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The stories of UQ alumni and their achievements are reaching a growing global audience after the successful launch of Graduate Contact online.

Since it went live in June 2009, more than 14,000 page views have been recorded from readers in 93 different countries and territories. Among these are Iran, Palestine and Suriname – the smallest country in South America.

Australian users are recording the majority of hits, with those from the USA, UK, Singapore and Malaysia rounding out the top five.

Graduate Contact editor Cameron Pegg said he was pleased to see the diversity of UQ’s alumni community reflected in the uptake of the website.

“We hoped this resource would appeal to graduates and readers around the world and this is proving to be the case,” Mr Pegg said.

“Creating a custom-built website has been the biggest change in the magazine’s 20-year history, and we are glad to see alumni getting behind the online version and making the most of its features.”

Graduate Contact online stories are categorised with “tags” for  easy searching, and are also open to comments. Readers can email articles of interest to others with the click of a button, and share them via social networking sites such as Facebook.

“We are very proud of the magazine, and the website means we can engage with a larger and more diverse audience,” Mr Pegg said.

“We want the website to evolve with our readership, so I encourage alumni to log on and let us know their thoughts via our survey.”

All graduates with known e-mail addresses also receive an e-newsletter version of the magazine at the time of printing. To subscribe to the e-newsletter, simply update your details here.

Following this special Centenary edition, the Summer 2010 Graduate Contact will be published in November 2010.

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