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Weekly Top Ten
For the period July 27 through August 3 2008, the following are this blog’s “top ten” Managing Technology posts, ranked in descending order by the number of unique pageviews recorded by Google Analytics:
Dennis D. McDonald
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Google Gadget Tracks Relative Frequency of Survey Text Responses
Readers of this blog may have noticed that I have posted a link to a brief (one-minute) questionnaire survey; the survey link appears near the top of the left hand column of this page.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Google, Tag Clouds, Metrics, Surveys
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I Was Wrong about Google Docs
I posted Painful Lessons Learned from Using Google Docs last week when I discovered a spreadsheet, a spreadsheet form questionnaire, and a series of documents missing. That post was a followup to a very positive earlier post, Lessons Learned from Using Google Docs.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Google, Metrics, Surveys
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How Corporate RSS Supports Collaboration and Innovation
If you haven’t seen it yet, check out corporate IT manager Jim MacLennan’s RSS: Underappreciated Web 2.0 in the Enterprise blog post.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Collaboration, Project Management, Innovation, RSS, Cost Analysis, Tagging, Metrics, Email, Adoption, PowerPoint, Knowledge Transfer
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Dennis McDonald's Blog's Top Ten Posts of 2007
Here are my blog’s Managing Technology posts for 2007, sorted in descending order by the unique page views recorded by Google Analytics.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Web 2.0, Social Networking, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Metrics, Adoption, Strategy, Strategic Planning, Lists
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Web 2.0 Sites and Ad Dollars
In Analysis: Why Some Web 2.0 Sites Will Never Attract Big Ad Dollars, Edelman's Steve Rubel discusses data that suggests that certain "web 2.0" sites have poor ad selling potential.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Web 2.0, Metrics
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Slumming Through My Web Site Traffic Logs, Part 1
I keep track of my web site traffic numbers. Partly I'm just curious about what I can find out about visitors. I'm also interested in what people do when they get here.
Dennis D. McDonald
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What department should manage a corporate "social networking" program for lead generation?
What department should manage a corporate "social networking" program for generating business leads? I thought about this while responding to the question posed on Linkedin Answers by Dave Biskner, How would you implement a staff-wide networking program?
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Web 2.0, Collaboration, Social Networking, Social Media, Metrics, Facebook
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Learning to Use Google Analytics, Part 5
Google announced on June 12 some additions to the new Google Analytics service. Chief among these is the availability of hourly updates, which allows for more realtime tracking, which occasionally comes in handy.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Google, Tag Clouds, Tagging, Metrics, Search, StumbleUpon, Squarespace, How To
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RSS Feeds: Results of a "Full" versus "Partial" Experiment
Dave Munger in The end of the RSS experiment presents the results of data collected to analyze what happened when his web site turned off partial RSS feeds and substituted full RSS feeds. A reduction in site page hits corresponded to the publishing of the full RSS feeds, presumably because feed reader users had no need to return to the web site -- where ads are visible.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Publishing, RSS, Advertising, Social Media, Metrics, Facebook, Market Research
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