Now I am on the way to resurrect some of the things. The following is the list of items I want to post about/work on and this blog will be the place for realizing them. In no particular order let me dive in to what all I want to do

• Complete doing the NerdDinner ASP.NET tutorial.
• Port the NerdDinner application to web2py (py2dinner already work in progress)
• Expand py2dinner to work on Google App Engine.
• Expand py2dinner to learn hosting SAAS applications on Google App Engine.
• Write a series of posts (similar to the one here)
• Write a series of posts on cookies
• Write on how cookies are used to tracking user behavior
• Write on how third party cookies help tracking user behavior across sites
• Write on using flash for user tracking
• Write on using html5 and associated technologies (websql) etc for user tracking
• Develop an application for managing a list of users, sending them mails etc.(primarily to achieve requirements at iitkgpblr chapter)
• develop a small application for user behavior tracking.

The above list will keep expanding. The goal I set for myself for the rest of the year is to churn out a minimum of one post per week. I will keep updating the list as and when I get some ideas. Enough time has been spent lazing around, not let’s get to some action.

Myself, Jaisri Chety and Sarvanann were there a little before 5:00 Pm. We were slated to start off at 5:30 Pm. Slowly people started coming in and by 5:30 we were about 20. We waited for a few minutes for more folks to turn up before we kick started.

The presenters for the evening were Seby and Jaisri. We did a quick poll on the level of understanding of Web Analytics in the audience, and most were directly or indirectly working in the domain, hence we decided to go ahead with Seby’s presentation on “Advanced Segmentation” using Google Analytics. The idea was to cater to even audience with basic understanding of the subject in the next presentation by Jaisri. Seby discussed how we can use the features of Custom Reporting and Advanced Segmentation from Google Analytics to better segment the data and get actionalble insights.

After a very interactive session on “Advanced Segmentation”, we had a round of introductions from all those present(by now we were about 35 in number). We started off with presentation on “Social Media Analytics” by Jaisri after the introdcutions. This was essentially about the role Social Media plays in a business and how important it is to analyze the effects. The tool she was referring to here was Radian6. Saravanann from Metainfotech(Webtrends solution provider) talked about a the release of  Webtrends 8.0 and some of the new features it has.

Later we went to discuss the frequency at which we should hold these WAW meets. Though many in the audience were for monthly meets, keeping the practicalties of organizing in mind, we settled for quarterly meet to start with. So get ready for the next meet in November (tentatively, 2nd week).Keeping the Bangalore traffic in mind, we decided to have this meet on a friday evening (Web Analytics Weekend). Also we have an excellent offer from Saravanann, he offered to conduct a full day free training on Webtrends 8.0. This training will be on day following the above meet. If you are interested please contact Me or Jaisri.

We ended the day with a good feeling of time well spent, after snacks and networking. I am sure those of you who could not make it will make it the next time.

I have an anonymous survey to gather feedback from all those who attended this event. If you were present at the event, please take 2 minutes (it might be even less than that) to answer the survey. This will help us to make these meets better. In case you have some points not covered in the survey, please feel free to mail me.

Data Speak is the theme of the blog, and you have not seen much happen over here in the one month of existence of this blog. I will take this event to kick start my blogging efforts over here. So keep coming in to see what to make out of all the data you have.

For now check the details of the event at the WAW[Web Analytics Wednesday] Bangalore site.  You might also want to check out Web analytics Demystified for the origins of WAW.

If you have anything to do with Web Analytics and you are in Bangalore, this is the event for you. Drop by and we will have some great discussions.

For the uninitiated, Web Analytics deals with the analysis of data measured on a web site for the purpose of understanding and optimizing the sites usage. At this juncture Web Analytics is also closely associated with Web Measurement, though I am sure in future once the technlogy behind measurement is matured, these both will be two distinct but dependent fields.

I leave you here, with some food for thought. Complete the series 1,1,2,3,5,8,?.