benry blog » Remainders http://www.benry.net/blog Musings on User Experience, Design, Web Analytics and other interests Mon, 03 May 2010 16:00:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 This week’s remainders http://www.benry.net/blog/2008/08/12/this-weeks-remainders-16/ http://www.benry.net/blog/2008/08/12/this-weeks-remainders-16/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:07:45 +0000 Scott http://www.benry.net/blog/?p=518 This week’s remainders is a post from: benry blog

]]> I’m slowly going to get back to blogging again after taking some time off to get settled in our new city, Calgary. Some things below I’ve bumped into recently:

AnalyticsView – the folks at EpikOne have come out with a new online service which promises to give you actionable reports, quickly and easily, from Google Analytics. Congrats to all on this nice product addition.

Semphonic’s XChange Conference is just around the corner. I’m not going but many wickedly talented folks are. There are less than 10 spots left so act quickly!

Congrats to Robbin Steif and crew on a sold-out DC Google Analytics Training Day. Signup to keep informed on upcoming sessions planned for DC and NY.

Mr. Hamel has more Excel 2007 goodies. Check out his latest post on Web Analytics Dashboard Fun.

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]]> I just started blogging for the Web Analytics Association blog. My first post Communicating analytics results went up January 21 (but I forgot to mention it).

My favourite new ad campaign? Diamond Shreddies (for those who don’t eat Shreddies, they are square and haven’t changed in years). Would love to hear if they are tracking recall in stores when people come in and ask if “where are the diamond shreddies”.

Forget the tripod, this $1 image stabilizer works like a charm.

Recording a kick-ass podcast between two macs. It’s that easy.

Top Canadian web rankings from comScore and only one financial institution in the mix TD Bank Financial Group. I’d be concerned if I was RBC or one of the other big 5 banks. TD seems to be winning the reach game.

The folks at Bolt | Peters have released their Ethnio Recruiting online app. Nice.

Five ways to build sustainable word-of-mouth. Frankly I’d say that #3 alone would turn some heads: Call up 5 customers each week just to catch up. Listen to complaints and kudos first and thank them for their honesty. Then ask if they’ll tell a friend or colleague. Hey William, you should have Tamara try this for a few months.

Fluid is a nice new Mac app that gets your favourite webapps a home on your Mac OS X Leopard Desktop.

Happy Webbies. Now they just need to make t-shirts.Desktops, T’s and buttons all available.

The Usability Body of Knowledge is a project of the UPA.

OfficeMax has redesigned and the new navigation is worth a peek. One click access to specific products.

Google Docs – now with forms support. In Firefox you can watch as items are added on the fly.

Scoop on the soon-to-be-released Rubix from IndexTools. Sounds great. Can bring in external data, is fast, can segment across multiple dimensions and sounds like ease-of-use is well considered. Looking forward to viewing this. All bow before the ‘Dennis’.

UI Patterns is another interesting collection of user interface design patterns.

Two seminars worth attending: Web Form Design Best Practices with Luke Wroblewski (March 15) and Site Search Analytics for a Better User Experience with Lou Rosenfeld (March 18).

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]]> Sorry, things have been quiet around here lately as I’ve been away on vacation. Back to regular posting this week, starting with these remainders:

Lovely Charts is an interesting online diagramming application.

Brian Eisenberg would love ScrnShots (I hear Brian has a screenshot collection to end all collections)

Anil Batra is doing a survey to understand bounce rates – take some time to fill it out.

Third Tuesday Vancouver is coming up on January 29 at 7pm. Speaking will be Brian Oberkirch on Social Media and Brands. Brian’s a great speaker and someone who’s social media opinion I really enjoy.

YSlow is a nice add-on for Firefox (p.s. You’ll need to install Firebug first). It analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. YSlow gives you a performance report card, HTTP/HTML summary, a list of components in the page and tools including JSLint.

Versioning CSS and JS files. Nice approach.

Luke W reiterates my long-held belief that metrics need to influence product design and strategy.

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]]> Dennis shares his thoughts on what and how to measure online finance websites. Be sure to download the best practices PDF following the post.

Justin and Danielle from EpikOne are holding a 2.5 hour online training session about how to use Google Analytics to improve your business. A steal at $297USD. Signup online.

The Aviary web-based creative applications look interesting, but all those bird names are bound to get confusing if you’re not an ornithologist.

Building a wireframe? Jumpchart might help make it faster and more interactive.

Niklas Wolkert’s “sketchy” stencil for Visio is nice. Being a pen and paper guy I’m sure to try using this a bit. Full details on usage at guuui.com

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]]> Jared Spool’s Web App Summit looks great. If you register before Dec. 11 for all three days you get a free iPod nano. You might also be interested in reading Jared’s latest article Five Usability Challenges of Web-Based Applications

Coremetrics Announces Free Migration for Visual Sciences HBX Customers. First 25 get free implementation, 6 months free, data migration and training.

FlickScreen is a new favourite Mac OSX app of mine. Take screenshots and move them to Flickr with ease.

Gabriel White’s Small Surfaces blog takes an interesting look at design for mobile technology.

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