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Getting to Grips with Google Analytics
I’ve been using Google Analytics on various websites I’ve worked on since..well since before it was Google Analytics (GA). I actually was a paying customer of Urchin before GOOG swallowed them up back in 2005. Before then I’d mainly been using WebTrends and I think AWStats (though that might have come later?) and while I…
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The MySociety Masters in Public Technology Idea..
Tom Steinberg from MySociety has posted an idea today about the need for a Masters (or equivalent) in Public Technology. I think it is a really interesting post and I agree with about 90% of it. The bit I don’t agree with is the focus on software engineers – probably because I’m not one! I…
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Outsourcing Web Teams?
During my seven hour train journey back from Scotland last week I had plenty of time to catch up on my reading and one thing I spotted got the gears turning in my head in a manner that was perhaps neither constructive nor positive 🙂 However a few days have passed and I can now…
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Seeking Open Content Management Systems
So after a couple of years of strictly being a CMS user it looks likely that 2011 will be the year I get properly sucked back into the web content management system(s) black hole. There is every chance I’ll be leading a project to implement a new CMS and subsequently take the opportunity to refresh…
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Thoughts on the HEFCE Review of JISC
So the long awaited (well by me anyway!) review of JISC by Sir Alan Wilson was published this week. To be honest I was expecting a little more noise from my corner of the web about it – alot of people have been conspicuous by their absence as far as discussions online are concerned and…