In the education/information category there are a number of strong sites, with Chabad emerging as a brand leader. Chabad’s main website consistently serves as an example of what a successful educational/informational Web presence can look like. Over the past year its traffic rose by 37 percent and is now significantly above the other sites studied. In contrast, the Web presence of other religious movements – Reform, Conservative and Orthodox Judaism – was much poorer, though OU.org does moderately well.
Chabad Leads in Online Jewish Education
In the education/information category there are a number of strong sites, with Chabad emerging as a brand leader. Chabad’s main website consistently serves as an example of what a successful educational/informational Web presence can look like. Over the past year its traffic rose by 37 percent and is now significantly above the other sites studied. In contrast, the Web presence of other religious movements – Reform, Conservative and Orthodox Judaism – was much poorer, though OU.org does moderately well.
Jewish educational and informational sites are also taking advantage of social media – with My Jewish Learning’s “jewlearn” Twitter account and Aish’s YouTube presence as successful examples – but none has a more focused brand across social media than Chabad. Chabad has leveraged its international identity in coordination with its local chapters to create a social web experience that is both down on a local level and part of something “larger.” The result is quite compelling.
This was a excerpt from an featured on the Jewish Week read it in full here.
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A special Yasher Kochachem to Zalman Shmotkin and Meir Simcha Kogan for their vision,dedication, and endless hard work for for the Chabad.org website and all the affililiates.Chabad .org is is a shining example of chassidim dedicated to spreding the teachingsof the Rebb and Chassidus without looking for personal glory and recognition and without a political agenda.
May you have continued Hatzlacha and Bracha in all that you do.
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Chabad.org are lubavitch’s biggest gift. Thank g-d for them!
Since coming on board, Zalman really revolutionized things from Merkos being more efficient to taking over “kiruv” on the web