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Top ten countries visiting my site

Published February 16, 2010 Uncategorized 1 Comment
Tags: analytics, avinash kaushik, demographics, joel oleson, mike gannotti, sharepoint usage repoting, usage reports, visitors

It’s not year end or something, but like any analytics professional, I always have at least one tab open on my analytics solution. Since starting to work around Microsoft SharePoint products almost 6 months ago, I’ve been updating my RSS reader with relevant content, and the direction of my posts have altered as well (as you’d imagine). Joel Oleson and Mike Gannotti are 2 of the SP experts I came to meet and follow (@joeloleson @gannotti), Avinash is another one of course, and an awesome source for analytics insights. Inspired by Mike’s post from yesterday, I remember I didn’t write an analytics post for a while.

In 2009 (01/01/09 till 12/31/09) I had a slight increase in traffic compared to 2008, however my readers’ demographics haven’t changed that much – same countries as in 2008. Israel sent almost twice as many visitors as in 2008 – Toda people 🙂 Kicking off 2010 as a SharePoint blogger (more like 3rd party SP blogger), it’s gonna be interesting to see what metrics I see come January 2011.

The top ten countries for 2009 were:

United States
Israel
United Kingdom
Germany
Canada
India
Australia
France
Netherlands
Italy

To all my visitors, from the countries above and anywhere else, thank you for dropping by. You make this blog what it is – see you around 🙂

State of the Internet – Bridging the Gap

Published February 11, 2010 Uncategorized Closed
Tags: bloggers, blogs, brittany bohnet, Broadband Internet access, internet usage, state of the internet, visualization

I came across this awesome visual presentation about the State of the Internet over at Brittany Bohnet. Scrolling down the Focus post, I saw the technological gap people are talking about, a gap that prevents some 2 billion people in the world access to information.

The internet makes our world more connected, leverages business opportunities and makes access to information much more easy. Still, internet usage is higher (no surprise) and more accessible (no surprise again) for people with some form of college education and >$30K yearly income. Only 39% of people with less than high-school education use the internet, and only 42% of people with under $30k income has broadband access.

We need to change this. We can change this.

SharePoint Event Calendar for 2010

Published February 10, 2010 Uncategorized Closed
Tags: 2010 events, conference, microsoft, moss, sharepoint, sharepoint 2010, summit, teched

The world may be flat, connected and sharing, but keeping track of the various events, user groups, best practices and conferences about Microsoft SharePoint can be a taunting task. Joel Oleson started this, with his ‘If you could go to one SharePoint conference this year, what would it be?‘ post, and I picked it up from there.

After exhibiting at The SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas last year, I’ve been working on finding out which events are planned for 2010, who’s attending, what are the topics, who’s speaking and more. Sponsorships are an important aspect of our marketing strategy, and has its advantages such as strengthening our brand and increasing our public exposure to relevant stakeholders (customers, analysts, VCs), but there are other aspects to the mix – such as PR, advertising, online, professional publications and others.

I’ve compiled a spreadsheet trying to summarize the SharePoint related events in 2010, based on my own research, and added some events Joel described in his post. Feel free to add events to the spreadsheet, using this form. Once moderated, your entry will be shown in the spreadsheet below.

CardioLog Roadmap for 2010

Published February 5, 2010 Uncategorized 1 Comment
Tags: cardiolog 2010 for sharepoint 2010, intlock, microsoft, moss, roadmap, sharepoint 2010, sharepoint 2010 beta, sharepoint analytics, usage reporting, usage reports

Updated Feb. 11th.

A month into 2010 and we’re working hard on making CardioLog better. Following a successful 2009, with numerous new customers, we sat down – product and marketing teams, trying to prioritize the requests we received from our customers, our partners, our own vision regarding the product, analysts perspective on analytics and Microsoft’s direction with SharePoint 2010. Not an easy task.

From all of that input we compiled our roadmap for 2010, which is available here. We welcome your feedback, and will take any request under consideration, but we cannot promise it will find its way to production. Some highlights that will become available, soon:

CardioLog 2010 Enterprise
Integration with SSP Profiles
Retrieval of the Portal Tree structure with the SharePoint API
Import usage data from SharePoint 2010
Report segmentation by user profiles
Report segmentation by SharePoint groups and audiences
CardioLog Lite for SharePoint 2010
Funnel reports
Site overlay
And more

Again, the full list is available on our website.

We also launched ‘CardioLog 2010 for SharePoint 2010 Beta Program’, which will allow our customers to evaluate the integration with SharePoint 2010. We have big plans for the next release of SharePoint, here’s what we’re working on:

As with MOSS, CardioLog will provide an independent JavaScript tracking agent for collecting browser activity for SharePoint 2010
Usage reports will be available for data collected by either CardioLog or SharePoint 2010 (Logging DB)
CardioLog will continue to provide enhanced reporting segments through integration with SharePoint 2010 SSP Profiles, SharePoint 2010 groups and security info, SharePoint 2010 document metadata, Active Directory user attributes, and more
We plan to track usage within the SharePoint 2010 Workspace (offline experience)
CardioLog reports will be available as SharePoint 2010 web parts

As you can tell – we have our hands full.

We also made some adjustments to our Support Policy, and continue to update the Forum and FAQs with feedback we receive from customers, analytics tips and best practices. Now is also the time for you to start following CardioLog on twitter – to receive product updates, tips & tricks, announcements and more.

CardioLog Standard

We also introduced a new addition to our portfolio – CardioLog Standard. The new edition is ideal for small and mid-sized companies, starting to explore the possibilities of analytics, looking for an affordable yet accurate solution – designed for Microsoft SharePoint portals. CardioLog Standard boosts roughly the same features as our Professional Edition, with some limitations (see table). If you’re looking for a small-sized, on-premise web analytics solution, our Standard Edition is your choice. You can download a free trial version now.

Apple iPad: No one better gift it to me

Published January 28, 2010 Uncategorized Closed
Tags: apple ipad, hitler, iphone, parody, steve jobs

The Hitler parodies are spreading fast, with numerous versions to daily news.

This time, they were very quick in the production (although it’s probably on a template), but crazy hilarious: Hitler responds to iPad. And thanks to Ayelet for facebooking this and making me laugh!