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A Brand is not a Conversation
In: Commentary| advertising| authority| branding| reputation
12 Jan 2009Brand and Branding are tossed about as sterile concepts that people want to dissect on a repeated basis, as if a deeper understanding of the words themselves will allow a view into the soul of a people.
When I step back and examine these concepts, free of involvement in the world of Brand creation and propagandization, [...]
Methodology Before Measurement
In: Commentary| The Web| Web Performance| Work| business
5 Jan 2009Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Galileo Galilei
The greatest challenge facing companies today is not finding ways to measure performance. The key issue is one of understanding what should be measured and validating that there is agreement on what the purpose of the measurement is.
Organizations are complex. And with complexity arises [...]
Why Terms Matter: Consultant v. SME v. Evangelist
In: Commentary| Work| social media
26 Nov 2008The term consultant is bandied about so much in this new economy that it has lost it’s meaning. Wikipedia defines a consultant as
A consultant (from the Latin consultare means “to discuss” from which we also derive words such as consul and counsel) is a professional who provides advice in a particular area of expertise….
A consultant [...]
Blog Statistics Analysis: Page Views by Day of Week, or When to Post
In: Blogging| Commentary
16 Sep 2008Since I started self-hosting this blog again on August 6 2008, I have been trying to find more ways to pull traffic toward the content that I put up. Like all bloggers, I feel that I have important things to say (at least in the area of Web performance), and ideas that should be read [...]
Blog Statistics Analysis – What do your visitors actually read?
In: Blogging| Commentary
14 Sep 2008Steven Hodson of WinExtra posted a screenshot of his personal Wordpress stats for the last three years last night. I then posted my stats for a similar period of time, and Steven shot back with some question about traffic, and the ebbs and flows of readers.
Being the stats nut that I am, I went and [...]
Web Performance: Your Teenage Web site
In: Commentary| The Web| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org| Work
10 Sep 2008It’s critical to your business. It affects revenue. It’s how people who can’t come to you perceive you.
It’s your Web site.
Its complex. Abstract. Lots of conflicting ideas and forces are involved. Everyone says they now the best thing for it. Finger-pointing. Door slamming. Screaming.
Am I describing your Web site and the team that supports it? [...]
Web Performance, Part IX: Curse of the Single Metric
In: Commentary| The Web| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org| Work
5 Sep 2008While this post is aimed at Web performance, the curse of the single metric affects our everyday lives in ways that we have become oblivious to.
When you listen to a business report, the stock market indices are an aggregated metric used to represent the performance of a set group of stocks.
When you read about economic indicators, [...]
Browsers: The Window and The Firehose
In: Commentary| Technology
3 Sep 2008Three years ago, in a post on this blog, I stated that I thought that the browser was becoming less important as more data moved into streams of data through RSS and aggregated feeds, as well as a raft of other consumer-oriented Web services.
This position was based on the assumption that the endpoint, in the [...]
Google Chrome: See No Evil, Do No Evil – An Internet Performance Perspective
In: Commentary| Technology| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org
1 Sep 2008The intertubes of the Web are abuzz with talk of the new, open-source Google Chrome browser [two articles here and here]. I will not presume to wade into the debate of whether it is necessary, or what strategic business goals Google has set that rely on having its own browser. I will limit my comments [...]
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- Stephen Pierzchala: Cool. Now, if it's not supported by anyone, it should get pulled from the RFC. And now that the [...]
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- Browser Wars: Internet Explorer 8 Usage in US Now Tied with Internet Explorer 6
- Browser Wars – Internet Explorer 7 Use Collapses in the US
- GrabPERF Downtime – May 29-30 2009
- A Week with Windows 7 RC
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Modern Business and the Culture of Assurance
In: Commentary| business
19 Mar 2009I often wonder how much business is lost but the levels of assurance that exist within modern companies.
As information passes through and upward through a company, it is filtered, shaped, refined down to the one salient decision point that all the executives can then discuss. The concern that I have is whether the devolution of [...]