In 1999, Seth Godin taught us that opt-in is the right way to treat people regarding email. At the core of opt-in is notification and choice. Now that the public is becoming more aware of passive tracking technologies, the Web Analytics Association believes that there needs to be a clear, visible way for site visitors to make the choice to opt-out of web analytics tracking. Transparency as to what information is being tracked and how the data is being used is a must. It is simply an inevitable future privacy requisite from visitors on your website.

I am pleased to announce that the WAA Membership has elected Dennis R. Mortensen, Director of Data Insights at Yahoo!, to the Board of Directors. Dennis will serve through May, 2010. On behalf of the WAA Board, thank you. We look forward to serving you. Sincerely, Jim Sterne Chairman of the Board.

Low priority (very low actually). I was seriously thinking about how we, post closure, should amalgamate IndexTools and Yahoo from a product marketing point of view. Not necessarily an easy thing to do. However; with an image from ad:tech San Francisco and a Twitter message from Jim Sterne – transitioning becomes crystal clear! :-)
Farewell
John from [...]

I attended my 5th Emetrics (in Stockholm last week) this year, probably making Aurélie and I the most ‘educated’ people in the industry :-) …and Jim! - medals? :-) he he
But beyond that – I was invited to speak at SMX Stockholm at the session:
 
Harnessing Web Analytics Tools
Web analytics tools take raw data and [...]

I attended the Emetrics (Marketing Optimization Summit) in Washington DC earlier this week. And as always, with this mandatory event, everybody was there and every single minute was used ~ SUPER EVENT! .. It felt like I spoke to every single vendor, practitioner, industry analyst and blogger in the analytics (marketing optimization) industry, over [...]

I recently returned from a month in Singapore, where I had the opportunity to explore the Asian Web Analytics market (as far as Singapore represent the region, which of course is not a fair representative). This is no Forester or Gartner in depth market analysis; this is my own very subjective comment and view after:

Meeting [...]

Just finished a fantastic set of authentic Sushi at an all Japanese speaking restaurant – not than I can complain about the good food at the Emetrics Summit Düsseldorf, which was super. However; this German version of the summit is still somehow limited by, the relative to the other summits, low attendee number.
On the fun [...]

Eric interviewed me a good week back on the subject Web Analytics and Click Fraud for a Podcast.
The summary of the podcast:

Reports based analytics approaches vs. metrics based analytics approaches?
The Report surfing sin
The web analysts persons role in a successful analytics strategy
Click fraud and comments on measurements
Challenges facing the web analytics industry in 2007 [...]