Great evening out tonight! Nice to see former clients, colleagues and potential customers :-) Alex of Public Insite gave a great overview of a project they did about a site promoting healthy lunch ideas…
Public Insite sponsored the event including 2 drinks per person and some munchies - very kind Alex!

See photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/darlenemoore/WAW or on Facebook - the photos are open to all.

I think this is the first ever Web Analytics Wednesday put on in Ottawa! There is an unofficial competition to see if we can get more people to turn up than Santa Barbara can!

We are meeting in the Snug Pub room at the Preston St. Heart & Crown (corner of Preston and Aberdeen). Alex Langshur of PublicInsite will present a short case study on tracking and analyzing a web-based social marketing initiative, followed by discussion and appetizers.

Come meet your colleagues in the Ottawa & Gatineau web analytics / site optimization community and let everyone know you are attending by registering (for free) at http://www.webanalyticsdemystified.com.

See you there!

Follow Web Analytics Wednesday Conversations on Twitter…

Absolutely fantastic! Google Analytics has a beta feature out that allows viewing of your web stats by day, week or month. Previous to this beta, if you chose a period of 3 months for example, you saw numbers for the entire 3 month chunk. Now if you were to choose a one year time period you would be able to see each month individually in the date graph.

In this first screenshot you can see where you would change the date view options from day to week to month:

How the first quarter of 2008 appears in day view:

And week view:

And finallly, month view:

Way to go Google! Now if date selection could just be a touch faster we’d be happy :-)

And yes I realize the quality of pictures here is not very good. I’ll have to get Jess the Intern to fix those up this afternoon :-)

Are you new to Google Analytics?

If so, check out the visual goodies I’ve been working on — “Google Analytics for Beginners” Youtube Videos.

I have to admit, the first one’s a bit shaky. Slowly, slowly, I’m getting better!