Conferences

Another X Change has come and gone.  This year’s conference at the Ritz Carlton in San Francisco was even better, I think, than last year at Napa.  The huddles were more focused on sharing practitioner knowledge, ideas, and best practices, and I really liked that. 

I wonder if anything has more impact on our future than the questions we ask?
First, if we take it on more of a micro-level, imagine going into any random meeting. You will see things differently and have a different experience if you are asking “How can I get out of this meeting as quickly as [...]

Alright, I had to have fun with the title. :) We’re about 4 weeks ago from the newest and most unique analytics conference on the scene: X Change, hosted this year by Semphonic and Web Analytics Demystified. 

If you missed the first year in Napa, you gotta head to San Fran this year!  Allow me to explain how X Change differentiates as I see it:

Just returning from Denmark (land of some of my ancestors), where I presented a paper at the Aarhus School of Business - “Knowledge 360″ conference.
Perhaps the best thing about presenting my paper “Tools and Techniques for Online Cross-Cultural Knowledge Communication” - was that people in the audience knew about research and resources regarding cross-cultural innovation [...]

Since I heard Seth Godin (a “guru” in online marketing) speak yesterday morning, I have not been able to stop thinking about some of his key messages. I’ll explain why I keep thinking about them at the end of this entry. I’m also very interested in your comments - what do you think are the [...]

I heard Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and cancer survivor, speak last night at the Omniture 2008 Summit. Through sharing his story of surviving cancer, his multiple Tour de France wins, and his hugely successful LiveStrong movement (already sold nearly 70 million of those yellow bands) - his main point was to encourage everyone in [...]

The use of web analytics is not just changing online business, but all of business. That is one of the key messages that Josh James, CEO of one of the fastest growing and most innovative companies, Omniture, shared this morning at the opening session of the 2008 Omniture Summit.
Six years ago there was 6 clients [...]

I just participated in the e-Learning DevCon 2007 conference over the last three days, and here were some of the topics and practical skills that I learned more about:

How to create effective simulations for learning
What Web 2.0 things do and do not work for corporate “knowledge management” purposes
How to use video iPods for interactive learning [...]