Web Analytics educational opportunities (...and prophetic blogs)

John Lovett from Aberdeen recently (July 2007) produced a review of the educational opportunities (Analytics University: Part I and Part II ) that companies, analytics practitioners and aspiring web analysts can take to further their knowledge of web analytics. He split this into four different avenues as of today:

• Vendor Sponsored Programs
• Analytics Consultants, Blogs and Guru Sessions
• Community Forums & Industry Associations
• Academic Programs

The Reports are (6 and 9 pages), free and well worth a read - the only thing I am missing here are the European vendors, whether that be IndexTools or Nedstat. I am sure Lars Johansson would agree with me here? :-)

John included the following comment under his, Have You Been Blogging Today - section : “A sampling of prophetic blogs and bloggers includes:”

• Lies, Damned Lies… (Ian Thomas)
• Occam’s Razor (Avinash Kaushik)
• WebAnalytics.be Blog (Aurelie Pols)
• Web Analysis, Behavioral Targeting and Advertising (Anil Batra)
• VisualRevenue - Web Analytics & Affiliate Marketing blog (Dennis R. Mortensen)
• Web Analytics Demystified Weblogs (Eric T. Peterson & Judah Phillips)
• Web Metrics Guru (Marshall Sponder).
  

“Each of these sites can provide hours of education and are likely to rock your notions of web analytics while maintaining the ability to teach you something you didn’t know.”


This is of course flattering and I am happy to see that he noticed the blogs that matters to me as well - I ofcourse have an additional 1x on my list as well :-)

Other Links:
Aberdeen on Web Analytics Education – By Jim Novo