International Marketing and Output Data Base Conference (IMAODBC) September 14 to 18, 2009

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The conference is being organised by Statistics Canada. The organising committee may be contacted by email at imaodbc-organising@statcan.gc.ca

How Twitter can make history by Clay Shirky

About this talk
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
About Clay Shirky
Shirky, a prescient voice on the Internet’s effects, argues [...]

Tips and Tools for Expanding Keywords Lists

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
You can use Google Analytics to find the best keywords and shift budget to the highest converting keywords, but what if you’re looking to expand your keyword lists? In this post, we are going to look at how you can leverage other free Google tools to optimize your marketing campaigns beyond [...]

RIA for Statistics? And win a Chocolate Bar

Rich Internet Applications RIA bring desktop feelings to the browser: full interactivity, no more waiting until pages are reloaded, changing from online to offline and back without losing data and much more. Java, Flash and Silverlight based applications with multimedia elements count among these RIAs.
The comunity of official statistics has a long, strong  and very active [...]

Comparing websites – a playground or more than that?

There are several tools that offer interactive comparisons between websites. It’s quite amusing playing with such tools. I did it with websitegrader and got results like these for some statistics websites … and for blogstats:

In general I think these comparisons give a first hint and are just interesting but should never be used or understood as [...]

Statistically Speaking – ABS Blog for Librarians

Marketing Statistics is a lot about good segmenting the public to reach. Librarians are a very important group as they are working as a mediator. The Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS has created a blog for this group:

” A blog for librarians and other like-minded information professionals featuring the latest information, news, tips [...]

The way to go?

A new report of Bivings Group shows to what extent the 100 biggest US newspapers are using Web 2.0 technologies. And it is quite astonishing.
 Some figures:

96% of these newspapers have RSS feeds
92% offer videos
95% have blogs and 93% invite people to comment the blog posts
49% offer podcasts
33% invite readers to comment articles.

 How far can and [...]

Swivel and Official Statistics: Things go on

Some days ago OECD has loaded some indicators from the OECD Factbook to Swivel. And Swivel is developing new services in order to improve data presentation.
It will be very interesting to see how swivelers will be working with these data and what we can learn from these activities.
Have a look in the people section and  [...]

Swivel and Official Statistics

I recently made a test in Swivel. I put a very small part of the international data on the Swiss Statistics Website into a graphic in Swivel and made the source available with a link to the Swiss website. Uploading the data (on divorces in several countries) was very easy. The graphic looked very simple [...]

Communicating via podcasts

Podcasts are very popular. You just download the file and put it on your mp3 player or on your ipod. And then you can listen to it wherever you want.
Podcasts are not yet very popular in the field of dissemination of statistics. Or may I be wrong?
Two examples (just the top of the iceberg?)
OECD promotes [...]