Thomas Fuchs Martin over at webproductblog.com had a great post called "the 7 reasons why good product managers must be on Twitter" which covers the big reasons like listening to customer feedback and connecting with other PM's. This then got me thinking about other perhaps less pressing reasons to be on Twitter and I give you...
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Advanced Google Search techniques are very useful to analyze competitors or identify sites that stole your content! Also from time to time it is a good thing to check what is going on with your website´s Google index.
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In my opinion it happens too often that these important web analytics terms get mixed up or misunderstood. Sometimes even people that work in the internet industry seem to get confused. Whenever you have doubts if your conversation partner understood these terms right, you should better explain these differences again!
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It is just strange that there are still so many pages with horrible webdesign online. Well, at least it inspired me to publish a list of my “favourite” (or better said: “most annoying”) user experience nightmares. Please also check the references to other webdesign-experienced bloggers that have a similar point of view:
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Twitter is a really powerful tool to get in touch with other internet people. In the last time I was looking for web analytics experts in Twitter and found an excellent resource at the Blog of Rich Page. Even more interesting people I found while doing searches in Twitter and Google. Please let me know If I missed somebody in this list and tweet me. I want to keep this list up to date and I will update it from time to time.
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Gantt charts are a good way to visualize project plans. To prepare Gantt charts in a quick and easy way you will need the help of specialized tools
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Ok, so you’re a startup blogger. You want to establish yourself in the online world and hopefully make a little money in the process. Well, if you’re like me, it is quite a difficult and intimidating task to just “start.” Maybe you are a website designer, a logo designer, maybe you specialize in banner design, business card design, blog design, or you work with coding like CSS and xHTML. No matter what it is you are doing, we all must start somewhere.
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Why the Title is One of the Most Important Elements of Your Next Post The title of your next post is the main factor that people use to determine whether they’ll read your next post. This is true in most places that people are going to stumble upon your post whether it be on a search engine, in an RSS feed, on a social media site, in a link from another blog etc.
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It has been a long winter, and actually I am still waiting for spring though it’s almost March. If You are working with computer in daily basis, beautiful desktop wallpaper can significantly inspire and make Your coffee breaks a little more warmer with some eye-candy. I also tried to select and find high resolution wallpapers, but I was surprised, it was not easy - many people still forget to think about designers with huge monitor resolutions,
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Enabling Cross-Functional Teams: A Leadership Role for Product Managers — Product Management Training, Product Marketing Training by Pragmatic Marketing - http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publica...
A cross-functional team helps communicate more broadly, gain alignment more easily, and builds better products. And as an added benefit, the team helps product managers spend more time in the market, figuring out what should be developed next year and the year after. By Stacey Weber
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For some reason people from all over the world are using Twitter like crazy at the moment. Well, actually it is not really surprising, because you can do a lot of cool things with it. In this post I list and explain my reasons why I use Twitter and why I think every good Product Manager should do so as well:
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Web Product Managers hear pretty often the following terms during their daily business: User Experience Design, User Interface Design and last not least: Usability. Unfortunately the use of these terms is sometimes a little bit messy and can lead to confusion or even misunderstandings. But no need to worry, at the blog of Whitney Hess I found a cool presentation that frames out the most common misconceptions about user experience design:
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Broken Link Analysis With The Free Tool Xenu Link Sleuth There are no broken links on your web page? Sure? If your web project is bigger than a couple of pages you will need the help of an automatic link checker tool to answer this question. If you do not check the links regularly and there are too many broken links you risk that: * the usability will be bad, because users just waste their time with clicking on the broken links * the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) suffers, because the search engine crawlers might waste their (limited!) time with following these links.
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Twitter can be a good source of information… if you follow the right people! I think the best thing you can do in Twitter is following other people that have the same job like you! That way you can always stay up-to-date in web product management! I have also created a twitter account for this blog, you can find it here: TwitterCounter for @webproductblog Why do I think you should follow these people in Twitter? I think so, because they: 1. all have experience as product managers => you can learn from them. 2. they twitter mainly about product management topics => you will not have to read too many offtopic-tweets Product Managers in Twitter: 1. Stewart Rogers | http://twitter.com/Stewart... 2. Prdct Mgmt - JP Fozo | http://twitter.com/product... 3. Cranky Product Mgr | http://twitter.com/crankypm 4. The Productologist | http://twitter.com/product... 5. Jeff Lash | http://twitter.com/jefflash 6. Derek Morrison | http://twitter.com/allabou...
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Working as a Product Manager in the internet world is a very interdisciplinary challenge. So it is not a big surprise that many career changers from other departments come to Web Product Management. For the case you are one of them and got overwhelmed with your new responsibilities: Don´t worry, there are a couple of good guides for Product Managers out there in the web.
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webproductblog.com is a blog about product management, especially for web product managers and other internet professionals like webdesigners, developers and project managers. It is about topics like user experience design, quality assurance, project management, product planning and competitors analysis the blog webproductblog.com is also available on twitter: http://twitter.com/webprod... - the author of this blog is Thomas Fuchs-Martin see also: http://www.linkedin.com/in... and the Twitter: http://twitter.com/Donfuxx last not least the stumbleupon: http://donfuxx.stumbleupon.com/ /* because great web products don´t happen by accident */
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Advanced Segments are very useful for comparing different user streams and illustrating them with graphs. You can find a good explanation how you can create this segments with Google Analytics at the official Google Analytics Blog. The following questions you should always answer in your traffic stream analysis:
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