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Published on 10/3/2012
Categories: Digital Strategies
Google Tag Manager: stop sinking into scripts
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Here it is! The nightmare of managing all your Google scripts/tags is over.
Do you have to spread over thousands of pages your AdWords conversion tags, Analytics goal tags, campaign tracking scripts, etc.?
You know what I'm talking about: injecting code, conditional JavaScript, custom tags in many different pages is really error prone, but here comes the solution from Google: Google Tag Manager.

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Published on 7/17/2012
Categories: Web Analytics
Internal campaigns with Google Analytics and .NET AdRotator
An internal campaign banner is one that points to the same site it is contained in, for example you may advertise for one of your products while the user is looking at another one.
For banners hosted in external sites the best way to collect statistics is to use UTM (Urchen Tracking Module) query parameters: Google Analytics can automatically collect and group this type of data.
On the other side, the UTM approach is not good for internal campaigns, because when mixed with external ones, it compromises the analysis: try to imagine what happens if a user clicks on an external banner, then in an internal one and finally she makes a conversion. Which is the cause and which is the effect?

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Photographer: Igor De Ruitz
Published on 7/3/2012
Categories: Web & Apps
TechEd Europe 2012: Windows 8 report from Amsterdam

Many news from the Microsoft world at TechEd Europe 2012, concerning the products to come: Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.
There were interesting sessions about the vision of the future by Microsoft, regarding server products and in particular about clouding by Windows Azure.
My main interests were on another subject, that is Windows 8, the new Metro user interface and the business opportunities on the client side. I arrived in Amsterdam with many doubts, many misunderstandings about these new technologies; now, 4 days later, I have a more clear vision.

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Photographer: Igor De Ruitz
Published on 6/6/2012
Categories: Visual Communication
Case study: the Magic Books Collection

The effect I'm going to present you is the junction point of two artistic passions that I have cultivated for years, maintaining them intentionally separated, until I have thought that they were both arrived to the maturity necessary in order to benefit equally one of the other: I’m referring to the magic passion and to the theatre one.

I think important to have waited for the right moment before trying to find the point of contact between the two worlds, although for both fundamentally is a matter of exhibitions with the artist on a stage and the spectators seated in the stalls, unfortunately it is unknown why the education of the two guys follows two completely different paths.

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