My intention to join your little group, learn about WAA and appropriately "advocate" the use and acceptance of clinical web analytics.  Perhaps I am in the wrong group.  Sorry for you time.

----- Original Message ----
From: "Curtis Tinsley, PhD, MD(H), MHA, FACHE" <dr_curtis_tinsley@...>
To: waa_advocacy@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 2, 2007 9:47:42 AM
Subject: Re: [waa_advocacy] Re: Web 2.0 and PVs, User Experince

Hey Jay,
 
Dr. Newbie here!  Well after days and weeks of 90 degree learning curves, I have produced my first web analytic report for a client hospital or should I say Integrated Delivery Network of (9) hospitals. You have to understand that I am transferring my Knowledge Base of Clinical Pathology to Cyber Pathology in eHealth.
 
The client wants to know if there is an industry standard for rate of growth for a web portal.  We at MEDSEEK term every Internet access point we deploy as a portal - more specifically I refer to them all as clinical portals within the hospital environment. The measurement( s) from WebTrends that I leveraged was NEW versus RETURNED visitors to the new enterprise portals. - right at six months old. (don't know what to do about the 29.76% of visitors who do not accept cookies)  Good, bad or indifferent the report looked "bitchen" and the information presented was a reasonable surrogate for "growth rate" of a new web site. Comparison reporting will follow using some of the our large client hospital networks.
 
My intended mission as a member of WAA and specifically for joining this Advocacy Group is to be educated daily, slip into your learning loop and try to establish a novel section specifically for eHealth, i.e., the deployment and integration of Internet technologies in clinical processes a.k.a. hospital web sites (inter & intra).
 
Sorry for the long wind here but this is my first Group encounter and I'm loaded with questions just keep the coffee pouring.
 
-Curt-
 
Curtis J. Tinsley, M.D.(H), Ph.D., M.H.A., CPHQ, FACHE (use credentials only once as introduction to Group)
MEDSEEK, eHealth Officer
"Taking the Art of Medicine to the Level of Science"

----- Original Message ----
From: Jay McCarthy <jmccarthy@websidest ory.com>
To: waa_advocacy@ yahoogroups. com
Cc: seth.romanow@ comcast.net; cdalessa@organic. com; richard.foley@ sas.com; andrea@netsetgo. com; Shubhra.Srivastava@ ichotelsgroup. com; civy@charter. net; greg.drew@webtrends .com; bryane@futurenowinc .com
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:54:42 AM
Subject: RE: [waa_advocacy] Re: Web 2.0 and PVs, User Experince

This is a hot topic and a working group led by Eric Peterson is
looking into it. There is a diversity of media and medium in the Web
2.0 sphere, which makes it more complex to measure than if it was only
pure HTML viewed in a browser.

There seems to be a consensus that "page view" is not the good unit of
measure anymore... I sugested, based on post I had seen a long time
ago, "meaningful user event" but the question remains: how to measure it!

Check out http://www.webanaly ticsdemystified. com/web2group/ index.asp
on Eric Peteron's site for more info about the working group.

S.Hamel
http://shamel. blogspot. com

--- In waa_advocacy@ yahoogroups. com, "mokatia" <mokatia@...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I'm here in San Francisco attending the web 2.0 conference and i was
> wondering how can we accomodate and accurtly measure the user experince
> in a web 2.0 world.
>
> mostafa
>