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- What is LEED?
- "Going green" is becoming commonplace in the corporate world. Paul Holland, general partner at Foundation Capital, explains LEED, the metrics used to certify the "green-ness" of a construction project.
- Tags: Construction, Metrics, Green Technology, clean technology, Adam Grosser, Foundation Capital, LEED
- Whiteboards 2008-03-31
- Metrics and Art of Psychiatry (zip)
- This e-book explores the use of metrics in Psychiatry. Art of Psychiatry examines the practice of psychotherapy in outpatient and inpatient settings. This monograph is likely to be useful to Mental Health Professionals who have been in practice for a few years. They have seen the problems explored here and...
- Tags: Metrics, Art, Amit Kshetarpal, E-books, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-03-16
- 13 reasons IT hates metrics
- I've blogged about the importance of establishing clear metrics to help align IT and business, especially in relation to areas such as project portfolio management. In a great counterpoint, Ed Yourdon has compiled a list of "13 common political problems associated with metrics initiatives." Ed's a...
- Tags: Metrics, Information Technology, Perception, Metrics Initiative, Chances, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Training Simulations and Metrics in Second Life
- An experiential simulation often works as a better learning tool than a traditional "Lecture + textbook + exam" trio. Today effective Second Life SL educational simulations are rare. Those that exist are often closer to replications than simulations and lack metrics that would allow consistent interpretation of results. Two of...
- Tags: Second Life, Teamwork, Metrics, Training, Delta L Training, Team Management, Management
- White papers 2007-09-27
- WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced Simulation
- One of the most powerful features in WebSphere Business Modeler is the ability to simulate business processes. Creating business models lets the user capture business metrics, such as the times required to perform given tasks, the resources involved, and the costs. The simulation uses these metrics to understand the dynamic...
- Tags: Business Process, Metrics, IBM WebSphere, IBM Corp., Simulation, Operational Planning, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software
- White papers 2007-08-22
- Resource Standard Metrics C C++ C# Java (zip)
- Resource Standard Metrics RSM performs source code metrics and quality analysis for C, C++, C# and Java in any operating system. Analyze lines of code and derive function points, logic complexity, object metrics and inheritance, functional and file metrics, and quality against more than 50 known style and logic problems...
- Tags: Metrics, C, Resource Standard Metrics, C/C++, Programming Languages, Xhtml, C#, XML, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Scripting Languages, Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-06-29
- User Generated Ads grow up: Consumers (not) in control?
- Can consumers be controlled? Is tapping users to create advertising a fad, or a strategy?The questions are open for debate, and they were debated, this morning in NYC at the Interactive Advertising Bureau's User-Generated Content & Social Networking Forum, with the participation of:Cheryl Guerin, VP Promotions & Interactives, MasterCard, InternationalTom Lynch,...
- Tags: User-Generated Content, Metrics, Media, Marketing, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Facebook commercializes 24 million users: Sells special access to News Feeds
- Did you know "young adults are the primary trend drivers in our society." So believes Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, and very young trend setter for his own acount!What is Facebook up to now? Facebook goes commercial, big time.Just days ago I undersocred: Why Facebook is scarier than Google. How so? Just...
- Tags: Social Networking, Privacy, Metrics, Marketing, Facebook, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-06-02
- Google gets Feedburner and in the Web's private business
- Another day, another way for Google to control more of the confidential data of the Web's businesses:Google is now the proud owner of Feedburner, at a rumored acquisition price of $100 million. Worried yet about Google Big Brother peering into your online business?Google Analytics: Should Google be minding YOUR Web business?...
- Tags: Search Advertising, Metrics, Marketing, Google
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Why Google is more dangerous than Microsoft
- Is Google the next Microsoft? NO, Google will one-up Microsoft.While John The Google Search Battelle pleas "Death of journalism--Blame Google? No. Ask Google to lead? Yes," Google merrily puruses its Google News is NO friend to newspaper stance.Google appears to have learned a thing or two from Microsoft, NOT in a good way.Why is...
- Tags: Google, Metrics
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- MySpace to Facebook: WE have the friends, and money
- Is Facebook waging the wrong battles?Facebook: Who needs Yahoo, Craigslist, newspapers? Mark Zuckerberg and company have been floating in conjunction with touted new "game changing" Facebook services in the works.HOW ABOUT MYSPACE?Despite Zuckerberg's incredulous insistence that MySpace is not Facebook's competitive peer, MySpace does indeed reign supreme in the social...
- Tags: Facebook, Metrics, MySpace, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Google (Off) Base: Google Analytics Webmaster Guidelines
- Google Analytics: Should Google be minding YOUR Web business? I underscored last week upon Googles release of Google Analytics V2 amidst much hype and hoopla.Google has long laid down the Google SERP ranking law in its Webmaster Quality Guidelines, saying it aims to wipe out "deceptive or manipulative behavior."A core...
- Tags: Advertising, Google, Google Software Applications, Metrics, Search Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Metrics based IT management
- Most IT management software includes some ability to collect metrics and generate reports. Many organisations do not have a strategy for doing this and so this white paper demonstrate how the decisions driven by these metrics can help organisations to implement continual process improvement.
- Tags: Attachmate Corp., IT Administration, Metrics, Information Technology, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-05-11
- Google Analytics: Should Google be minding YOUR Web business?
- Google is doing a full court press for “V2” of Google Analytics. Occam’s Razor blog by Avinash Kaushik, an “independent consultant” and author of “Web Analytics, an hour a day”:Version 2 is so radically different and provides such a compelling value proposition to users of web analytics that I...
- Tags: Metrics, Google Software Applications, Google, Enterprise
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Web 2.0: What does Pew really know?
- Matthew Ingram hails:"The latest Pew study into how people use the Interweb. These studies are useful in part because the Pew Internet & American Life Project does such a thorough job with them — you know they weren’t cooked up by marketing types to sell more banner ads."Perhaps not, but...
- Tags: Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Social Media, Metrics
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Who needs 'dead tree' old media? Virtually everyone
- Whats better than YouTube clip culture entertainment on an almost weekend?A post sponsored by Wired magazine written by an unamed person, or persons, under the unauthorized, assumed identity of Steve Jobs, titled "Radically, transparentally stupid."Topic? As described by Wired magazines NOT Jobs:Hilarious groveling letter from Rubel to "Mr. Louderback" and...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Print, Metrics, Media, Marketing, Culture, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Google DoubleClick merger: Who wins, who loses
- What does it take to “make the Internet more efficient for end users, advertisers, and publishers,” all in one fell swoop? A single Google check for $3.1 billion made out to DoubleClick!Google’s world wide mastery of SPIN continues, big time, in its determined takeover of the World Wide Web:...
- Tags: Venture Capital, VC, Advertising, Yahoo, Microsoft, Metrics, Google Ads, Google Software Applications, Google, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-14
- Microsoft vs. Google: Will MSN, Windows Live compete?
- Microsoft Steve Berkowitz upstaged by Ms. Dewey, LIVE in the Big Apple, and it was by design!Many portray the Google $3.1 billion cash buyout of DoubleClick as above all a defensive play thwarting Microsoft from acquiring the banner ad serving system which would have provided critical mass, and credibility,...
- Tags: Search, ROI, Google, Search Advertising, Microsoft, Metrics, Media, Marketing, Google Ads, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-14
- Google hurts Yahoo with DoubleClick deal
- Why is Google CEO Eric Schmidt keen on paying $3.1 billion cash to own DoubleClick? The combination of the two companies will accelerate the adoption of Googles innovative advances in display advertising. Take that, Terry Semel!In earnings conference calls, Semel finds particular satisfaction in touting two...
- Tags: Yahoo, Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Metrics, Media, Marketing, Google Ads, Google, Business Models, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Why Google IS afraid of Microsoft, big time
- Is Google celebrating the "death" of Microsoft?Paul Graham believes so, proclaiming Microsoft to be rich but dead.But are Eric Schmidt and company really “not afraid of Microsoft anymore”? Hardly. Google does indeed fear Microsoft, big time, and rightly so.Below are just a few billion dollar reasons why, in rebuttal to...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Venture Capital, VC, Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Mobile, Microsoft, Metrics, Local, Google Software Applications, Google, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-07
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