Demystifying Web Analytics

(Preferred title: What the hell is web analytics?) Web analytics is Business Intelligence (BI) for your website. Let’s start with an example. You own a shoe shop, and you want at the end of every month, quarter or year to know stuffs like:

User Permissions – Drupal Versus Joomla!

I am a big fan of Joomla! – but I am beginning to find Drupal a more flexible and perhaps powerful CMS tool in the hands of a developer , who is smart enough not to consider building his own CMS software from scratch. One such flexibility comes from the user permissions system in each […]

Nigeria’s most monitored and reported election season yet

Young people from across all walks in Nigeria are bringing a mix of skills, vigilance and brute determination to the tables this election season. As Nigeria decides (#NigeriaDecides) who of the mass of candidates should be handed the mantle of leadership across state and federal legislative and executive institutions, unlike ever before, young people are […]

The Apple iPhone 4, The GoPano and Citizen Journalism

The rise of citizen journalism is no doubt on the increase and with improving technologies it becomes easier to start up as a citizen journalist. Some mainstream media companies have not only identified and supported citizen journalism, they have increasingly institutionalised this kind of journalism – a case in point is CNN’s iReport platform, which […]

Notes from the NTC

Here are urls to collaboratively taken notes: How this works: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=1lOye5S3xi4nofeP2ocXIkCP8FuYvwC0NHuos8MhbZ5k&sort=name&layout=list&num=50 Day three: 19th March 2011: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9VF2B3gqZmZODNiZWVkZWYtNDQyNC00NzdjLWJiYWItMDIzYjE1Nzc2ZGJi&sort=name&layout=list&num=50 Day two: 18th March 2011: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9VF2B3gqZmZOGUyOTQ2YjAtY2RiYi00MWVkLTlkMmUtMzEzYTc3ZjkyOTBl&sort=name&layout=list&num=50 Day one: 17th March 2011 – https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9VF2B3gqZmZNGRhNGYyNTItNWIwZC00OTk2LTgxMTQtZjgwOWUzNTY4MGZk&sort=name&layout=list&num=50

Thoughts from the NTC

Yes, I changed the title of this post from ‘Notes from the NTC’ to Thoughts from the NTC. I am adding the collaboratively taken notes  in another post and prefer that takes the title ‘Notes from NTC’ Its the second day of the NTEN Non-profit technology conference (NTC) and my third in Washington DC. Even […]