)..
579,240 views.
OVER A HALF MILLION VIEWS have been made to at least one of the albums over that time. That's 132 times the size of Kingsport. It's also the size of Kingsport, Johnson City, both Bristols, Elizabethton, Greeneville, PLUS... Knoxville, Chattanooga, Oak Ridge and Maryville-Alcoa. All put together.
Just this past week ALONE, the albums had 12,308 visits.
Here's where your favorite albums rate in WEBSHOTS list of galleries:
Under REUNIONS & CELEBRATIONS, your albums viewed rank 11th out of 39,324 WEBSHOTS members (102,408 views)
Under CURRENT EVENTS, your albums viewed rank 31st out of 4,489 WEBSHOTS members (47,942 views)
Under FAMILY, your albums viewed rank 3953rd out of 201,863 WEBSHOTS members (11,352 views)
Under HISTORY, your albums viewed rank 196th out of 10,127 WEBSHOTS members (46,925 views)
Under SCHOOL REUNIONS, your albums viewed rank 15th out of 30,654 WEBSHOTS members (65,440 views)
The photos and videos are all about YOU, Douglass Alumni, friends and neighbors in Riverview and South Central Kingsport, and our friends in the surrounding communities. You all make it possible. The website and its pictures/videos (both current and historic) are all about OUR interests, our families, our community, our school, and OUR future. Nobody has ever considered OUR history before. Your Douglass website is proud to serve the proud communities of Riverview and Douglass!
