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Leading Through a New Kind of Burnout

By Kimberly Mosley posted 5 days ago
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You’ve made it through the summer, maybe had a chance to use some vacation time, and now you’re ready to tackle a busy fall feeling calm and refreshed, right? Well maybe?  There’s a good chance you aren’t as relaxed these days as you might like. Nor ...
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Building the DAA Membership Database

By Rachel Wright posted 11 days ago
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Our Member Profile has been updated with a few questions on member demographics. These will not be part of your public profile, but will be analyzed in aggregate. If you haven’t yet, please update your profile by clicking the "Update Now" button and ...
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Learning to Lead: A Personal Experience That Put My Emerging Skills to the Test

By Garrett Mark Scott posted 12 days ago
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The Request for Some Simple Tracking In my current role I manage analytics implementations for the United States division of an enterprise company. We had a request to implement tracking on 2 popups that appeared on the homepage of two seperate websites. ...
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Turning Common Website Analytics Issues into Measurement Opportunities

By Brian Keefe posted 15 days ago
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Turning Common Website Analytics Issues into Measurement Opportunities I am just going to come out and say it: collecting website analytics data can be intimidating. It requires a level of technical know-how to implement, training to configure correctly, ...
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Seven IT Hiring Trends For the Year Ahead

By Kimberly Mosley posted 08-12-2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted nearly every industry, fundamentally altering the way most organizations conduct daily business — and that includes how we recruit, hire, and retain IT talent. Robert Half Technology  surveyed more than 2,800 senior ...
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Digital Analytics Leaders: It's Time for Less Tracking Code and More Insights

By Tom Arundel posted 08-05-2021
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A product manager, an analyst and an engineer walk into a bar.  The product manager says, “I need insights fast.” The analyst says, “First, I need tracking requirements from the product manager so I can review them with the engineering and data ...
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Guest Blog: Big Data, Young Talent and the Future of Work

By Erin Lambertz posted 07-15-2021
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Tammy Kim-Newman contributes another great piece for this month's guest blog series, with insight on big data and young talent, and what that could mean for your business. Big data means big business. As technology continues to advance, the need for ...
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DAA Women in Analytics Needs YOU! Yes, You. You, Reading This Right Now.

By Sharon Flynn posted 06-28-2021
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I am very proud to serve the DAA’s Women in Analytics community and greatly admire the contributions the members of this community have made. Recently we conducted a survey of members inviting input on the future direction of WiA, with the goal of reinvigorating ...
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Guest Blog: Tips For Writing Job Descriptions That Attract Next Generation Talent

By Erin Lambertz posted 06-17-2021
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This month's guest blogger, Tammy Kim-Newman, focuses on how a job description can make all the difference in attracting the right talent. Read on for more... Attracting talent begins with your job posting. It’s how your company makes a first impression ...
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The E.A.R.T.H Principle: How to Run an Enterprise Analytics Team with Less … and Stay Sane

By Sharon Flynn posted 06-11-2021
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Recently, I worked for a large financial institution on the client side, leading a global enterprise-wide team that served 12 million customers and more than 46,000 employees. My team focused on digital analytics; there were other teams actively using ...
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An Open Letter to Executives About Digital Analytics

By Adam Greco posted 05-25-2021
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The following is a reprint of a blog post I published on the Search Discovery blog that seemed to resonate with a lot of folks... Dear Executives, My name is Adam Greco, and I have been in the digital analytics field for quite a while. ...
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Guest Blog: Workforce Trends to Watch in 2021

By Erin Lambertz posted 05-14-2021
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Tammy Kim-Newman joins us again in this month's Guest Blogger Series for DAA with research from the University of Waterloo on 2021 workforce trends. The world of work is an ever-changing space and the changes that come with tackling global pandemic ...
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"What Your Boss Thinks You Already Know About Data Privacy" - Key takeaways from the DAA Digital Backyard Series

By Shasnika DeMel posted 05-11-2021
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Data privacy is on digital analyst’s minds these days. With the many privacy laws and changes to tracking consumer data, there’s a lot of literature to understand and a lot of changes to navigate through. In the DAA Digital Backyard Series “ What Your ...
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Digital Data Center of Excellence, Anyone?

By Tom Arundel posted 04-13-2021
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In this post,   Tom Arundel   discusses five key areas of focus for a Digital Data Center of Excellence, and why one is key to scaling digital transformation. Tom is currently Global Learning & Insights leader at Quantum Metric, and formerly ...
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Volunteering with the DAA’s Women in Analytics mentoring program

By Lara Fisher posted 04-08-2021
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Volunteering with the DAA’s Women in Analytics mentoring program has been an eye-opening experience for me. The DAA states “ The purpose of this program is to assist mentees in improving upon professional skills over time with an end goal of advancing ...
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Guest Blog: Five Tips for Supporting the Next Generation of Female Leaders

By Sharon Flynn posted 03-29-2021
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I am delighted to bring you a guest blog from Tammy Kim-Newman is Business Developer and Tech Talent Specialist at the University of Waterloo, Canada’s #1 university for computer science, engineering and mathematics (Macleans 2021 University Rankings). ...
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Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

By Jeff Burkhardt posted 03-15-2021
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I was recently asked to interview a candidate who we are entertaining to join first PRO . Business continues to be brisk, so adding talent to make us better and drive productivity is a sensible concept, though interviewing for new talent anytime is ...
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