tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1398753 2009-08-27T06:25:13-07:00 Managing web analytics process, organization, requirements and operations by Phil Kemelor, Semphonic TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54ee6a8ea88340120a524c327970b 2009-08-27T06:25:13-07:00 2009-08-27T06:25:13-07:00

Summertime may be the time for blockbuster movie releases, but I don’t usually associate summer with blockbuster releases among web analytics vendors. WebTrends, with its Analytics 9 release in early August, sought to change all of that. WebTrends is having...

Web Analytics Management tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54ee6a8ea8834011570e04d57970c 2009-07-07T17:05:25-07:00 2009-07-07T18:28:12-07:00

Getting the budget to attend conferences is not what it was a year ago…or even 6 months ago. So, if you want to come to this year's X Change Conference in San Francisco on September 8-11, you likely need to...

Web Analytics Management tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54ee6a8ea8834011570978a03970c 2009-06-29T20:01:38-07:00 2009-06-29T20:01:39-07:00

If you manage a government or non-profit web site, you’ll want to take a look at the research Semphonic recently completed for the Web Analytics Association (WAA) Public Sector Special Interest Group. To view the webcast and download the presentation,...

Web Analytics Management tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68202195 2009-06-17T07:47:22-07:00 2009-06-17T08:44:22-07:00

Over the last few months, there has been a great deal of activity at the most senior levels of the US Government discussing the use of persistent cookies on federal agency web sites. If you are a Federal Web Manager...

Web Analytics Management tag:typepad.com,2003:post-67132795 2009-05-21T20:54:20-07:00 2009-05-25T19:23:07-07:00

I thought Omniture’s Q1 2009 earnings call a few weeks ago provided more insight into the company than past calls; perhaps the result of less than all positive news. The company’s posture in the past has been that it is...

Web Analytics Management tag:typepad.com,2003:post-66669579 2009-05-11T21:15:10-07:00 2009-05-14T10:12:28-07:00

While the rest of the web analytics folks attended eMetrics in San Jose last week, I had the pleasure of participating in JBoye’s Philadelphia 09 conference. This was the first US conference for JBoye; Janus started these conferences in Aarhus,...

Web Analytics Management tag:typepad.com,2003:post-65958005 2009-04-23T22:49:18-07:00 2009-04-23T22:49:18-07:00

As part of the research that went into the 2009 CMS Watch Web Analytics Report, I asked the vendors about their compliance with the WAA Web Analytics Definitions. If you'd like to see how the vendors stacked up you can...

Web Analytics Management tag:typepad.com,2003:post-65445241 2009-04-14T07:11:59-07:00 2009-04-14T07:11:59-07:00

Since Alex Yoder took over the reins as CEO at WebTrends in August, the company has been on an active campaign to make itself over…on both the image and product development fronts. Preaching a message of “openness” this has been...

Web Analytics Management tag:typepad.com,2003:post-65161969 2009-04-06T20:58:31-07:00 2009-04-08T21:31:55-07:00

Last week I had a great conversation about web analytics with the CIO of a federal agency. Why was it a great conversation? He understood the importance of web analytics to his organization, and made the commitment to support web...

Web Analytics Management tag:typepad.com,2003:post-64868337 2009-03-30T20:01:55-07:00 2009-03-30T20:03:24-07:00

In contrast to the great expectations accompanying its beta to duke it out with Google Analytics, the end of the adAnalytics beta and product was announced quietly on March 12. While there hasn’t been an official reason given, it doesn’t...

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