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Google Analytics vs. TubeMogul: How to Best Track Your Video’s Performance, A Conversation

by Travis Chandler

Any product or web site owner can attest that going deeper into analytics and search engine optimization can be a rewarding experience. Today we will take a look at various methods of measuring the performance of video on your web site.

By learning more about how visitors are viewing your video content, you will have a better of understanding of how to modify your content strategy and improve your site’s user experience.

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Seven Tips for Better Mind Mapping Sessions

by Tim Frick

Here are seven ways to get the most from your collaborative brainstorming sessions.

Creative brainstorming, mind mapping, ideation—whatever you want to call the process of generating creative ideas to serve the larger purpose of a project or goal—is a critical part of any good process. At Mightybytes, we are always refining our approach and trying new things when we create new web applications and sites for our clients. Here are some ideas that came from planning a recent session for a client using this technique.

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Lunch-N-Learn 9: Zucchini with Tomatoes and Chorizo and Agile Story Mapping

by Cesar Torres

Week after week, the Mightybytes Lunch-n-Learn series brings in a guest speaker from our team of designers and developers to share his or her knowledge. This week, however, we went outside our own ranks for the Learning portion of our event.

Up until now, our Lunch-n-Learn professors have always been with us in the room, physically, sharing food and taking questions. This week, we went the virtual route, recruiting the services of User Interface Engineering and their webinar “Story Mapping for UX Practitioners: Tying UX and Agile together.”

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Lessons Learned from Social Dev Camp

by Bill Dagiantis

"You can be the lead dog and get the gorgeous arctic view......or you can see the other's ass”* and five other lessons I learned at Social Dev Camp.

I spent this past (and gorgeous) weekend indoors at DePaul University attending Social Dev Camp in order to learn more about the social web. The event offered two tracks and below you will find the nuggets I pulled together from four of the “Business” track’s presentations. 

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Lunch-N-Learn 8: Mixed Vegetable & Bacon Medley and How to Become a Gmail Ninja

by Jeff Livorsi

Mightybytes’ eighth Lunch-n-Learn grouped together a ton of vegetables & bacon with fantastic organization tools for organizing your workflow. Bill put together a mixed vegetable & bacon medley with a Cauliflower and Blue Cheese Puree, while Tai proceeded with his presentation on how to become a Gmail ninja.

As always, we purchased almost all of the ingredients from the Andersonville Farmer’s Market: green beans, dragon tongue beans, red onions, squash, a cauliflower head, and the most important ingredient ever - bacon.

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