Those of you who have been following the Web Analytics Forum at Yahoo! groups will no doubt be as excited about this announcement as I am: I am delighted to let you know that Paul Holstein, co-founder, Vice President, and COO at CableOrganizer.com will be taking over for Daniel Shields here at the Web Analytics Demystified weblogs.  Paul has been a long-time contributor to the Forum, both in the conversation and behind the scenes, and despite the fact that he once told me that “web analytics was just a hobby” he has demonstrated his expertise time and time again.

What happened to Daniel?  Dan has taken a big step forward in his career, co-founding Wicked Business Sciences with Paul, and Nicolas Dubus and getting into the consulting game.  Given the list of service offerings these guys have already I have little doubt they’ll be hugely successful.

I will keep Dan’s posts up for the time being but they’ll be in Paul’s blog (although their original URLs should work just fine.)

Paul has indicated that his style will be short-and-sweet, touching on a relevant subjects as they creep up in his business, in the Forum, and at great conferences like the X Change (where you can meet Paul in person!)

Paul’s “welcome, Demystified” post is up and I would encourage you to check it out if for no other reason to add Paul’s blog to your RSS feeds.  (I have already added Paul to the “All Web Analytics Demystified Weblogs” super-feed, just in case you want to subscribe to our writing en masse … http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllWebAnalyticsDemystifiedBlogs)