NPM's value is in their membership, print publications, and conferences.
CMAA has a decidedly online-value orientation.
The stats aren't evidence of one or the other's comparative reach and influence. But I do think it is HIGHLY INDICATIVE of each organization's relative hipness.
(Maybe "Hip, not hippie" could be a new unofficial slogan...)
Seriously, those figures are higher than reality, and probably not very meaningful. I suspect that they come from alexa.com, which counts traffic viewed by users with a toolbar installed on their browser -- which has to be an unrepresentative sample.
Our figures from sitemeter (which probably anyone can view) aren't that high. The raw numbers from our web server logs are close to their figure, but also include traffic from web crawlers reading our site: that's not real readership.
Also, it's not clear which sites are included, as our traffic is spread over several host names:
Yea, we are all happily stuck with each other, I must admit. I don't go anywhere else really, except for maybe a peek once in a while at CC or CCW, and very rarely, PTB. But this forum absolutely rocks... especially with the likes of Adam, Gavin and Melo, what more could you want!
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