Web Analytics Wednesday (WAW) sounded a cool free web analytics networking event, so I decided to go, and I was not disappointed. It was free, there were more than 100 people interested in web analytics (about 180 rsvp-ed yes), and there was very nice wine thanks to the sponsors. Unfortunately, the event became so popular that the presentations (TeaLeaf, Coremetrics, Teradata, ForeSee) were suppressed by the social noise of networking, but knowledge was exchanged anyway.
If you are anywhere in the world and want to meet web analysts, check out the site, maybe there’s a Web Analytics Wednesday coming – worth joining. There have been a couple of European Web Analytics Wednesdays too (UK, France, Denmark, etc.), so it is really growing global.
I met Eric T. Peterson, the author of Web Analytics Demystified, June Dershewitz, who is behind the whole WAW idea, Bob Page, the Yahoo guy to whom the Index Tools team reports (IndexTools was founded in Budapest, Hungary), I made a short interview with John Dawes, the VP of Product Management at TeaLeaf (Customer Experience software compatible with major web analytics tools), I talked to Lenore Weiss, whose parents came from Hungary, so we immediately had something to talk about besides analytics, web trends and tools. You can read Lenore’s summary of Web Analytics Wed here. Mike from Yahoo web analytics (yep, I couldn’t help but ask him how he survived three series of job reductions), etc.
Here’s a pic of the big team of web analysts and X Change conference participants. Hope to host a Web Analytics Wednesday in Budapest Hungary soon.
Web Analytics Wednesday - San Francisco 2009