I try to look for common themes in the things I see, read and experience and one that has cropped up recently has been the avocation of the iterative design process. I wonder if this is something of a self-fulfilling prophecy, since I have long been a fan of it myself. After all, I work [...]
Groundswell by Forrester Research’s Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff is an evergreen book on planning social media engagements for companies of any size. What is a Groundswell? “A social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other, rather than traditional institutions like corporations.” They do a great job [...]
The time had come to upgrade Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) to SharePoint Foundation 2010. Our server team was planning the migration to SQL Server 2008 and 64-bit servers. While this plan is scheduled to take place over the course of this year, I decided to upgrade now instead of waiting to be pressed [...]
As someone who’s had to type a long web address into a smart phone, I’m a big fan of using a QR code as a short cut. So if you’re the business owner, how do you track the usage of the QR codes you generate? By creating specific “dummy” URLs that can specify the source, [...]
I was surprised at the depth that Avinash Kaushik’s Web Analytics: An Hour a Day provided in terms of detailing the entire analytics landscape. I had really expected the book to be geared for the entrepreneur looking to optimize their online business – which it did address – but it was definitely more geared to [...]