I don’t know if it’s just the Mother’s day effect, but the top 10 online retailers for May 2009 were dominated by flower shops. The top shop is converting almost 40% of their visitors to buyers, though the average is just over 5%. Tim, meanwhile, claims he’s lowered his bounce rate to just 10%.
Posted September 2, 2009 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: bounce rates, conversion rates, marketing, metrics, web. Be the first one.
Timeline is a SIMILE project that uses Exhibit JSON (which you can create with Babel).
Posted December 9, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: necode4lib, SIMILE, timeline, timelines, web, web development. Be the first one.
From Jessamyn: “don’t toss up a bunch of bibliographic citations when a decent URL will do. You’re online, act like you’re online.”
Posted September 17, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: citation, citations, google economy, libraries, link, URL, web. 3 Comments.
I’m not sure exactly what I’ll do with it, but thanks to this tip about webkit2png, I now know how to get screen captures of websites. Maybe useful for archiving. Who knows.
Posted September 4, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: screen captures, web, web captures, webkit2png, webshots. One Comment.
Hearing Steve Souders at WordCamp last week got me thinking about website performance, so I went looking for more. The slides from his WordCamp talk are online, but he gave a similar talk at Google I/O which got videotaped and posted richer detail than his slides alone will ever reveal.
Also on his blog: Use the [...]
Posted August 25, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: performance, Steve Souders, web, web development. One Comment.
Have You Thanked the Internet Lately? OneWebDay, our opportunity to celebrate “one web, one world, one wish” is just about a week away (though it falls on Yom Kippur). This video explains a bit and Tim Berners-Lee is planning his own video (worth mentioning: his net neutrality post).
If things work out, I’ll be posting [...]
Posted September 13, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: arrival of the stupendous, internet, onewebday, onewebday2007, web, world wide web. Be the first one.
Inside Higher Ed asks Are College Students Techno Idiots? Slashdot summarized it this way:
Are college students techno idiots? Despite the inflammatory headline, Inside Higher Ed asks an interesting question. The article refers to a recent study by ETS, which analyzed results from 6,300 students who took its ICT Literacy Assessment. The findings show that students [...]
Posted May 14, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: information literacy, students, technoidiots, Technology, teens, web. Be the first one.
Not A Pretty Librarian has kicked things off well with a first post titled “It Is Not A Tool,” covering an argument about which has more value to a teenager: a car or a computer.
On one side is the notion that “She can’t drive herself to work with a computer.” While, on the other side [...]
Posted July 25, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: car, computer, computer use, importance, internet, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, not a pretty librarian, teen, teenagers, value, web. One Comment.
Following Edward Tufte’s advice, I’ve been wanting to offer a presentation without slides for a long time now; I finally got my chance in Portland. The downside is that now I don’t have anything to offer as a takeaway memory aid for my talk. My speaking notes are too abstract to offer for public consumption, [...]
Posted June 6, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: findability, future libraries, google economy, lib 2.0, libraries, library, library 2.0, online libraries, opac 2.0, presentation, usability, web, web 2.0, wpopac. Be the first one.
With 1,800 CMS vendors in the marketplace, we’re mining what we know or know-of as a way to shorten the list. Kim named the following four:
Joomla, a derivative of Mambo
Collage appears to have good content reuse features
OmniUpdate has a good list of higher ed clients
Drupal: open source and turning heads
cms, content management system, joomla, collage, [...]
Posted December 19, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: cms, collage, commercial, content management system, drupal, joomla, omniupdate, open source, oss, web, web management. 3 Comments.