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Richard Moore's Home Page.
If it is neither useful nor beautiful, it doesn't belong in your life.
An interesting philosophy, but I am sure there are exceptions.
I have begun working on the page again. This page is still under construction. I have modified the page so that the links will work for Netscape users. The Bullhead City, AZ Area Scanner Frequencies list is on the Radio page, which can be accessed from the useful page. The beautiful page links to a page of poetry I wrote, most of them were for school, but a couple were written for their own sake. The Brady Bill of Rights can be accessed from the Gun Page.
Future plans include lots of links to websites containing artworks such as the Web Museum. There is a new Artwork of the Month, it can be accessed from the art page. The MIDI file of the Month has also been changed. The Gun Page is up now, check it out. I also have a version of this site optimized for Mobile Phones and Pocket PCs. Click here to access it or scan this QR Code.
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Saturday, August 30, 2008
Now that The Feeder is finally back from Austin and has stopped playing with Long Horns.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
The Feeder has been in the Spin Room for a few days
Blame The Feeder's client, but she's been in the "Spin Room" for a few days. Thanks Forbes for pointing it out.. we wondered where she was.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The Feeder's Life, according to Wordle
We added it to our blog (bottom right) but it's kind of sad. Laptop is in the middle.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Silly Feeder
Left the cord that sends our multimedia content to the World Wide Web at her desk at work. We know where her priorities lie ... and are plotting evil things against the nasty black laptop. We want more white laptop time!


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|Panucatt Devices Re-ARM board Bottom View
|New and Old: Re-ARM/Ramps (top right), Arduino Mega2560 (bottom left)
|Re-ARM/Ramps with mounting bracket (on the left)
|Re-ARM/Ramps mostly installed
|Spliced line on EXT2 cable, it's the edge opposite the red reference line
|5V pin for EXT2 splice
And with that plugged in, I used the Micro Kossel to print some mounting brackets from Thingiverse for the display and then used some M3x20mm screws to install them.
|Full Graphic Controller with Mounting brackets waiting for installation
|Using zip-ties for cable management, helps keep things nice and tidy
|Bracket fully installed using M4x0.8mm cap screw and M4 hex nut
With that installed, all that's left is to remount the print-bed and deal with the software side of things. I'd originally used 3 M3x20 screws to hold the print-bed down, but these made it very vulnerable to warping and difficult to level after a reinstall, essentially requiring recalibration every time I needed to access the electronics. After running across thing: 1982435, I decided to make my own version with an extra slot for my heat shielding. Files are here.
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|Test fitting heat shield
|Finalizing exact positioning, note the M3x20mm screw and bolt for holding glass
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Tracking Campaigns in Omniture Site Catalyst December 24, 2009Posted by Joe Kamenar in campaign tracking, web analytics.
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In a previous post, I discussed how to track marketing campaigns using Google Analytics. In this post, I will explain how to do it using Omniture Site Catalyst. Unlike Google, where you create a campaign tracking string based on five parameters and append it to your URL link, with Omniture, you simply create a campaign ID and append the ID to the URL. As an example, the URL http://mysite.com/landing_page.htm?cid=cl_phl_oct could represent a posting to the Philadelphia section of Craigslist in October. You could create a string of campaign codes and visually see each one in your Site Catalyst report, simply by setting the "s.campaigns" variable to the campaign ID. When you look t the report, you can add metrics such as visits, leads, orders, revenue, or other key performance indicators (KPIs).
The drawback to this is that if you have multiple types of campaigns, with multiple parameters, you would need to memorize each and every one to make sense of the report. Instead of doing this, you can instead "classify" the campaign variable. What this does is to associate meta data with it so that you can segment, filter, group or sort all your data to gain insight to what really works.
To do this, you need to go into the Admin function of Site Catalyst and then select the variable you want to classify. Typically, this would be the campaign variable. You can then set up classification categories based on your needs. You can set up classifications similar to what you would do with Google Analytics (source, medium, name, keyword, content), or you can be as specific as your business needs dictate. Omniture has a couple of excellent blog posts that show you how to set up classifications. One is specifically about campaign tracking, and the other discusses how to classify your campaigns using a tool called the "SiteCatalyst Attribute Importing and Naming Tool", or SAINT. Using SAINT, you create a template in Excel that lists all of your campaign tracking codes and what they mean, as far as your classification list. This list needs to match the list you set up in the Admin console. Once you upload your template, you can then run reports that let you drill down to any of your campaign classifications, and see how well each aspect of your campaign performed.
To have all this make sense and provide meaningful and actionable data, you need to first determine your campaign goals, then create KPIs that can show management if these goals are being met. Your campaigns need to be identified and a tracking spreadsheet template created as per the SAINT requirements. All of your marketing URLs then need to be tagged with the unique tracking codes you have created. If you are doing email campaigns, you need to make sure that your campaign codes do not conflict with any tracking code that your email vendor uses. Fortunately, Omniture does provide integration capabilities with leading email marketing platforms.
One of Edgewater's strengths is in providing your business with a complete web analytics roadmap, including looking at where you are now, determining where you need to be, and showing you how to get there. Your roadmap would include aspects such as identifying marketing opportunities, creating a classification template, building a set of KPIs and reports, developing tagging specifications, creating a test plan, and then analyzing your data to determine how to better optimize your web marketing efforts. Regardless of the analytics tool you use, Edgewater can show you how to use it better to take your web analytics to the next level.
Advanced Web Analytics Using Google Analytics December 15, 2009Posted by Joe Kamenar in web analytics.
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In the past, Google Analytics was seen as simply a quick "DIY" analytics tool that gave some useful reports. All you did was just add some code to each page, include a JavaScript file on your site, and you were finished. The tool costs nothing to use as far as license fees, and the learning curve was simple. However, no "real company" would use Google Analytics (GA), as it did not provide any real insight that would let management make any data-based decisions. Most mid to large size companies would use enterprise-level tools, such as Omniture's Site Catalyst, WebTrends, CoreMetrics, or other subscription-based tools. However, the cost of using these tools can add up to some serious coin, making it hard to justify an ROI on the results you would get.
In the past year, GA has narrowed the gap in functionality between its older versions and paid services like Omniture and WebTrends. Now, more and more larger internet retailers and service providers are using Google Analytics, including Garmin.com, RitzCamera.com, FatBrainToys.com, several BCBS websites, UnitedRentals.com and many more. So, what kind of enterprise-level features does Google Analytics now provide that have caused companies to take a second look? In this article, I will show you some of the features that you can now get with Google Analytics.
Multiple Profiles
Within GA, you can set up multiple profiles for an account, and apply specific filtering to each profile to create specific views of visitor behavior. For example, you can have a profile that is only for paid search traffic, or for events, or for segments of the site that are for specific departments. It is recommended that you keep one unfiltered profile, to retain all non-filtered data, as once you filter the data, you can't go back to the raw data. Specific filters can be done to create profiles that are for content groups, paid search, internal traffic, and so on. Within the unfiltered profile, advanced segmenting can be performed on historical data to drill down on specific types of visits or visitor behavior.
Conversion Funnels
A conversion funnel is simply the desired path you want a visitor to take to become either a customer, a lead, a registration, or whatever other goal you have in mind. It is a list of pages that represent the start of the path to the end. Within each stage, you can see what percent of visitors made it to the next step, and what percentage left the "funnel". In the past, GA limited you to just 4 goal conversion funnels across your site. Now, you can have up to 5 goals in each of up to 4 profiles, for a total of 20 goals to analyze. Conversion funnels can help you pinpoint where your site is not delivering, as far as meeting your company goals.
Event Tracking
GA can now do event tracking, similar to SiteCatalyst. It is done a bit differently, but you can assign an event to any activity broken down to a category, action, label and value to any site interaction. An event can be used to track how videos and Flash objects are used on your site. You can see how many times an item is viewed, how far they get through it, and if your desired message is being viewed. Using events, you can see how specific actions impact conversions on your site. On a per-visit basis, a total of about 500 page views and event calls can be sent to GA by a visitor. Once you have these events captured, you can then segment on these events to look at things like conversion rate. For example, you can tag a "Get Quote" button, and then see what percent of those who clicked this button converted. If you have a retail site, you can tag a "shipping cost" link, and then see what percentage of those who go to this link make the purchase. When used properly, events can let you capture more than just page views and visits. It can truly let you see how visitors are using your site. Google is looking at creating event-based goal conversion funnels as well as page-based funnels. With an event-based funnel, you can track visitor actions to see how they get to your end goal. Just by using the event tracking properly on a site, you can now get more granular insight into visitor behavior.
There is no limit to the number of events as they are not assigned to a particular variable as in Omniture.. The total number of calls to GA on a per-visit basis is about 500. Also, with the event tracking, it gives you a total count of each item, and a unique, per-visit count.
As an example, suppose you run a truck rental site. You want to track specific events. The event tag looks like this:
_trackEvent (category, action, optional_label, optional_value)
Thinking along the lines of rental activities, you can set up the tagging like this:
- Category: Itinerary, Pick-Up Location, Drop-Off Location, Contact Info, Trucks and Options, Quote and Payment, Review
- Action: Get Quote, Search Pickup Locations, Search Dropoff Locations, Select Pickup Location, Select Dropoff Location, Add to Quote, Change Quote, Enter Payment Info
The label and value are optional. For the label field, if you are tracking Flash videos, you would do something like this:
- Category – video
- Action – press play (or reached a certain percentage of the file, or any other embedded action)
- Label – [title of video]
- Value – time to load, perceived dollar value, quality points, etc…)
When you think about the event method, you can use the optional label field to store something about the visitor as well. If you were to store a unique ID for the visitor, or segment type (see below), you can then do a query on the label field to see what actions were taken by a particular visitor or segment.
Segmenting is a powerful tool that lets you see how specific audiences act on your site. We often talk about analytics in terms of averages – average time on site, average pages per visit, average revenue per sale, and so on, but in reality, there is no "average" visitor. They can be segmented into specific groups, and the behavior of each group analyzed to gain insight into how they can be better served. Segments can be based on visitor type (new vs. return), visit method (direct, paid search, organic search, referral), key words (branded, unbranded), and even a custom defined segment (more on that later). Within each segment, you can apply filtering to extract visits that meet you desired criteria. Filtering an include queries like matches exactly, does not match exactly, contains, does not contain, starts with, ends with, equals, greater than, less than, and others.
GA also lets you set up a custom segment variable, and then set it as you wish. Suppose you have a health insurance site that caters to various audiences, such as non-registered users, subscribers, brokers, employers, providers (doctors and hospitals), and employees. Depending on how they identify themselves as in logging in, which type of login they use, and so on, you can segment these individuals into their respective groups. You can then see how users in the particular segments behave on your site, and to see if your site is meeting the desired goals.
You can also do your conversion analysis or other analysis based on the values stored in each segment. The user defined segment cookie lasts two years, and can be overwritten on subsequent visits. The biggest problem that I see with this variable is that it is read at the beginning of the session, and any changes that are made during the visit are not used until the visitor later returns to the site. Thus, if someone comes to the site an anonymous, then later registers, any activity will be attributed to the anonymous segment. Only when the visitor returns does this change to "logged in" or "member". Thus, the next time the visitor returns, he or she is tagged as a "member" or "logged in", even if they do not log in on the next visit. Thus, while having this user-defined segment can be useful, it can also give misleading segment information.
Google is planning on expanding the number of user-defined variables shortly. Right now, if you want to store multiple types of data, you would create a string that can be parsed or joined in JavaScript, then store the entire string in the user-variable cookie. To access the data, in the profile you would then create a custom segment that extracts out the portion of the string that contains the section of interest. You can then correlate that with other items in the string to create a more narrow segment. I have seen some JavaScript code available that creates mini-functions that either add an item to the string or remove an item from the string.
Essentially, you can store anything in this variable, including a login ID. Google, of course, prohibits storing any personally identifiable information, and this includes things like an email address, SSN, full name, drivers license number, address, phone number, credit card number, etc…
Google now gives you 5 custom variables that you can use to do segmenting and analysis. Within each variable, you can store data that is either permanent, session-based or page based. With each variable, you can set a name-value pair that lets you create a segment that can be visitor-based, visit-based (expires after 30 minutes or when a browser closes or visitor exits the site), or page-based, such as defining content groups for each page. This new feature give you much more power to create reports that have meaning.
Traffic Sources
One of the most misleading stats I see in web analytics is in the organic search area. Often, the top search terms are the website's URL. If you know the URL, why search for it? The answer is in the sneaky way that browsers' home pages are loaded. If you have Internet Explorer and your default start-up page is MSN.com, the curser drops right into the search field. On FireFox, often the default load page is the Google page. Instead of moving the curser to the URL bar, many users simply type the name of the site they wish to go to in the search box, then they click on the top result, which is the site's home page. If the top result is also a "paid search" link, and the visitor click on it, the search engine makes money, as do the browser folks. Thus, the organic or paid search results can get skewed.
To keep your stats in line, GA lets you change the traffic source from "search engine" to "direct" or "referral site" to "direct" by adding some lines of code to the GA code that goes on your pages. Thus, those who come to your site by entering the URL in the search field will not be classified as search visits.
Custom Reports
GA also lets you create custom reports, where you can select your dimensions and drag it to the report, then select which metrics you want to show for that dimension. With the dimension section, you can add sub-dimensions to the list, such as "Keywords -> Search Engines -> etc…". You can then add a series of metrics to the report, letting you drill-down on each dimension to get more refined data. This feature is seen in the paid analytics tools, and lets an experienced analyst create multiple views of visitor behavior.
Search Filtering
Within searches, such as keywords, instead of getting a massive list, you can apply filtering, to only look at keywords or other items (like page views) based on a metric range. You can "nest" conditions to include or exclude specific terms or metrics to generate a more refined search.
Motion Charts
A new feature titled "Motion Charts" lets you create a 4-dimension view of specific metrics, such as keywords. It lets you assign x and y axis values, then show additional metrics in the form of the size and color of a dot. You can place the chart in motion to show how the performance of any keyword changed over time. You can see the dots move up and down or left and right across your grid to see changes in two of the dimensions, along with seeing the size and the color of the dots change to see changes in the other two dimensions.
Internal Site Search
Internal site search is a very useful tool that lets you see how easy it is for visitors to find what they want on your site. It is important to see what visitors do when they find or do not find what they are looking for. Internal site search can also be tracked to show additional metrics, such as average pages per visit, time on the site and conversions for those who find site results and those who do not.
The API tool lets you export out a complete report, based on specific queries that you make. The GA API tool seems fairly robust, as you can send URL based queries via the API and receive an XML file in return. There are a variety of third-party tools that have already been developed using the API that integrate GA data with Excel data and display it within PowerPoint, desktop applications, email marketing platforms, and mobile platforms.
GA also provides analytics alerts that notify you when specific thresholds change, similar to the alerts that the paid tools provide. If your conversion rate drops below a specific threshold, or the number of orders you get exceeds a threshold, you can be notified right away, instead of waiting until you or your analyst does the report.
Google Analytics collect two types of e-commerce data: transaction data and item data. Transaction data describes the overall transaction (transaction ID, total sale, tax, shipping, etc.) while item data describes the items purchased in the transaction (sku, description, category, etc.). Here's a complete list of the data:
Transaction Data
- Transaction ID: your internal transaction ID [required]
- Affiliate or store name
- Total
- Tax
- Shipping
- City
- State or region
- Country
Item Data
- Transaction ID: same as in transaction data [required]
- Product name
- Product category or product variation
- Unit price [required]
- Quantity [required]
When the e-commerce reports are enabled, you get additional reports, such as number of visits until purchase and the time to purchase. The Visits to Purchase (VTP) report shows how many visits a visitor generated before they converted. The Time to Purchase (TTP) report shows how many days it took from the first visit to make a purchase. If the TTP is "0", it means it was on the same day, but not necessarily on the first visit.
For lead-generation sites that are NOT e-commerce sites, the e-commerce code can still be used to apply segmenting information and value information to leads or registrations that are submitted. By doing this, the e-commerce functionality can be enabled, letting the user see the VTP and TTP for a visitor who submits a lead or completes a registration form.
Third Party Integration
While Google supports its own A/B test tool, Google Website Optimizer, it does not integrate with third party tools from other vendors. Such tools can provide more advanced testing and behavioral targeting tools, email clients, multi-platform PPC management and so on.
Google Analytics can provide small to mid-size companies with the tools they need to create an actionable analytics plan and increase the value of the website. However, just like using paid tools such as Omniture, WebTrends or other more advanced packages, the tool is only as good as the mechanic who uses it. Companies like Edgewater Technology can help you develop a road map that looks at your company's goals and creates an analytics strategy that helps you meet these goals. Edgewater can help you define key business metrics, create profiles and reports, define tagging specifications, tag your site, set up site optimization using the Google Website Optimizer, and train your team how to use these reports and continue to enhance your site.
With all the new tagging capabilities within Google Analytics, there is a fair amount of analytics enhancement can be done for those who are using this free tool. It can be a lot more involved than just placing the GA code on each page and the ga.js file on your site. By creating the right tagging specifications based on business strategy, Edgewater can help you get a better look at how visitors are using your site, and how you can better serve them.
To learn more, visit http://Edgewater.com or contact Joe Kamenar, Manager of Web Analytics, at 215-480-2737.
Ten Questions to Ask About Your Web Analytics Tool December 3, 2009Posted by Joe Kamenar in web analytics.
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Web analytics can provide significant insight into how your website is doing as far as contributing revenue and leads to your company. Often times, a company will install a web analytics tool and simply use the "out-of-the-box" reports, including visits, visitors, unique visitors, top pages, average time on site, and so on. When used properly, a web analytics tool can provide you with the data you need to make decisions regarding web strategy, content, layout, usability, applications, paid media, referral partners, and personalization. If the goal of your website is to generate sales or leads, the bottom line is conversion of visitors to customers. To get more out of your investment in the tool and personnel who are using it and to increase your conversions, here is a list of ten questions that your analytics tool can answer.
1. Where are your visitors dropping off?
If the goal of your website is to generate revenue, either directly from sales of goods or services on the site, or by generating leads that are followed up off-line, it is important to know how effective your site is in getting to that goal. One of the more useful tools that your analytics tool provides is a conversion funnel. A "conversion" is loosely defined as the desired outcome of a visit. This can be a purchase, reservation, subscription, registration or a form completion to request more information or be contacted for an offline sale. Depending on your tool, a conversion funnel can be called a "fallout report" or "scenario analysis". It is set up by defining a list of URLs that represent the desired steps that a visitor should take to get to the goal. In some cases, you need to tag each page ahead of time. In others, you set up the pages in your analytics tool.
Once you have your funnel set up, you can see the percentage of visitors who either make it to the next step or who "drop off" or "fall out" of the conversion process. At first glance, you can see which pages become "bottlenecks", where you lose a large percentage of visitors. You can then study the pages to better understand why visitors do not go any further. With a proper A/B or multivariate testing program, you can make changes in these pages and then test their effectiveness in increasing conversions, and thus, revenue from your site.
The second item to analyze is where visitors go if they leave the conversion funnel. Here some of the questions you need to answer:
- What percent of visitors just exit the site?
- What percent go to the home page?
- What percent look for product reviews, privacy information, refund policies, FAQs or other content?
- Do they get distracted by having too many non-conversion links on a key conversion page?
- Do they have the opportunity to go back and change their mind instead of completing the purchase?
- Do they read some content then come back to the funnel?
- What percent use onsite search?
By analyzing the paths that visitors take from your conversion funnel, you can better understand your visitors' behavior and thus make improvements to your site with the goal of increasing conversions.
2. Is onsite search driving conversions, or driving visitors away?
Onsite search is a powerful tool if your site has significant content or product pages. If they can't find what they are looking for on your site, you may end up losing a customer. One of the first things that your onsite search report will tell you is what is most important to those who visit your site. If you don't have pages that adequately cover these key search terms, then create them. Not only will this improve your visitors' site experience, it can also increase your site's ranking in organic search for these terms, increasing your site traffic.
If your site has onsite search, it is also important to determine how relevant the search results are. If the search results return pages that are not relevant, then you will tend to lose visitors. You can do your initial testing without using your analytics tool. Pick some in-depth site pages and identify key terms and phrases. Enter these in your site search, and look to see where the desired pages rank. If they can not be found easily, your search tool may not be doing its job properly. Your analytics tool can help by looking at pathing reports from your search results pages plus other metrics. Here are some of the questions you need to answer:
- What percent of visitors are using onsite search?
- What percent of visitors are leaving the site?
- What percent of visitors are getting into your conversion funnel?
- What percent of visitors who do not find any results leave the site?
- What percent of searches do not return any result?
- What are the search terms that lead to no result? What is the conversion ratio of those who use onsite search?
- What are the top search terms and their corresponding conversion rates?
By answering these questions and making adjustments to your site, you can increase the usability of your site and thus increase conversions.
3. Are visitors seeing your key messages?
Content managers for websites often spend significant resources to create their brand message or "Why Us" message to differentiate your company from its competition. The question is, are visitors seeing it and how can you improve its visibility? Key message pages can be important in creating your company's unique selling position and convincing visitors to do business with your company. In a typical analytics environment, a "Top Pages" report will be generated that shows that the key message pages received "x" visits and "y" page views, and that they were the number "z" page in ranking. While this top-level information is nice to have, you can go deeper and provide more insight into how these pages are used.
If your site has multiple key message pages or pages that focus on different topics, you can group similar pages into defined content groups. For example, a branded drug website may want to know how well their site does in the following areas:
- Information about the disease and complications
- How the featured drug provides benefits
- Clinical studies and other physician-related information
- Call to action (talk to your doctor, request more information)
- Engagement (user tools, calculators, worksheets)
Instead of providing reports on all these page visits and views, you can simplify this by tagging these pages to place them in different content groups. You can then provide high-level metrics or KPIs that show what percent of visitors take part in each of these content areas. This will be more meaningful to those who manage the site's content. There are several ways to tag pages, including hard-coding each content group onto each page, using JavaScript to identify the group based on the URL, using a content management system to place tags automatically, or even by filtering the content with your analytics tool.
Along with tagging content groups, your team can also identify "quality pages", or pages that they deem important to either the site, brand or company, then tag these pages as a "quality page". You can then create a metric that shows how many quality page views per visit your visitors see, and what percent of total page views are quality pages. If these pages are not resonating with your visitors, you can then look to identify reasons why. Some of these reasons can include:
- Links are positioned "below the fold", especially on laptops (link is below the initial visible screen area).
- Links are hard to find
- Links are embedded in Flash navigation that is not user-friendly
By tagging and testing link placement, you can improve the visibility of the links to the key message pages.
4. Is your site's content impacting conversion?
Once you have a handle on managing your site's content, you can then analyze the impact that content has on conversion. What you want to see is if those who view key content pages convert at a higher rate than those who don't. You can look at visitors who visit key content before entering the funnel process, or those who exit the funnel to view key content, then return to the funnel. By providing these metrics to the content managers, you can show what impact or "lift" their content has on conversions and revenue.
Along with measuring the conversion rates, you can also look at path analysis to see what visitors do who view content. Some of the questions you may want to answer include:
- Do they tend to simply browse the site without initiating a purchase or other conversion?
- Do they read the key pages and leave the site?
- Do they engage in tools or other site applications?
- Do they come back to the site at a late time to initiate a purchase?
Since not every site is designed to sell products or services, and not all initial visits to ecommerce sites end in a purchase, you can use these insights to create other metrics and KPIs that measure how effective content is to the overall performance of your site.
5. What value are you getting from your referral partners?
If your site gets traffic from referral links, either ones your company has cultivated or "organic" links that were done outside of your efforts, you can provide reports that show both the overall percentage of traffic that you get from these sites, plus the revenue associated with these visits. Revenue can be shown as an aggregate from a particular source, or broken down as revenue or leads per visit from each source. Thus, if you are using any "pay-to-play" referral sources, meaning you pay a fee for each click, you can determine how effective that referral source is in generating revenue or leads.
Since most analytic tools provide the ability to show top referral sources, you need to simply add the desired success metric to your reports. If you are paying for clicks from particular sources, you can compare the data that is reported from your analytic tool to the data that your vendor is providing to identify any discrepancies and prevent being overcharged. It is a way to keep these vendors "honest" in what you are being charged. While there will always be a difference between clicks from a source to counted visits to your site, this difference needs to be agreed upon and monitored. Tracking visits to the site and revenue per visit can help fine-tune what your company is spending to deliver this traffic and increase profitability.
6. Are you generating sales but losing money?
The previous topic can be extended to cover all of your pay-per-click (PPC) vendors, and even cost-per-impression (CPI) vendors. PPC marketing is typically paid search, while banners are the main source of CPI marketing. While you may be getting sales or leads from these marketing channels, are they profitable sales? To answer this question, you need to either have to know your cost per visit and conversion rate, or have a tool that give you a metric titled "ROAS", which stands for "return on advertising spend". With either of these sets of data, you also need to know the average gross profit margin of the products or services you are selling. If you are measuring return on CPI spend, you also need to know the click-thru-rate (CTR) of these banners. Your cost-per-click (CPC) would be the CPI divided by the CTR.
If all you have is your cost per click (CPC) data for paid search, you need to be able to segment your data based on keywords, as different keywords have a different CPC. More general terms will have a higher CPC, while long-tail keywords will typically have a lower CPC. When setting up your tagging, you need to identify the start point of the conversion ratio as the paid search or banner landing page. Keep in mind that there will be a discrepancy between the reported clicks that your CPC vendor is telling you and the reported visits that your analytic tool is telling you. Since the reported visits are most often lower than the reported clicks, your true cost-per-visit (CPV) will be higher than your CPC.
Once you have your CPV and revenue per visit (RPV), you can immediately determine if you are in the red. If your CPV is higher than your RPV, your site may be losing money. I say "may be", as it is possible that visitors return later to the site from a bookmark and convert. You will need more advanced analytics tracking to determine this. Even if your CPV is less than your RPV, you can not tell if the spend is effective until you look at the gross profit margin (sale price less cost of goods sold) on a percentage basis. For example, if you are selling $1,000 worth of software where you get $200 per sale, you can afford a higher cost per visit than if you were selling $1,000 computers and getting $100 per sale.
One you know your average profit margin per sale, and your conversion rate of visits to sales, you can determine the maximum you can spend per visit to attract a customer. Knowing this, you can fine-tune your PPC bid management down to specific keywords to optimize your company's revenue.
7. How is Social Media bringing you business?
Sites like FaceBook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, along with blogs and Ezine article sites can bring traffic and revenue to your site. With these sites, you can create newsworthy events, videos, widgets, tweets, articles and other "buzz". Sometimes, videos or widgets become viral in nature, meaning they propagate to thousands of web users with no effort on your part. Unlike regular referral links which may come directly to your site's home page with no tagging, links from these sites can be tagged with a campaign ID, and linked to targeted landing pages. By creating unique campaign ID tags for each source and embedding these links in the targeted media source, you can measure traffic to your site from each source, and track the visits into your conversion funnel. From this, you can determine which sites are worth investing in, as far as content or increasing friends or followers, as you can measure revenue or leads from each site by adding the appropriate metrics to your analytic report. You can also measure the results of specific campaigns on each site, with targeted messages that direct visitors to specific landing pages.
8. How can segmentation help you understand visitor behavior?
One of the most common terms in web analytics is "average". We have average pages per visit, average time on site, average revenue per order, and so on. While averages are very useful for trending purposes and comparing metrics from month-to-month or year-over-year, you must keep in mind that there is no such thing as an "average" visitor. Each visitor to your site is unique, and to better understand visitor behavior and how to optimize your site, you need to segment visitors based on something in common.
Some of the most common segments are as follows:
- New vs. return visitor
- Paid search vs. organic search
- Direct visit vs. referrer link
- Google vs. Bing vs. Yahoo!
- Geographic location
- Returning customer vs. returning visitor
- Paid search vs. banner vs. email campaigns
- Online vs. offline marketing
- Weekday vs. weekend visits
One you have the appropriate forms of segmentation, you can then look at metrics such as average time on site, average pages per visit, average searches per visit, average revenue or leads per visit and so on for each segment. By analyzing specific group behavior, you can create more targeted action plans to better talk to each type of visitor. By using cookies to store segment categories on each visitor's browser, you can later read these cookies to enable more personalized or targeted content, with the goal of increasing conversions.
9. Are you measuring interactions with Flash objects on your site?
Developing Flash objects can often require significant resources in terms of man hours and budget. With proper planning and tagging, you can track the usage of these assets and determine if they bring value to your site and business.
At the most basic level, you can insert tags in the Flash source to count the number of times an object is "touched". You can also go further by tagging interactive buttons on the object and then links to other site pages. If the Flash object is playing a video or an animation, you can insert tags at key stages in the progress. These can be at percentage points, such as 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% viewed, or when specific topics are reached. Depending on your analytics tool, you can create "events" at these measurement points, pseudo pages, or conversion variables. You may be able to correlate visits to particular points in the Flash to orders or leads. You can also see how much of your message was viewed by those who engaged with the application.
If your Flash application has a "Call to action", you can measure what percent of those who engage with the app take the next step to reach the action page. By tagging this as the start of a conversion funnel, you can determine the conversion rate of those who take the desired action, compared to your overall site traffic. By developing metrics around your Flash objects, you will be able to provide data on the effectiveness of the application, and whether to refine it or ditch it.
10. Is your tagging telling you how visitors use your site?
Many sites have tools such as onsite search, and some have third-party tools such as click-to-talk and click-to-chat. If these links are not tagged, your reporting can provide inaccurate or incomplete results. For example, if you have a reservation-based site, and on the payment page there is a click-to-talk or click-to-chat button, it is important to tag these links as pages. If not, your reporting may show that the "abandonment rate" is higher than it really is. If the visitor decides to click to speak with a representative and completes an order over the phone, or through a chat interface, your reporting will show that they simply exited the site. It would be more accurate to report that the visitor "visited" the chat or talk page instead.
It is also important to track where visitors are either clicking on click-to-chat or click-to-talk buttons along with using onsite search to better understand their behavior. If there is a high use of these services on particular pages, it may indicate a usability issue on your site, or missing information that is needed to continue. In the case of onsite search, if you can capture the search terms associated with each step in the conversion funnel process, you can gain some insight to where visitors may be lost or missing information they need to continue with their purchase, reservation, registration or other desired action. By looking at patterns, you can make adjustments to your site and reduce these distractions, increasing conversions.
By properly tagging these actions, you may also be able to look at pathing from these stages to see where visitors go after they do an onsite search or click to talk or chat. By understanding their behavior, you can make the needed improvements. You may also be able to measure what percent of these actions still lead to a conversion, and which ones do not.
In summary, by creating a more robust analytics platform, you can obtain data that provides insight into how every aspect of your site is doing in increasing conversions at a profit. From analyzing paid media to your landing pages, content, tools, applications, visitor segments, and so on, your overall web strategy will become more data-driven, more actionable, and more accountable.


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Our Leadership Team
The Senior Management Team at Alphington Grammar School are responsible for the day to day operations of the School, supporting the Principal to implement the Strategic Plan and providing strong leadership to ensure we are always cognisant of upholding the central value of "excellence".
Dr Vivianne Nikou – Principal
Qualifications: B.A., Dip.Ed; M.Ed Pol Admin, D.B.A; AMACEL; MACE; AFAIM
Vivianne is a passionate educator, who decided on this vocation after an inspiring experience with a teacher in the final year of her own schooling. The stimulus from this first year teacher in her own final year has provided Vivianne with the impetus to strive to be an inspiring and connected educator herself.
After time in a large independent school, with long held traditions, and time in the corporate world, Vivianne has relished the challenge of leading a smaller and much younger school. She fervently believes that as educators "none of us have the right to waste a day in the life of the children we have in front of us and every child should leave school having experienced success". She brought this same philosophy to Alphington Grammar School in 2013, and has ensured it permeates the community here.
Rowan Evans – Assistant Principal – Head of Secondary
Qualifications: B.A., Dip.Ed; M.Ed
Rowan has a passion for helping young people and supporting their learning. Education became his vocation after his own positive school experience and a desire to provide that for others. He is committed to making a difference by helping to provide a supportive learning community – ensuring that the students at AGS are able to not only succeed, but thrive. After a significant period in larger independent schools, Rowan joined AGS in 2014 and has welcomed the strong and vibrant community ethos that exists at Alphington Grammar School.
Tracey Nicholson – Assistant Principal – Head of Primary
Qualifications: Dip.Teach.Prim
Teaching is far more than just a job for Tracey, it is a vocation that she finds the best and most rewarding profession in the world. Her passion for primary education is evident in everything she does, and her philosophy that learning is a life long pursuit is central to all that she brings to the Primary Years at AGS. Tracey stays at Alphington because she loves the culture and believes it is a joy and privilege to see children grow and learn. She is now seeing the second generation of Alphington children come to complete their education with us.
Lukas Silver – Director of Teaching + Learning
Qualifications: B.A., Dip Ed, PGCE (School Leadership)
Lukas started his teaching career in inner-city London where he worked in schools with high levels of student poverty, deprivation and underachievement. It was there that he learnt that all children, despite their socio-economic challenges, their family situation or their level of prior education, crave to learn. He spent over a decade in London working as a senior consultant to improve teenage literacy and remove barriers to learning for all children. Lukas believes that the inclusive, nurturing environment at AGS is an amazing strength, a solid foundation to ensure that every child achieves their very best. He strongly feels that staff need to have very high expectations of every child so that their potential can be realised.
Rajen Chetty – Director of Innovation + Performance
Qualifications: B.Ed, Dip Ed (Jr & Sec), M.Ed.St
Rajen believes that teaching has given him a sense of service – his wish is to make a clear, tangible difference in the lives of others. He loves being a mentor and guide to his students. Rajen wants to make a difference by enabling each of his students to fully maximise their talents, imagination, skills and character and to see them become lifelong learners.
Rajen comes to us with vast experience of Independent schooling and a real passion for the application of learning technologies to the educational journey.
Manuel Pappos – Business Manager
Qualifications: B.Com, Dip Ed
There are not too many school Business Managers who also have a teaching background alongside their business background. Whilst Manuel was initially an "accidental" teacher, having won an Education Department Scholarship to earn his degree AND a Diploma of Education, he soon realised that teaching was the profession for him. Whilst he is no longer in the classroom, he fondly remembers his time in the classroom as among his happiest working days. As the AGS Business Manager, Manuel is able to combine his passion for education with his commitment to this community – having been here almost since day one.


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- 100g tub of edible sugar pearls / sugar balls
- 4mm in size
- Ideal for cake pops, cupcakes and cakes
- Use with the other sizes to create stunning effects
- Comes in a handy re-useable storage tub
Code: ED120
Model: PC-ED120Brand: Purple CupcakesColour: Gold
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Edible sugar balls. These are perfect for adding a finishing touch to your cake and cupcake decorating. Use with other pearl sizes for great effects!
Ingredients: Sugar, Wheat starch, Maltodextrin, Arabic gum, Colours (E171, E172, E100, E55, E102).
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Ball sizes may vary
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Metro magazine has released a gorgeous series of schlager-birds as advertising of their melosite. I don't have idea if it's scans right from magazine's issue but these pics looks like a pieces of schlager-art!
I hope you've recognized all very important birds of Melodifestivalen world, haven't you?
- Ярлыки: Melodifestivalen
- (19) Comments
19 коммент.:
- TK said...
I recognise them!
1) Carola
2) Eric Saade
3) Kikki Danielsson
4) Alexander Bard
5) Lena Philipsson
6) Roger Pontare
I love the artwork and the campaign idea itself is pretty cool. There are even TV ads with these birds.
- February 22, 2012 at 3:45 AM
- Damian said...
It's more complicated about Eric. Have you noticed "birdeen" in "Who's the birdeen of the year"? ;)
- February 22, 2012 at 3:55 AM
wake up Damian, the news are here!
- February 22, 2012 at 9:28 AM
- Damian said...
I never sleep. What sort of news?
- February 22, 2012 at 10:03 AM
on Schlaegerprofilerna, about Danny and Charlotte having the most expensive shows in ESC 2012.
- February 22, 2012 at 12:45 PM
- Damian said...
Thanks but that's what I told you about Charlotte yesterday :) That Danny prepares some great show was rumored quite long.
- February 22, 2012 at 1:00 PM
Now it was confirmed. But what I don't understand is: she said she is not aiming for Baku, but she invests so much money in it. The dress and now the show. For what??? And I think I'm gonna really like The Girl, after hearing the whole song!
- February 22, 2012 at 1:04 PM
- Damian said...
She's a schlager-artist and she needs very impressive Melodifestivalen comeback to warm up career for another 3-4 years. And when Charlotte's in da house she can't do anything that will look cheap. She's a perfectionist.
- February 22, 2012 at 1:08 PM
okey, tommorrow we will see images from the arena. Here is 23:14 and I'm going to bed.good evening!
- February 22, 2012 at 1:15 PM
Have you've heard Danny's crap? That guy from Schlagerprofilerna annoys me with....Dannyyyy and his pooor song. What do you think?
- February 23, 2012 at 11:28 AM
- Damian said...
Danny has really strong song and now it absolutely stands between him and Loreen in the final. Any other candidate seems impossible.
- February 23, 2012 at 11:36 AM
Are you gay tooo? Strong, not at all, it sounds much like Inna. ANyway, between him and Loreen, I want her. Last year your Alex came 16 with a better song, if Danny goes to Baku(which I don't think) he will be on 20 th position!
- February 23, 2012 at 11:51 AM
- Damian said...
If only gays can accept that Danny's song is one of two best songs of this year's competition then probably.
There are no stronger options. Or you've found any?
- February 23, 2012 at 11:55 AM
The problem is that the sooong is so poor. Anyway, is not our problem. The swedes will decide. But Charlotte for me is the winner of this semifinal whatever happens on Saturday night!
- February 23, 2012 at 11:57 AM
- Damian said...
You just don't like modern dance songs and it doesn't make them less perspective for Eurovision :)
But still you haven't answered. If you think Danny and Loreen are wrong to send to Baku, who can be right?
- February 23, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Damian, the problem is that these modern music is justtt tooo pooor for Eurovision. Last year Russia, Hungary and Croatia were outside top 15...and all had modern music. It seems that Europe doesn't like that kind of music in Eurovision. And on the other hand, Loreen's song contains more recorded track than live vocals. No human voice can belt out those notes, not even Loreen. In this case Charlotte stands out, even though she won't win. She doesn't even want too, so why bother. Dead by April I think is the wisest choice! Is quite strong even with live vocals! Anyway, on the forums everyone wants Loreen, people are disappointed about Danny's song. In Globen we will also have a jury, we will see what that is going to say!
- February 23, 2012 at 12:10 PM
- Damian said...
Hungary and Croatia were modern music like 15 years ago :)
Russia had not the best example of RedOne's stuff, it was modern but doesn't have anything common with both Amazing and Euphoria.
Loreen has 4 spots for backing singers in Baku and stil she can belt it out, you should just check her live performances on youtube. I can't say anything about Dead By April, rock can do really well at ESC and can stay in semifinals. But do you say Charlotte can be a better option than Danny and Loreen after she was just 12th in semifinal by televoting with Hero that was like 100 times stronger?
- February 23, 2012 at 12:25 PM
Here you are mistaken. Charlotte came 12 in semifinal because she was very skinny and had a really bad makeup, she looked like an alien. That's why people did vote for her. But Hero is great and no one denies that and "The Girl" is awesome too:D. I checked Lorren long time ago, I like "Sober". There are many contenders for victory this year, but I don't think that Danny will be the winner!
- February 23, 2012 at 12:33 PM
- Damian said...
We can blame "Hero"'s bad result on Charlotte's bad look but the truth is that all schlager-divas flops every last year - Hera Bjork, Katy Wolf, Dana International. And if we like it or not, it's between Loreen and Danny. Only semifinal winners win the final but I don't believe David and Molly will do it.
- February 23, 2012 at 12:41 PM


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Idea for the revival of the British Barbecue Western:
Shambo Must Die!
A small community of well-meaning idiots band together to protect their precious yet cancer-riddled donkey from a marauding horde of doctors from the future.
When the local sheriff bungles an attempt to oversee the slaughter the townsfolk are joined by nut-jobs the parish over to protect the stupid cow.
Only the arrival of an unelected, mono-syllabic madman, barbecue tongs in hand, stuttering "Shambo must die!" can bring the story to it's inevitable bloody finale.
Possible mini-series spin-off:
We follow the hilarious goings-on at the village of nearby Chokesbury who, when left to their own devices after the entire British Army are re-assigned to kill the foreign-sounding Shambo, slaughter each other over a bottle of Evian in a Tesco's carpark.
The Gods Bullocks
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1 comments:
- Anonymous said...
If you kill Shambhu you will be reincarnated as a Cow affected with BSE.
- 26 July 2007 at 04:35
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James Yeary
Literary Arts
James Yeary is a writer, artist, and publisher. For the last several years he has organized a reading series for experimental and innovative poetry with the collective Spare Room. Recently, with the collaboration-minded artists and writers of the group 13 Hats, he has taken part in three gallery exhibitions and several publications. From home he operates the publishing imprint c_L, which has published fifteen issues of a poetry and arts newsletter, five chapbooks, and one book of greeting cards. With local artist (and MAC instructor) Nate Orton, he has published nearly two dozen of the intermedia my day zine series.


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As of December 2010, there were just over 3400 members of the State Bar of Montana, according to its 2011 Membership Survey. Of those who responded to the survey, 55 percent were male and 45 percent were female. Legal specialization areas of those who responded include litigation, criminal law, domestic relations law, administrative/government law, and estate planning/probate/trusts. Employment settings for lawyers who responded to the survey include private practice, government, non-profit organizations, the judiciary, for-profit corporations, and law schools. Of those who worked in a law firm, the majority worked in solo practices or small law firms consisting of two to five attorneys. As you can see from the above results, opportunities for lawyers in Montana are vast and diverse. If you wish to learn how to become a lawyer in the state of Montana, keep reading.
The State Bar of Montana does not require that you have any specific undergraduate education prior to sitting for the state bar exam. However, it does require that the law school from which you graduate is American Bar Association-accredited, and all ABA-accredited schools mandate that you must have at least a bachelor's degree for entrance.
Your undergraduate institution must be accredited by a regional or national organization listed with the U.S. Department of Education. ABA-accredited law schools will only recognize your education if it comes from an accredited university or college.
Requirements and Standards
Some undergraduate universities and colleges offer a pre-law course of study or major. Because the ABA does not mandate which undergraduate courses you should take, if your school does not offer such a concentration, it may be difficult to determine in which courses to enroll. Coursework in law, criminal justice, political science, history, world cultures, economics, business and English are all recommended by those who have gone on to study at ABA-approved law schools after graduation from undergraduate school.
Degree Options
The ABA only requires that you have a bachelor's degree prior to entering law school – it does not specify a certain major. Majors taken from the above-listed coursework areas are often helpful to those who go on to study in law school after graduation.
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Your next step on the road to becoming a Montana lawyer is to pass the LSAT (Law School Admission Test). This standardized test is mandatory in order to gain entrance to ABA-approved law schools across the United States.
How to prepare
You can find helpful, free study resources on the LSAT website such as practice tests and sample questions and answers. If you wish further LSAT preparation, options in Montana include:
LSAT Exam Prep Courses in Montana:
LSAT Exam content
The LSAT tests your abilities in these areas:
The test consists of:
Application process
Apply to take the LSAT and pay the exam fee of $160 online, where you must create an account with the Law School Admission Council (LSAC). You may take the LSAT four times annually, in February, June, October and December, at these Montana testing centers:
Receiving Your Score
You will receive your LSAT score via postal mail about three weeks after taking the test. The lowest possible LSAT score is 120, and the highest possible LSAT score is 180. The following LSAT scores are the most commonly accepted by law schools in Montana, per the ABA:
Application process
After passing the LSAT, you are ready to apply to ABA-approved law schools. You may attend any of the over 200 ABA-accredited law schools nationwide – it need not be located in Montana. Check the complete listing of them in the ABA-LSAC Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools.
Credential Assembly Service
All ABA-approved law schools, regardless of their location, require you to use the Law School Admission Council's Credential Assembly Service (CAS) when applying for enrollment. This service standardizes your transcripts, letters of recommendation, and online evaluations into a format recognized by all ABA-accredited law schools. It can be a real timesaver in helping you gather the supporting materials necessary to send to law schools when you apply. The LSAC charges $155 to use this service, and will also apply electronically to the ABA-approved law schools you select.
The State Bar of Montana mandates that you must have a JD degree from an ABA-approved law school. There are no exceptions to this rule. Even if you graduated from a non-ABA approved law school and were accepted to practice law in another state, you may not apply for admission to Montana's bar without a JD degree from an ABA-approved law school. Foreign law school graduates are not eligible for admission to the Montana bar either.
ABA-Accredited Law Schools in Montana
Just one law school in Montana holds ABA accreditation:
Course requirements
Because the following subject areas will be tested on the Montana bar exam, you must be sure to study them in your law school curriculum:
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Expect to participate in some sort of clinical placement program during your years at law school. Depending upon your school's policies, you may be placed into a public interest setting, in-house clinic, government agency or private law firm, where you will have the chance to put into practice the skills and knowledge you have learned in law school. Your work and performance will be faculty-supervised and you will be graded on your knowledge of substantive legal skills and components, ethical and professionalism issues, and legal competencies.
Degree Programs
The State Bar of Montana requires that you have a JD degree from an ABA-approved law school to take the bar exam. Some ABA-approved law schools offer joint degree programs, so that you can earn another degree at the same time you are earning your JD degree. This increases your career opportunities after graduation. Examples include:
You have your JD degree from an ABA-approved law institution. Now you are ready to take the Montana bar exam. There is no reciprocity or admission on motion – all applicants to the Montana bar must take the state's bar exam. The bar exam is offered in February and July over a three-day period. It is offered in Helena in February and Missoula in July.
The National Conference of Bar Examiners website provides free study aids to help you study for the national portions of the Montana bar exam: the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE) and the Multistate Performance Test (MPT). The State Bar of Montana will also provide copies of previous Montana Essay (MTEE) exams if you request them in writing by mail and attach a fee of $10 per exam requested. Mail your request to State Bar of Montana, P.O. Box 577, Helena, MT 59624. Other bar preparation options include:
Exam content
The first day of the Montana bar exam is devoted to the MTEE. Essays that you may be asked to write may be on any of the following topics:
Day two of the Montana bar exam, you will take the MPT and the MEE. Check the NCBE website for more information. Topics to be covered on the MEE include:
The MPT is a performance test that judges your skills as a lawyer. Skills tested include:
The third day of the Montana bar exam consists of the multiple-choice, 200 questions MBE test. Expect questions from any of the above-mentioned subject areas.
Application Process
Request an Application for Admission online from the State Bar of Montana. You must file your application by March 1 if you plan to take the July bar exam and by October 1 for the February exam. Application fees may be paid online or by check or money order payable to Bar Administrator. Student applicants pay $150, and the late filing fee is an additional $100. Mail your application, fees and all supporting documentation required to Bar Administrator, State Bar of Montana, 7 West 6th Avenue, P.O. Box 577, Helena, MT 59624.
In addition to application fees, you must pay exam fees. Once your application is accepted, you will be notified before the exam when fees are due. Complete this payment information form and pay exam fees as follows:
Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE)
In addition to the Montana bar exam, you must pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE) with a score of 80 or more prior to bar admission. If you have taken the MPRE in another jurisdiction within the past three years, your score is valid. The MPRE is offered at the University of Montana in Missoula in March, August and November. Apply online with the NCBE to take the MPRE.
MBE Transfer Scores
If you took the MBE in another jurisdiction in the past three years and scored at least 130, you may have these scores transferred to the State Bar of Montana.
Pass Rates
The NCBE has compiled passing rates for the Montana bar exam from 2000 to 2009:
First time test takers pass rate Overall pass rate
Licensing and Admission to the Bar
Your bar exam results will be sent by mail to your address about six to nine weeks after the exam. Names of those who passed will also be posted online at the State Bar of Montana website. You will be notified by mail of the time and place of the formal swearing-in ceremony if you pass the exam. This is when admission to the State Bar of Montana will occur.
You have passed the Montana bar exam and are now a member of the State Bar of Montana! Congratulations! Being a Bar member has many benefits, including networking, assistance in finding employment, practice management resources, and much more. The Bar also provides a Lawyer Referral Service. When you are listed with this service, clients who need practice specializations such as yours will be referred to you.
Career opportunities for Montana lawyers may be found in small and large law firms, solo practitioner offices, corporations, government, and non-profit organizations. Some of the most recognizable law firm names in Montana include full-service law firm Moulton Bellingham in Billings, insurance law experts Phillips Haffey in Missoula, immigration lawyers Border Crossing Law Firm in Helena, personal injury and accident lawyers Conklin Nybo & Lanning in Great Falls, and product liability/medical malpractice attorneys Waddell & Magan in Bozeman.
While no Fortune 500 corporations exist in Montana, it does house some larger, well-known companies that may employ lawyers. These include Mountain Press Publishing Company in Missoula, Stillwater Mining Company in Billings, Big Sky Brewing Company in Missoula, software company RightNow Technologies in Bozeman, and First Interstate BancSystem in Billings.
Government organizations and agencies that commonly employ lawyers in Montana include the Office of the State Public Defender in Helena, the Natural Resources Defense Council in Livingston, Montana Conservation Voters in Billings, the State Department of Commerce in Helena, the State of Montana Department of Health and Human Services in Wolf Point, and the City of Billings Legal Department in Billings.
Legal specialty certification
The American Board of Certification (ABC) is a State Bar - recognized certification provider for lawyers in Montana who wish to specialize in business bankruptcy, consumer bankruptcy and creditors' rights laws. You must pass an examination as part of the certification process. For more information, contact ABC at (319) 365-2222 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
The National Board of Legal Specialty Certification (NBLSC) is a State Bar - recognized certification provider for Montana lawyers who wish to specialize in social security disability advocacy, civil pretrial practice advocacy, criminal trial law, family trial law, and civil trial law. Passing an examination is part of the certification process. Contact the Montana state coordinator of the NBLSC, Alexander Blewett, III at (406)761-1960 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Requirements for maintaining license
In order to maintain your law license in Montana, you must complete continuing legal education (CLE) each year. The State Bar of Montana requires that you complete at least 15 hours of CLE each year, and five hours of ethics courses every three years. For more information, contact the State Bar of Montana CLE Department.
Court Systems in Montana
The Montana Judicial System has three levels:
Elective membership organizations
Here are some elective organizations for Montana attorneys with which you might seek membership:
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes. Jeff Alan has written an article on kayaker's essential dress in issue nr. 13 of Ocean Paddler Magazine. In recent times the dress code amongst Dutch kayakers is changing rapidly: on the Voordelta-trip last week I was surprised to meet 6 kayakers of which 5 were dressed in drysuits and only 1 in a neoprene long john three-quarters wet-suit. Which is quit amazing: only a year ago the rate drysuit-wetsuit would have been reversed! The combination of a neoprene long john, an insulating garment on the upper body, covered by a long sleeved paddle top has been the Dutch standard for years. Also in winter.
In his excellent article Jeff describes some pros and cons of drysuit and wetsuits. Where serious risk exists of coming in contact with hard abrasive objects like rocks, Jeff wears a wetsuit. The Achilles' heel of the drysuit is it's vulnerability to tears and punctures. Big advantages are the comfort and the high grade of dry insulation.
The Drysuit creates a new discussion theme for Dutch paddlers: what to wear underneath? Most agree with the principle of a combination of a garment with good wicking ability (= moving sweat away from the skin to the outer surface of the fabric) next to the skin, covered by an insulating layer. Number and thickness of the layers is a personal thing - in search for balance between roasting while paddling and sufficient insulation for the (unintended) swim. I swear to technical underwear (like Helly Hansen or Odlo) in combination with (depending on the conditions) a thick or thin layer of fleece.
The Merino wool solution of the Icebreaker garments is a welcome alternative for one day trips. The wool combines good wicking and insulation capacities, keeps you warm, doesn't itch, can hold a good amount of moisture before it begins to feel damp and smells less. This is almost perfect - but just almost: I experienced that (due to it's absorbing capacities) it takes much longer to dry Merino wool than to dry "technical" garment. On multiple day trips in cold and humid conditions this is in mine opinion a serious disadvantage of the Merino wool option: Merino wool is still humid next day, while the technical garments are dry..(the second disadvantage is the price tag...)


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"With a market that's already dominated by a few strong brands (Southwest, JetBlue) and with major airlines continuously dropping prices there really isn't room for a new entrant. Watch for Song to fold into Delta in the months ahead."
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Parkwood Dance Festival – Sunday March 6
Date22 Feb 2016/
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Less than 2 weeks to go!! We have the most amazing line-up of choreographers and teachers! Dont miss out…. Paul Malek, Kim Adam, Etienne Khoo, Thomas Wadelton, Alysia Bowen, Grady Mitchell and Jana Green! Register now at: www.parkwooddancefestival.com ... Read More →


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For the majority of high-income earners who have financial complexities such as business ownership, home ownership, investments and more, hiring an accountant can make sense.
However, some entrepreneurs and retirees prefer to face tax time alone, despite having significant investments or multiple streams of income.
What is it that makes someone hire a tax professional versus handling their own returns? Let's look at the pros and cons.
Pros: Time and Money
Despite being a financial writer who enjoys handling money, I hire an accountant to do my taxes. I do this so that I can have a professional double check my business income and expenses.
I'm always concerned about properly listing my business deductions, and I want a second set of eyes to look over everything and make sure my deductions are accurate. I also want someone on my side should I get audited; someone I know well who has detailed knowledge of my personal and business transactions. I'm not alone.
John Schmoll, who owns the popular website Frugal Rules and co-owns a copywriting business with his wife, said, "As our business grew I felt that I was overlooking opportunities to save money in different areas, and that I really wasn't doing our tax situation justice. We ended up hiring a CPA three-to-four years ago and, in all honesty, it's one of the best things we've done for our business."
John went on to say that his accountant saves them thousands of dollars each year by taking advantage of deductions that John wasn't aware of previously.
This also brings up the great point that it can be good to work with someone to toss around ideas on how to lower your taxes. After a rather high tax bill this year, I'm already working with my accountant to plan for my 2017 taxes to find ways to reduce the taxes I may owe next year. Although I'm well versed when it comes to finances because of my job, I still enjoy working with a professional to see what he recommends to lower the amount I owe.
For Grayson Bell, the owner of the successful company iMark Interactive, hiring an accountant was more about saving his already limited time. He said, "I used to do my own taxes, but then realized I could better spend my time and energy running my business and gaining more clients."
This makes sense too. It takes me hours just to gather and prepare all of the paperwork to send to my accountant. Plus, my accountant can complete my returns in way less time than it would take me. I'd rather focus on what I do best and outsource my taxes to someone who is an expert.
Cons: A Missed Learning Opportunity
You might assume that hiring an accountant is the way to go, especially for high income earners. That's not always the best option, though. Although hiring an accountant does save time and has the potential to save money if you're uncertain of deductions that apply to you, it still can be a pricey service. Plus, you miss out on personally learning about the tax code, which can prove useful in the future.
That's a big reason why Greg Johnson decided to file his own taxes. Greg and his wife, Holly, run a successful blog called Club Thrifty. Holly was recently featured in Forbes for earning $225,000 from freelance writing income alone, not including her and Greg's blog business income. Add that to owning an LLC taxed as an S-corp and having two rental properties, and many would assume the Johnsons definitely need an accountant.
However Greg says, "Even though we earn more than we used to, I still choose to do my own taxes. In addition to saving money on accountant fees, doing my own taxes has taught me a lot about both my personal finances and my business."
When you outsource this, you can give up the chance to learn about new tax laws and deductions that might affect your personal and business taxes.
My father-in-law, Darryl Alford, is another example of a high net worth individual who has filed his own taxes for over 50 years. Despite having rental property, complex investments, and multiple streams of income, he still manually completes the tax paperwork every year. When I asked him why he's done his own taxes all these years (he's 75) he said, "I just started doing it years and years ago when it was simple, and I just grew into it as it got more complex. Each year, I learned more and more, so it was just a gradual process."
As you can see, deciding whether to hire an accountant is a very personal decision, and depending on how complex your finances are, you may want to put some thought into whether one is right for you.
Do you file your own taxes or do you hire an accountant? Why or why not?
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Despite being on the run from the Belize police, antivirus pioneer John McAfee somehow seems to have found the time to compose an essay on the "pirate haven" qualities of the Caribbean island.
McAfee, 67, has been evading Belize police since Sunday when a housekeeper found McAfee's neighbor in a pool of blood in a beachside home on Belize's Ambergris Caye island. Police want to talk to McAfee about the death of the neighbor, 57-year-old American expatriate Gregory Faull.
Technology magazine Wired published McAfee's purported writing Wednesday. What follows is an excerpt of the 720-word essay, which was emailed to Wired and is available in its entirety on Wired's website:
Belize is, today, still a pirate haven and is run more or less along the lines established centuries ago by the likes of Captain Morgan, Blackbeard and Captain Barrow: Plunder is the preferred means of wealth acquisition; Exploitation is the preferred formula for success; Brutality creates respect; Fear is the means of governance; Extortion is the method of collecting what is due. It's a system that functions more or less smoothly if you play by the rules.


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Carberry still has 'a long way to go' despite Hampshire return
Former England batsman Michael Carberry has revealed he has "a long way to go to being recovered fully" in his battle with cancer despite making an encouraging return for Hampshire in pre-season.
The left-handed opener, who played six Tests and seven limited-overs internationals, underwent surgery after discovering that he had a cancerous tumour last July.
Carberry has been in the runs ahead of the new county season and expressed his gratitude for the support he has received, but said he is still some way from being given a clean bill of health.
"I would like to thank my family, the club, the supporters and my team-mates worldwide for all the kind messages of support and love through another very tough time in my career and life," said the 36-year-old.
"There is still a long way to go to being 'recovered' fully, but the outpour of support from the cricket family has helped massively in getting me back playing, and I'm looking forward to another great summer with Hampshire.
"In regards to the media, I would like to thank you for respecting my privacy in dealing with my illness and I would like to ask for this to continue on my return to the game."
Hampshire start their County Championship Division One campaign with a trip to Yorkshire from April 7-10.


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Apple Rumor Roundup
Analyst Gene Munster is "almost certain" that Apple will release the long-anticipate Intel-based Mac Pro at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on August 7, which will replace the high-end Power Mac G5 that is one of Apple's last machines to see the upgrade to Intel chips. I'd have to agree with him, Apple needs now more than ever to significantly boost the power of their pro machines or they risk losing pro customers to other platforms. The Intel chip is the perfect avenue to increase the speed, performance, and responsiveness of the pro-line of machines.
Gene, with his powers of prediction is also "almost certain" that Apple's latest revision of OS X, code-named Leopard (v. 10.5), will see a release in late 2006 or early 2007. A part of this rumor which isn't yet clear is whether this latest revision will include an update to BootCamp, the software which allows Mac Hardware to dual-boot OS X and Windows XP. The update is speculated to add support for Windows Vista and a new feature which will allow both OSes to be run simultaneously, without the need for a reboot.
Next on the rumor-mill list are Apple's plans to unveil an iTunes movie store - similar to the very popular music store - that will sell feature-length films. There has been a lot of buzz about the difficulty Apple is facing in agreements with major film studios. Apple has changed the digital music store by insisting that every song sell for 99-cents regardless of how popular it is; this line of thinking is counter-intuitive to most record labels whose only interest is to squeeze every penny out of our pocket.
A similar pricing scheme is believed to be in the works for downloaded movies; reports speculate that movies will be sold for $9.99. There are still many issues that need to be resolved such as viewing permissions and copying rights before this service goes live.
Following the iTunes Movie Store rumor is the speculation that Apple is working on an "iPhone". The flop of the ROKR - in my eyes at least - makes many people believe that Apple wants to correct the huge mistake that Motorola made when designing the ROKR. The biggest problem most people have with the ROKR is that it is a mediocre music player AND a mediocre cell phone. Apple is known for the tremendous effort they put into designing hardware and software and many were disappointed at the failure of the ROKR. Whether Apple is actually working on an "iPhone" is still up in the air but certainly is more fiction than fact at this point (Munster puts the time to release for an "iPhone" at 12 months); its more likely that we will see an iPod device mashup sporting cell-phone capabilities and/or other PDA-like features. Here are some sketches of phones enthusiasts have put together:
The rumors don't stop here and they only get more ridiculous from this point on. A less certain rumor is that Apple is working on telephone capabilities for iChat 4.0, similar to Skype features, to be launched simultaneously with OSX 10.5. Again I would agree with Munster that this is less likely to be true but Apple has been known to surprise us in the past so we can't put anything past them.
Mac-enthusiasts and the like are speculating or maybe just praying for few new gadgets such as: a new video iPod that will have a touch-sensitive 4" viewing screen or a home media hub dubbed iHome that would combine music, photo, and video capabilities. The question with a touch-screen iPod is what is the need for that feature when the device GUI (graphical-user-interface) is already super intuitive, a touch-screen would only further increase the price of a device that Apple is looking to lower. The iHome story has been proposed so many times, don't people have any new ideas?
The last three rumors rounding out the top 10 are:
- Apple is in talks with in-flight entertainment systems to offer air travelers iTunes-branded audio content
- Apple is developing an ultra-portable Mac equipped with NAND-flash memory technology
- Apple may soon host advertisements on the iTunes music player interface
First, the in-flight entertainment just isn't Apple's niche, if Apple offered branded content like XM then this would 100% make sense but what most people don't remember is that Apple is just the middle-man that offers the technology and services to the men (or women) with the music. Apple is not in the business of making music content and I hope they never try to. What is a traveler's need to have access to purchase music? Again, maybe if Apple were Napster and offered subscriptions to listen to music then this might make sense but Apple doesn't so I don't see any validity in this rumor. On top of all of this, Apple would need to give the Airlines a cut of the profit, which is small to begin with.
Second on the list of downright dumb rumors is the ultra-portable Mac. All I have to say to this is why? It all comes down to what is Apple's reason for wasting time and money on an "ultra-portable" computer. Isn't that what a laptop is? Do people think that the MacBook and MacBook Pro aren't portable enough? If anything, Apple laptops are one of the most portable laptops on the market. Everyone knows that the equivalent Dell machines are nowhere near as portable especially with power supplies that weigh more than the laptop. Apple's product line is something they put care and consideration into, they are all about simplicity and adding another machine to it needs more justification than just "ultra-portable".
The last of these ingenuous rumors - Apple placing ads on iTunes - I swear must have come from some half-wit PC user. Apple is a company that strives to make technological tasks easier and remove all of the clutter. There is nothing about ads that follows this line of thought so you don't have to worry about seeing adds in iTunes anytime soon, that is unless Microsoft or Napster decide to buy iTunes - hah like that would ever happen.
So that ends the Apple Rumor Roundup. I bet you never thought people had so much free time to conjure up rumors about Apple's next step. If the past is any indicator of the future, the only thing we can be certain of is that Apple will stop at nothing to push the envelope and change what roles computers and now even gadgets play in our lives.


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Adventure racing is becoming increasingly popular in the UK. The Adidas Terrex Adventure Race will be a 4 day non-stop event held in the Lake District. The race will follow a 400 km linear course across Cumbria, with shortcuts available for novice teams.
Good navigation is essential for the race, and you will be provided with detailed maps to follow. The race will include fell running, mountain biking, kayaking, orienteering and a few surprises taking you to those hidden gems. Attitude is everything, so be prepared for the unexpected!
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