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We just posted a Web Analytics Wednesday event in San Francisco in November that promises to be the event of the year in the Bay Area. Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Causata, Coremetrics/IBM, iJento, and ObservePoint we will be able to host several hundred folks — which is great news because our ACCELERATE 2011 event is the next day.

We will post location details soon but go to  the Web Analytics Wednesday site and sign up today if you want to be sure to be able to join us.

Sign up for Web Analytics Wednesday on Thursday, November 17th in San Francisco now!

Also, if you have a minute, go have a look at our sponsor’s web sites. With the exception of Coremetrics we believe each of our sponsors are companies you may not know much about but we think are exciting and have something unique to offer the web analytics community.

• Causata
• Coremetrics/IBM
• iJento
• ObservePoint

On behalf of Adam and John, we all hope to see you in San Francisco this November!

We are incredibly excited to announce that registrations are open for our newest community initiative designed for digital measurement, analysis, and optimization professionals, ACCELERATE!

The first event will be held this year in San Francisco on Friday, November 18th at the Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF, and thanks to generous support from Tealeaf, OpinionLab, and Ensighten, ACCELERATE 2011 is completely free.

Our agenda is still being finalized, but we will have thought- and practice-leaders from amazing companies including Nike, Symantec, AutoDesk, Salesforce.com and, of course, Web Analytics Demystified. Also, since we recognize that some of the brightest talent in our field works for solution providers, we’ve invited a few practice leaders from the vendor community to present as well, thusly ensuring great content across the board.

The format at ACCELERATE is completely new, and we believe our “Ten Tips in Twenty Minutes” style will create the maximum number of insights possible for attendees of all backgrounds. What’s more, we have a dozen ten open slots for new speakers in our “Super Accelerator” session to showcase up-and-coming talent — and we’re having those folks compete for a $500 gift card from Best Buy based on audience votes.

Did I mention that ACCELERATE 2011 is completely free?

If you’re interested in joining us we encourage you to visit the ACCELERATE 2011 mini-site sign-up register today. Space is limited to the first hundred or so folks who sign up and we’ve already had registrations from New York, Boston, Seattle, Portland, Columbus, and San Francisco.

Go to the ACCELERATE 2011 site and register to attend right now!

EVENT DETAILS:

Location: Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco
Date: Friday, November 18, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Registration: Open now, limited to the first hundred or so folks who sign up

If you have any questions about ACCELERATE 2011 please leave comments below or email us directly.

Just a quick note from my vacation getwaway to call reader’s attention to two great jobs at The Home Depot and to let Atlanta-area readers know that I will be in town next week for a special “Web Analytics Wednesday on Tuesday” put together by Keystone Solutions Rudi Shumpert and HD’s own Wesley “Big Wes” Hall. The event will be at the Gordon Birsch in Buckhead and I’m hoping that Rudi and Wes will allow an informal Q&A session about some of the great things that are happening in our industry lately.

>>> Register to join us at Web Analytics Wednesday, Atlanta, on Tuesday, July 19th

Regarding the jobs, our client at Home Depot is aggressively putting together a team of digital measurement specialists to help lead the company’s digital efforts forward. We have been helping the company with their digital measurement strategy now for about six months and the effort is really beginning to pay off in terms of their use of technology, the talent they are getting in the door, and the value web analytics brings to the company both online and off.

Have a look at the Senior Analyst and Manager, Web Analytics jobs on our web site and come see me next week at Web Analytics Wednesday if you’d like a personal introduction or have any questions:

>>> Job description, Senior Web Business Analyst at The Home Depot

>>> Job description, Web Analytics Manager at The Home Depot

I hope you are all having a great, relaxing summer and look forward to seeing you at a conference, event, or Web Analytics Wednesday sometime in the near future.

Unfortunately Web Analytics Demystified has been threatened with costly litigation over our Demystified Days event series. Out of respect for our current partners, our sponsors, and the entire community we have decided to postpone theses events for the time being.  We are certainly disappointed by this situation, but we remain committed to:

• Providing high quality web analytics education and web analytics networking opportunities;
• Expanding our support for Web Analytics Wednesday;
• Redoubling our Analysis Exchange efforts.

Now that Analysis Exchange has real momentum, our hope was to take this effort to the next level and begin to make real investments in the nonprofits that honor our efforts to train future web analysts through their participation. Our goal for this coming Fall was to donate $10,000 each to six different nonprofit participants in the Analysis Exchange in San Francisco, Atlanta, and Boston. Sadly we have been prevented from making those donations.

Such is life.

At Web Analytics Demystified we truly do believe in the community — be it the Analysis Exchange, the free web analytics documentation and content we all produce, John’s participation in the Web Analytics Association, my founding of the Web Analytics Forums in 2004, or Adam’s contribution to the award-winning Beyond Web Analytics podcast series. While we regroup and refocus our efforts expect to see us supporting Emetrics, the Web Analytics Association, Analysis Exchange, Web Analytics Wednesday, Beyond Web Analytics, and any other event or organization that is sincere in their investment in the web analytics community.

UPDATE MAY 6, 2011: Under threat of litigation we have decided to postpone Demystified Days for the time being. You can read more about this decision here.

I am incredibly excited to let all of you know about something that Adam, John, and our friends at Keystone Solutions will be doing this coming September that builds on our long-standing commitment to local web analytics communities and our more recent efforts to support nonprofits around the world … something we are calling “Demystified Days!”

Check out the mini-site for Demystified Days right now!

For years we have been helping local web analytics communities around the globe connect with each other as part of Web Analytics Wednesday, and by every measure, Web Analytics Wednesday works. Thanks to current and past sponsors — great companies like I.Q. Workforce, Coremetrics (an IBM Company), SiteSpect, and hundreds of other companies who have hosted regional events — Web Analytics Demystified has brokered more personal introductions (and served more beers) than any other organization or group in our industry.

This past year we have been trying to leverage our connections in the industry to do something truly good and solve bigger problems. The result was, of course, the Analysis Exchange — the world’s only effort to provide free analytics support to nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations — which thanks to the efforts of great people like Wendy Greco, Emer Kirrane, Jason Thompson and our mentors and students has changed how people learn how to tells stories with data.

Now we are taking it to the next level, one city at a time.

Starting September 12th in San Francisco we will be bringing a day long educational and networking event to cities across the globe.  The format will be one you are all familiar with — great presentations in the morning and great conversations in the afternoon, of course followed by drinks and networking at Web Analytics Wednesdays in the evening.

We could easily do these events for free … but we aren’t going to. Instead we are going to find awesome sponsors to help us offset costs and ask everyone who participates to buy a $99 ticket to the event. Then, at the end of the day, we are going to add up all of the revenues, subtract out all of the costs, and donate every penny that is left to two local charities decided on by the event participants.

Our hope is to be able to donate a total of $50,000 to six charities in the United States. You can help us achieve that goal by doing three very easy things:

1. Helping us spread the word about Demystified Days within your social network. We have created a short URL http://bit.ly/demystifieddays and you can tag tweets about these events with #demystifieddays.
2. Joining us in San Francisco, Atlanta, and Boston. We are finalizing venues right now and will post ticket purchasing information in the next few weeks so watch for that!
3. Email us and let us know you are interested in Demystified Days. The mini-site has a form at the bottom that will let you indicate your interest. Fill out the form and we will keep you in the loop!

On behalf of the teams at Web Analytics Demystified and Keystone Solutions we sincerely hope you are excited about what Demystified Days can become. We welcome your questions in comments or directly via email.

Help spread the word!