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![How to use analytics to understand and improve your email marketing [SPEED Email Series, Part 5] | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/BxRdDOOj7Y8io3p_Woeu2fBmLys6hX2ydzAVDqN3660=)
Tracking the results of your emails is a powerful way to gather valuable insights. Learn how to use analytics to understand and improve your email marketing
Farid Mheir's insight:
A 5 part guide on how to best manage email newsletters and mailing lists.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Email remains the most important communication channel to your clients and potential customers. This guide is very useful because it is simple and focusses on the basics, which unfortunately not every company applies. 
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Open Source Biometric Recognition A communal biometrics framework supporting the development of open algorithms and reproducible evaluations.
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Face recognition, gender detection, and age estimation are all now possible with this open source suite of software code. This should pave the way for wide adoption in all kind of applications, from retail store security cameras to hand held camera devices such as the narrative camera or others. I can think of so many use cases - both good and bad - where this technology can be deployed. Just a question of time...
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/parashoot-smart-wearable-video-mini-hd-camera http://www.getperfectmemory.com/
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Magento, SAP hybris, IBM WebSphere Commerce, Oracle Commerce (ATG) e-commerce platform comparison including typical project, license, support, infrastructure m…
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This guy is obviously biased towards Magento but it is nice to see different solutions compared as is the case here. In particular, look at slide #9. Thank you Francois Medioni for the reference.
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What marketers need to know about the evolving marketing technology landscape. Review the infographic now to learn more about martech.
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Been tracking this technology landscape since its beginning in 2011 when it only referenced 150 companies. This remains one of the best tool to make CMOs and other executives understand that marketing is technology enabled and a leader in digital transformation in the organization.
Da Silva's curator insight,
April 27, 2016 3:39 AM
What about Database Publishing Systems and Catalog automation in the 2016 Marketing Technology Landscape?
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An interactive visualization of the marketing universe. With input from over 100 CMOs Growthverse represents a taxonomy of the marketing technology ecosystem.
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Amazing reference of over 800 companies that deliver solutions for marketing automation and other marketing activities.
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![What’s in a Content Marketing Stack? [WCM, DAM, CMP, etc] via @Gartner | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/sRk6XhjrQoz9Q-fdRNFhRnkes5yE2Br8B0LnubnjJ88=)
Marketers who have started to do content marketing typically find themselves doing topic research via myriad analytics tools, managing editorial calendars in excel, handling workflow with writers and creative via email, publishing content via separate blogs and websites and promoting it with existing, but usually disconnected marketing automation and social media tools (that’s if they aren’t doing any paid promotion). At scale, this breaks down. Via Marteq
Farid Mheir's insight:
A great blog post that sheds light into the murky waters of marketing tools and solutions to manage content. Specifically, it speaks of web content management (WCM), digital asset management (DAM) and contentn marketing point (CMP) tools, amongst others.
Ties in great with the recent posts on marketing tools universe here http://sco.lt/6ir5EH and here http://sco.lt/8dD2WH
Marteq's curator insight,
April 22, 2016 1:37 PM
Which is a subset of the marketing stack.
marketingIO: One Source for All Marketing Technology Challenges. See our solutions.
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The Technology Radar is our thoughts on emerging technology trends in the industry. Read the latest here.
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I pride myself on being "techno friendly" and futuristic, an early adopter of all things technological and digital. Then I receive the ToughtWorks technology radar and realize I know none of the solutions on the radar. Then I say: time to get to work and learn about these things. And you should too.
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Marketing automation field has been expoding in past few years, testimony to the fact that marketing groups have been pushing the digital transformation the most in organizations. This report provides some useful hints as to the tools that now equip the marketing teams - or should in the near future.
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It's the project management system you need to visualize your work. Here are 8 of the best ways you can implement kanban into your team, along with 8 great apps to pick from.
Farid Mheir's insight:
A great review of the Kanban system and the tools that you can use to manage projects using kanban. I use trello all the time and it is great.
Jennifer Kading's curator insight,
January 8, 2016 2:34 PM
this truly sounds like the app that has been missing from my tool kit all along - somehow my work flow never seemed to fit into any of the others quite the way I needed it to. I found myself adjusting my work styles to fit the application...that never works! Must take a closer look at this.
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Crossing the Chasm (Amazon) is a classic book from the 1990s (wikipedia) that introduced the concept of a product lifecycle to the masses. It helped explain to many startups why their products were hits early on but failed miserably as they never gained a large audience. Must read book. Chiefmartec uses the lifecycle to explain the current market of marketing technology products.
Marteq's curator insight,
November 29, 2015 9:32 PM
Far more when you click through. My only complaint is that the X-axis is not proportionally represented.
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List of sites with Two Factor Auth support which includes SMS, email, phone calls, hardware, and software.
Farid Mheir's insight:
2 factor authentication (2FA) is an essential tool to keep your personal information secure. 2FA sends an SMS when you login to a website from a new computer - or again every 30 days or so - to validate that you are indeed who you say you are - not some hacker in Russia.
This service provides a very complete list of websites that support multi-factor authentication - and highlights those that do not. Looking at the list, it is for example very surprising to see so few banks supporting 2FA but that LinkedIn protects your resume more diligently!
Moreover because it is open source, new sites are addedd consantly, so the list should remain fresh.
Great tool to use as a checklist to ensure you have turned on at least SMS verification in your key accounts.
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This sortable chart lets you compare dozens of tools for functionality, skill level and more.
Farid Mheir's insight:
A great reference for anyone looking for tools to analyze, chart and visualize data, from the very simple to the highly complex.
Oksana Borukh's curator insight,
October 22, 2015 9:15 AM
30+ free tools for data visualization and analysisş 
Farid Mheir's comment,
November 1, 2015 10:12 AM
The "many eyes" solution by IBM was taken offline earlier this year.
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You must listen to the video to get an idea how big this solution is. Matt Keeter is amazing and this software CAD program is just amazing I find. Antimony solution just blew my mind. Read through the article then download the program and play with it: pure magic! WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT? Antimony takes a different approach to software programming, exposing the logic very close to the end user to allow them to see what happens and control it in a very simple intuitive way.
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Matt Keeter is amazing and this software CAD program is just amazing I find. Antimony solution just blew my mind. Read through the article then download the program and play with it: pure magic! WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT? Antimony takes a different approach to software programming, exposing the logic very close to the end user to allow them to see what happens and control it in a very simple intuitive way.
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It’s been four years since Stewart Butterfield last sent an email to a work colleague. His team long ago replaced email with a chat app that plugged in to all their favorite services like Twitter,...
Farid Mheir's insight:
slack is an incredible app for internal team collaboration that is indeed killing email. Just now getting on board so really cannot comment in detail but appears to be useful and very "Web+mobile" friendly. Phenomenal growth, the company is fastest to be valued at 1B$ (in nly 1.25 year - see http://read.bi/1SbJLuP) has 750k active users and adding 1M$ in revenue every 11 days.
Farid Mheir's comment,
May 23, 2015 10:09 AM
thank you @Russell R. Roberts, Jr., @Heather Teegarden for the rescoops and kind words. Please feel free to recommend my topic!
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A list of alternatives for Visio for Mac users. There isn't one that matches Visio 100%. But options in this list could meet some of the requirements if not all. Lastly, there is always the option of running Visio/Win on VMware Fusion or Parallels. | ConceptDraw Pro | @CSO_ConceptDraw, Creately | @creately, LucidChart | @LucidChart, @SimpleDiagrams | Create simple diagrams in a snap!, OmniGraffle | @omnigroup, draw.io @Diagramly, VSD Viewer, Balsamiq | @balsamiq, DIA, and Gliffy | @Gliffy
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This tool shows how far you can travel in 10 minutes in ghostly splotches and tendrils.
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Great mashup (no one says that anymore I know) of maps + traffic data + travel algorithms.
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A global software company focused on software design and delivery. We provide professional services and products and leading thought on Agile and Continuous Delivery.
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This remains a must read to keep on top of new development tools, platforms, techniques and frameworks.
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Business Intelligence Tools Ranked by Features & Functions in 2014 BI Gleansight Customer Think The 2014 Business Intelligence Report from Gleanster Research showcases business intelligence tools ranked by four criteria: ease of use, ease of...
Via Yves Mulkers
Farid Mheir's insight:
A bit dated but still a great reference for anyone looking for a good overview of the BI tools out there. Compared to Gartner, this list appears way more complete and trustworthy.
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A detailed review of the best landing page generators to help you decide which one is right for you and your business. Learn everything you need to know.
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Detailed comparison of landing page development tools, including one from Montreal, unbounce. Members of the mtl+ecommerce group get 50% off!
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Excerpt from review article by TechCrunch:
Via Giuseppe Mauriello
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For my technology friends, you may know of this already, if you don't I find it interesting.
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A blog post that describes tools and solutions to help become paper free.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT
There is no need for paper anymore and solutions like this show that it is possible to go paper free quite easilly especially given the ubiquitous availability of mobile phones and cloud internet access. I have been doing much of these steps since 2010 when I acquired a fujitsu scansnap paper scanner and started to systematically scan every document I receive via snail mail.