Learning to use SiteCatalyst
As you may (or may not) be aware, I have learnt how to use many different web analytics tools over the almost five years that I’ve been an analyst. When I first started at the AA we used Redeye, where …
Author: Alec Cochrane
Whencanistop – a year in numbers
Everyone does one. So that means I can too. That’s all the justification I need. No really – I don’t need anything more, just the satisfaction of knowing that everyone else is going to write about their blog in this …
Business Models for Publishers
Given that I am changing jobs from working for the UK’s biggest B2B publishing company (that’s RBI, by the way) – I’m on holiday at the moment – to go and work for a Government website that gives advice to …
How to make Slashdot work for you
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about how you can make digg work for you (admittedly the hard way, as opposed to the sending links around to a group of mates with a designated time for everyone …
Using Hitwise dashboards
Given that I am about to move jobs, I thought that it would be worthwhile getting a blog post out about a tool which I currently use, but may not do in the new job. That tool would be Hitwise. …
How you can make Digg work for you
I wrote this in a pit of fury when our company got their IP blocked by those lovely people over at Digg, because someone started spamming their site (I presume, they didn’t actually tell me why). Since then I have …
Google Analytics New Features
Ok guys, I started this post at the end of last week, unfortunately my browser crashed on me and I hadn’t saved it (d’oh), so I thought I’d start again tonight. Basically Google Analytics has been given a bit of …
Is Engagement a metric?
I was about to start this post with “Ok, I’ve talked about engagement before…”, but when searching for those posts, I realised that I’d started a post like that before, so I had to come up with something different. I …
Social bookmarking is all about networking
Whilst I was on the way home from playing tennis earlier (I know, it is far too cold to be playing tennis) I thought that I could have named this post ‘taking the fun out of social bookmarking’, but that …
Half a Century of Posts
Seeing as this is blog post number 50 and I’m almost a year in, I thought I might as well give you a nice update on how things are going. Back in 2007 (October 10th) I posted the first of …