Understanding Data Integration
January 9th, 2008 at 01:23am
Understanding Data Integration
Wednesday, January 30th, 1:00 - 2:30 EST.
Is your data stored in too many places? Are you struggling to create a list of your constituents? You’re not alone. In this session, we’ll talk through the options for integrating data from multiple systems, including manual integration via spreadsheets, purchasing integrated systems, building programmatic feeds, and more. We’ll discuss possibilities in integrating the software you already have, and what features you should look when choosing new software to prevent integration woes.
How many people visit your Web site every day? What are visitors doing when they get there? Which features are most popular? We’ll talk through the tools and strategies you can use to get the answers to these questions. Through demos of free tools such as AWStats and Google Analytics, we’ll look at what these tools can tell you about your site, and what the statistics mean. We’ll close with a discussion of when more advanced statisics packages - such as ClickTracks or WebTrends- might be useful. 
If you need a way to update your website, but you’re not sure where to start, this is the session for you. We’ll talk about what content management systems are, and look at various affordable options for updating your website text and images, including using What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get software like DreamWeaver and Contribute, website-in-a-box tools like Homesite, blog tools like WordPress, open source tools like Joomla and Drupal, and more.