Author Archives: Jason Thompson

#Measure Plaque for charity: water Project

As many of you remember, back in December the #Measure community rallied together to raise an astonishing $5,260 to provide clean drinking water for a very needy community. Because we raised over $5,000 we are allowed to provide a short message to be written on a plaque that will designate who sponsored the project. The [...]
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Custom Omniture Dashboards: Part 1 – Getting the Data

Back in April I wrote a blog post titled ‘Analytics All-Stars: Create Custom Dashboards Using APIs.’ The post described the high-level framework needed to create actionable dashboards outside of the SiteCatalyst interface. After publishing the post, I received comments from several people asking for more detailed instructions on how to create custom dashboards, so I [...]
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Failure is an opportunity

Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others. ~Tao Te Ching Jason ThompsonJason is the Sr. Director of Community Solutions at Keystone Solutions. [...]
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Mobcast: Valued Customer Service to Bagging Your own Groceries!

On todays show we discuss measurement as it relates to customer service and aspects of social media. Please feel free to add your thoughts and comments as we strive to make the show better every week. This week Michele Hinojosa joins us….. so that makes things better already! Direct Download Link Podcast RSS Feed Segment [...]
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Analytics and Social within the organization, a mystery yet to be solved?

Wow, today’s podcast reached pretty deep into organizational structure, the value of data, social media integration, proof of value case studies and more! We really could have broke this up into a few Mob Casts! Find the show notes below for a snapshot of the show: Direct Download Link 1:00 min: Social Media & Web [...]
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The Measure MobCast

I’ve recently begun a new project, with a couple other buddies of mine, called the Measure MobCast. It’s a weekly podcast covering everything from traditional web analytics to marketing to social media and everything inbetween. The first two episodes of the podcast are already out: Influence, Lame Buzzword or Qualitative Metric? “On the inaugural launch [...]
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Don’t Track Me, Dude!

All of us have opted-in to being tracked for an eternity. This opt-in decision was made for us the moment our parent’s decided to have sex or perhaps even earlier at the time of the Big Bang. Before you completely write this idea off as far fetched, give me a moment to try to explain. [...]
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Social Media Isn’t a Marketing Channel, Don’t Measure It Like One

Just because you “can’t allocate revenue” to each Social Media interaction, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be there. Social Media is just another location where your customers may or may not be. If they are there, then you should be there. Jason ThompsonJason is the Sr. Director of Community Solutions at Keystone Solutions. If you are [...]
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Analytics All-Stars: Create Custom Dashboards Using APIs

At Omniture Summit 11, I was honored to be part of the Analytics All-Stars team. In the break-out session, I talked about how you can make use of APIs to create custom dashboards that drive action. One universal truth I have discovered, after working with many different companies to optimize their analytics practice, is that [...]
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Analytics All-Stars: Think Before You Code

At Omniture Summit 11, I was honored to be part of the Analytics All-Stars team. One of the topics I covered in the break-out session was centered around the key things that should be done before you begin deploying tracking code. Getting access to a new analytics package is like unwrapping that shiny birthday present [...]
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