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Dennis R. Mortensen from Yahoo! elected onto the Web Analytics Association Board of Directors

- by Dennis R. Mortensen. Monday, August 18, 2008 - 14 Comments
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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.

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IndexTools, a Yahoo! Service - Discontinuation of White Label Functionality

- by Dennis R. Mortensen. Thursday, August 7, 2008 - Post a comment
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Following the IndexTools acquisition, Yahoo! has evaluated all aspects of the business and how to address its broad customer needs and has decided that providing the White Label functionality no longer corresponds to the current business model with respect to IndexTools and its Partners.

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Candidates for Election to the WAA Board of Directors

- by Dennis R. Mortensen. Saturday, July 26, 2008 - 9 Comments
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A month ago we put out the Call for Nominations to fill the vacant seat on the WAA Board of Directors. We were delighted by the enthusiastic response we received, and are pleased to announce six qualified and committed nominees for the Board.

Dennis R. Mortensen, Akin Arikan, Nicolas Babin, Matthew Langie, John Payne and Mark Wachen.

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The Web Analytics feature race is largely over

- by Dennis R. Mortensen. Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 8 Comments
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The Web analytics feature race is largely over and we are left with Web Analytics providers competing on Price and Flexibility

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Yahoo! Analytics Book

- by Dennis R. Mortensen. Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 16 Comments
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– I finally signed the contract with Wiley Publishing and will write the following book during the fall: Yahoo! Analytics, Tracking, Reporting, and Analyzing for Data-Driven Insights

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Briefing on Web Analytics and the Yahoo! acquisition of IndexTools

- by Dennis R. Mortensen. Friday, June 20, 2008 - 2 Comments
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I am participating in a Snow Valley briefing on how the Yahoo! acquisition of IndexTools affects the web analytics market. Thursday 3rd July 2008.

- An introduction to Index Tools and how it can help your business
- How organisations can get access to Index Tools now
- What the deal means for clients using Index Tools already
- How Index Tools compares to other analytics packages in the market
- How to get the most from Index Tools

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Y! IndexTools - Add New Web Analytics Accounts Feature reactivated!

- by Dennis R. Mortensen. Friday, June 13, 2008 - 5 Comments

Hi, there has been a bit of a, Yahoo IndexTools Web Analytics for Free, debate over at the Yahoo Web Analytics Forum and also a splendid post by Eric Peterson (which is where I got the hilarious blog picture from) - about WHEN we will be FREE for all.
We sent out the below message on the [...]

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Moving to WordPress!

- by Dennis R. Mortensen. Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 3 Comments
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… and as you can see; that means a bit of clutter while moving. :-)
Sorry about that! - But Joost finally persuaded me.
See you soon, with real content and insight!
Cheers :-)
Dennis R. Mortensen

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Siegert from These Days Interviews Dennis R. Mortensen

- by Dennis R. Mortensen. Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 2 Comments
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My good friend Siegert from These Days interviewed me the other day – over at his blog ActiveMetrics. We talked about the following exciting subjects:

- What is the USP of your WA solution?
- From your experience, do you see a difference between the WA market in the US and Europe?
- How do the three supposedly most advanced regions of Europe compare in level of Web Analytics advancement?
- What’s your opinion on Eric Peterson’s suggestion to setup a separate WAA for Europe?
- What will be the next step or hot topic within WA? How do you see the evolution?

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The 5 most used Web Analytics reports - usage study

- by Dennis R. Mortensen. Monday, May 26, 2008 - 2 Comments

Summary:
Based on the results of ’the 5 most used Web Analytics reports’ usage study - one can conclude that there is an evolution towards less use of standard reports for the sophisticated Web Analytics user. In point of fact to the extent where 1 in 10 reports requested by a sophisticated web analytics user [...]

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