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Which Demographic is Driving Twitter’s Popularity? Not senior citizens

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Which Demographic is Driving Twitter’s popularity? where popularity is measured by the visitors they send me (the publisher). Definitely Not Teens as the New York Times correctly pointed out today, BUT neither Senior citizens. If anything Middle Adulthood is the term we should use for the demographic driving Twitter’s success.

Using Web Analytics Insights to Sell More

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

I did a Presentation and Talk in Boston not long along (Internet Retailer conference in June), about how e-commerce (store) owners could easily take advantage of their analytics package. It ended up being two simple and very actionable ideas (tricks), which I believe most folks should be able to take advantage of. BUT I just made the effort (it is summer after all) in uploading the actual presentation to slideshare; a presentation which you can find embedded.

Cookie Survey Results (follow-up) – Lack of knowledge of what Cookies are is not a barrier to acceptance

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Generally, knowing what cookies are does not seem to be a barrier to acceptance. In addition, ignorance of what they are does not seem to be a barrier to acceptance. Most of those surveyed did not know of any problems caused on their computers by cookies and for that reason did not fear them. This did not mean that they knew what cookies were or even had much interest in finding out. Again, as in the first survey, to a large degree, convenience is an important consideration – knowledge that, for example “Facebook forgets me if I delete cookies” outweighs any other possible concerns.