April 29th 2010
Get “Officially Good” at Analytics For digital managers, being analytics savvy is as much an executive requirement as financial acumen. Though most management programs don’t focus on web analytics, there is a straightforward way to get a great introduction through the world’s most-used system: Google Analytics. Last year, Google started Conversion University, which provides a comprehensive […]
April 28th 2010
Back in July of 2008 we covered the story of Terry Childs, a network administrator for the City of San Francisco, who was imprisoned after taking sole control of the city’s network. Though services were not interrupted, he locked out the rest of the city’s IT staff from the city’s network. After the Mayor of […]
April 27th 2010
Imagine you’re at a digital marketing conference today; there are four sessions about to start. Come on in. Are Online Marketers Over-Spending On Acquisition? Yep! Is Simplicity the Good Manners of Our Age? Laws of Simplicity and Simplicity in Laws Website Competitive Intelligence: Don’t Manage to Bogus Data Add Video to Your Marketing Mix Now: […]
April 26th 2010
In case you haven’t noticed, these are spectacular days for Apple. Its stock is trading at an all-time high, and its last report to the street showed a 90 percent increase in profits. In fact, Apple’s growth has made it a challenger to Microsoft in terms of market valuation. The chart to the right shows […]
April 22nd 2010
Digital marketing is different from traditional media channels because it is inherently measurable. All the other great attributes of this channel — user participation, mobility, video, personal networks — are built on top of this quantifiable benefit. Measurability is our medium’s killer app. So why do most organizations and websites fail to use web analytics […]
April 20th 2010
In the cloud, nobody can tell if you’re a web page. In talking with people about the post The Siteless Web and the End of Brand Website Rule: Web 3.0, I found myself suggesting that online visitors will encounter us through three types of experiences: Sites we control: traditional, publishing-based information distribution. Sites others control: […]
April 15th 2010
Online changes seem to happen quickly, but their beginnings are often apparent years in advance. And legal factors provide signals to business about the stability of these new systems. This is an idea I hope we can start to discuss in all the places we talk about the future of the Web. It is from […]
April 12th 2010
This is a story about Eric and Jack, who both blog about the law with an eye on topics that are enlightening, ennobling, or at least entertaining. By now you’ve probably heard about Eric Turkewitz, who wrote an April 1st post in his NY Personal Injury Law Blog announcing he was the new Whitehouse blogger. […]
April 10th 2010
Last week, UsefulArts had its 1,000th subscriber join us on Twitter. For those of you who have encouraged me, thanks. Its been fun joining you on Twitter! If you’re a new reader from Twitter, welcome. And thank you to everyone who has pointed out topics, and kicked around first takes on ideas that later show […]
April 6th 2010
Bad Airport Ad #537: Tiger Woods Loses His Ball. By “What you do next,” I assume they mean, “dump your spokesman in favor of Photoshopped elephants.” The high-flying James Gardner sent this image in, reminding us how overextended Accenture’s relationship with Woods became. The Accenture name emerged in discord, as both Andersen Consulting and Arthur […]
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