Is Google Watching You? New Plugin Will Let You Know [APPS] Another rad browser plugin called Google Alarm hit the Internets this week, which alerts you every time your personal info is sent to Google's servers. How? Via notifications, a running tally of dangerous sites and, naturally, a super annoying, vuvuzela-like alarm. After seeing this new plugin — which works with both Firefox and Chrome — on F.A.T., I contacted the developer who made it: Jamie Wilkinson, who also created Know Your Meme and Mag.ma. According to Wilkinson, "Google makes great products and gives them all away for free, which has made them into a ubiquitous and omniscient force on the Internet. So how does the plugin work? We've been seeing a ton of interesting plugins like this lately — Shaved Bieber, BP Oil, Ex-blocker (which, disclosure, I helped come up with). What do you think of this plugin? [img credit: twicepix]
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Does Your NonProfit Website Need a Privacy Policy? If your organization collects information from the users of your website — and the odds are that it does, if little more than the IP addresses scooped up by your site statistics package — have you posted a site privacy policy? Should you do so? In the service of those web users who are increasingly concerned with issues of data protection, a clear and simple privacy policy posted on your organization's website can go a long way to building trust. Who Cares about Protecting Personal Data? A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project — "Digital Footprints: Online Identity Management and Search in the Age of Transparency" (December 2007) — reports that a staggering 60% of internet users are "not worried" about how much of their personal information is available online, and feel no need to limit it. This isn't the first research to identify a "disconnect" between what web users say is important and the way we actually behave when on the internet.
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Privacy Policy Preview – Google Privacy Center There are many different ways you can use our services – to search for and share information, to communicate with other people or to create new content. When you share information with us, for example by creating a Google Account, we can make those services even better – to show you more relevant search results and ads, to help you connect with people or to make sharing with others quicker and easier. As you use our services, we want you to be clear how we’re using information and the ways in which you can protect your privacy. Our Privacy Policy explains: What information we collect and why we collect it. We’ve tried to keep it as simple as possible, but if you’re not familiar with terms like cookies, IP addresses, pixel tags and browsers, then read about these key terms first. Information we collect We collect information in the following ways: Information you give us. How we use information we collect Transparency and choice People have different privacy concerns. Information you share
Using Google Analytics for Improving Library Website Content and Design: A Case Study, Wei Fang Introduction As more and more digital content goes online, libraries today are fundamentally different than they were as recently as five years ago. Websites have become an essential component of library service, and designing these websites involves both technical and administrative decision-making. Objectives The goal of this case study was to useGoogle Analytics to improve the design and content of the Rutgers-Newark Law Library's main website to better fit our visitors' needs. To track the usage of the library main website To track visitors' behaviors To determine the efficiency of the website's menu system To make suggestions for improving user experiences To establish the most effective way for redesigning the website Methodology There are different methods for analyzing website traffic and usability. Some schools have inserted counters on their home pages to monitor traffic volume coming to the site (Dyrli, 2006, p. 72). Google Analytics Background RNLL's Use of Google Analytics
Increase your productivity with the Google Analytics API (Cross-posted from the Google Analytics Blog) Back in Episode 10 of Web Analytics TV, (32:00), Lisa C from Melbourne asked how to pull a trending report from Google Analytics for the top organic search landing pages. This was such a great question, that we wrote 2 articles and released sample code describing how you can automate retrieving this data from Google Analytics Data Export API. Here is a graph plotting traffic to the top 100 landing pages for organic search for all of June for www.googlestore.com. Let’s Analyze: This is the typical trend graph you can find across the Google Analytics web interface. Now let’s try again: Here is a stacked area graph of each of the top 100 landing pages for organic search. Let’s Analyze: Awesome right! Lisa’s graph, above, presents significantly simplified insights. Typical actions you, or Lisa (!) Exporting the Data from the web interface: Anybody can pull this data from the Google Analytics web interface. Have fun!