Thoughts, musings, and, hopefully, not too many redundancies on the world of business data. If you missed the irony in the previous sentence, you may struggle with my writing style.
Blogrolls, blogrolls, blogrolls. I realized over the weekend that the blogroll(s) on my site were wildly out of date — they reflected some great blogs…but not exactly the ones that I really follow and read most consistently these days.
So, I updated that. But, in the process, I decided to re-open a nasty can of worms [...]
I caught an NPR story about recovery.gov last week, and it sounded really promising. Depending on where you fall on the political spectrum, the various rounds of stimulus and bailout funding that have come through over the past six months fall somewhere between “throwing money away,” “ready, fire, aim,” and “point in what seems what [...]
We had our monthly Web Analytics Wednesday meetup at Barley’s Smokehouse and Brewpub last week. Once again, the Web Analytics Wednesday Global Sponsors (Coremetrics, Web Analytics Demystified, and SiteSpect) sponsored the event, which is always appreciated!
This month, in lieu of a formal topic, Dave Culbertson facilitated a round of speed networking — like speed dating, [...]
I wrote a post last week about PowerPoint and how easy it is to use it carelessly — to just open it up and start dumping in a bunch of thoughts and then rearranging the slides. That post wound up being, largely, a big, fat nod to Garr Reynolds / Presentation Zen. Since then, I’ve [...]
In the interest of not messing with a good thing, we’re returning to Barley’s Smokehouse and Brewpub this month for our regular gathering of full-time, part-time, and just-generally-interested web analyst types.
We had a great turnout last month, and we’re on pace to match that this month, which means we’re needing to go easy on the Web Analytics Wednesday [...]
Slightly off-topic for this blog, and a little dated, but worth sharing nonetheless.
During a discussion with a couple of my co-workers today, I made an observation about how my current company, as well as one of the major consulting firms we use, seem to really be in love with PowerPoint as the documentation/presentation/communication/general-purpose tool of [...]
While not getting as much buzz as social media when it comes to hot topics for in 2009, “customer data management” is something that marketers are starting to take seriously. It’s easy to start envisioning fancy pictures of capturing and using customer data:
Using behavioral data to drive timely and relevant emails
Integrating information across different customer [...]
Three things I know: 1) My wife got the raw end of the deal when she married me, 2) I blog because it keeps my e-mails shorter, and 3) If you have the urge to talk about data usage in business, I'll do so until long after that desire has passed (for you). If you want to know more, check out my About Gilligan on Data page.