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Tips on supporting peers

The post offers mentorship tips in the digital tech field, emphasizing empathy, acknowledging uncertainties, being present, and the long-term benefits of supporting peers, enhancing learning and networking.

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Posted in General Advice, Sitecore

Tips on public speaking

This post offers specific tips for speaking at digital and tech events. It emphasizes originality, setting clear objectives, storytelling, slide deck creation, simplicity, and the importance of practice.

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Posted in General Advice, Sitecore

Tips on writing blog posts

This post provides valuable tips for writing meaningful blogs in the digital and tech world, emphasizing originality, clear objectives, writing in real-time, minimal polishing, and effective promotion.

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Posted in General Advice, Sitecore

Leveraging Google Analytics to measure effectively

Three years ago I ran a MeasureCamp discussion session entitled “Track everything, measure what matters“; a concept that was the norm in 2016. Back then, the challenge with this concept, as it still is today, is the issue of “time”

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Posted in General Advice, Insights, Measurement Model, Understanding Google Analytics

My builders are agile

Kitchen in mid build

Analogies are always good when demonstrating the benefits of a system, a tool or a process. People, often those on the fringes, need to see or hear why there is a benefit to said system/ tool/ process as a single

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Posted in General Advice, User Experience

My CMS has analytics tools – Discuss (From Measurecamp London)

MeasureCamp logo

So below is some notes from a session I ran at Measurecamp London. I wanted to firstly open up the discussion of having an alternative/ addition to Google Analytics. Google Analytics (or similar eg Adobe) CMS analytics Support. So one

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Posted in General Advice, Uncategorized

Scaling the experience

Scaling the experience slidedeck new version

Over the last 6 months I  have been presenting and discussing the digital evolution of LJMU Digital Services at the Sitecore Symposium, several Sitecore user groups and the eMetrics conference. Part of the journey, explained in the slide below, shows how digital

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Posted in General Advice, Insights

Whilst i’ve been away

So I realise I haven’t been as active on my blog as usual, but for good reason. Since taking up my role as Digital Service lead, i’ve been a bit busy on all fronts and whilst I have been establishing

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Google Tag Manager debug console short cuts

GTM debug consule

As I use them so much, thought i’d document these simple keyboard shortcuts whilst using the GTM debug console cmd/ command Holding this down whilst clicking on a link will open a link in a new window. In turn this will

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Posted in General Advice, Google Tag Manager

Things I learnt about #data this week

LJMU Framework - always learning always sharing

Its been a long week, this week; but an exciting one as I have focused mainly on data. (The new day job for good reasons means less time on data… and thus blog posts.) However I thought i’d share some

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Posted in General Advice, Insights, Measurement Model
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