Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In the Customer Generation and Customer Retention articles of this series, the focus was on Web performance measurements designed to serve an audience outside of your organization. Starting with Business Operations, the focus shifts toward the use of Web performance measurements inside your organization.
Why Business Operations?
When I was initially developing these ideas with my colleague [...]
In: Browsers| Technology| The Web
3 Sep 2008Recently there was an outage at a hit-tracking vendor I was using to track the hits on my externally hosted blog, leaving me with a gap in my visitor data several hours long. While this was an inconvenience for me, I realized that this could be mission critical failure to an online business reliant on [...]
In: RANTING
9 Sep 2007In today’s Boston Globe, there is an article discussing why Facebook went to the Valley instead of staying in the Boston area (article online).
Having now lived in both areas for nearly equal amounts of time, I can tell you that there are substantial differences between them. People from Boston may violently disagree, but I have found [...]
In: Blogging| Technology
19 Mar 2007Today, I want to talk about what happens when you aggressively adopt an online strategy, but leave your print subscribers behind.
I subscribe to a great architecture and design magazine, whose name I will exclude from this discussion, with a fantastic and informative online presence. The archive and articles available to subscribers are a fantastic resource [...]
In: Life
30 Nov 2006Just went online and thought I would share the Yahoo TV comments so far.
Rushi’s Ramblings
Jason Blogs
Paul Kedrosky
Dave Winer
RowdyData
Oh, and my comments.
Yahoo, please give us an opt-out on this monstrosity. Or better yet, do a complete rollback.
Technorati Tags: Yahoo, Yahoo+TV, Bad+Design, Web+2.0, Bad+upgrade
In: Life
22 Nov 2006So, we’re packing up the minivan and heading for the idyllic wilds of Maine for the Holiday weekend.
I will have connectivity, but frankly, there will be too much going on with five kids, four adults, a dog, and a flock of sheep (no sheep-human interaction! You people are sick!) to be online much.
In: Life| Skype| Technology| Work| smp
20 Nov 2006Over the next 12-18 months, my plan is to move to working from home more. Like, 100% of the time, when I’m not travelling. To help accomplish this, and to free myself from the servitude to the Telcos, I have started to migrate almost exclusively to Skype for my work communication.
In this area, I bought [...]
Now that I am back on US soil, I have some tips for surviving your trip to London.
GSM Phones. If you are one of the millions in the United States who subscribe to a CDMA service (Verizon, Sprint, etc.), invest a few bucks on eBay and buy a low-end, unlocked, tri-band GSM phone. I have used [...]