Browsing articles from "September, 2009"
Sep
30
2009

The Back of the Napkin

The Back of the Napkin has been on my to buy/read list for while now.  The idea is that problems can be solved (and ideas can be sold) with simple pictures to illustrate. The author just won a contest for best presentation.  Here’s the presentation and it happens to explain the healthcare problems that are all the rage today with amazing simplicity and clarity. So if you’re like me, and you didn’t know anything about [...]

Sep
24
2009

Twitter: A Primer on the Madness

Call me a sellout (I’m ashamed already), but I have it on pretty good authority that in order to be a good blogger, you need to be on Twitter. Now that I’m taking this blogging thing a little more seriously (on the Omniture Blog), I went ahead and made an account. The straight facts? It is a pretty good way to spread the word to a crowd of people with a certain interest, though it [...]

Sep
14
2009

CD Lookup Fail!

My wife bought me a bunch of Foo Fighter’s CDs for my birthday.  When I get CD’s I promptly rip them to mp3 and throw them in a box, never to see them again, but for some reason I still would rather have the actual CD instead of buying it on iTunes.  Anyway, this one threw me for a loop when I popped it in: Obviously it’s not a Michael Bolton CD, so I chose [...]

Sep
9
2009

Corporate Blogging

And the last piece that I was waiting for has fallen into place.  I’m now officially the newest member of the Omniture Blogging team.  Find my analytics related posts at http://blogs.omniture.com/author/brobison/.

Sep
4
2009

Manager of Market Insight

Or Moving on Part 2 I was waiting for one last thing to become public before I wrote this post, but it’s not happening as fast as I thought, so I’ll leave it out and catch you up later. One of the things I discovered about myself is that I am a designer at heart.  I love digging into a particular issue, understanding it from all angles, and brainstorming a solution.  When it comes to [...]