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Welcome to Customer Analytics, a blog for anyone who is looking for ways to improve the business of marketing and communicating with customers.
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Editor of Blogs and Social Content
+Alison Bolen is the editor of blogs and social content at SAS, where she writes and edits blog content and coaches SAS bloggers on the technical, editorial and community-oriented aspects of blogging. Alison maintains the corporate SAS Voices blog and recently spearheaded a large blog migration project that moved more than 25 corporate blogs from a legacy platform to WordPress. Since starting at SAS in 1999, Alison has edited print publications, Web sites, e-newsletters, customer success stories and blogs. She has a bachelor’s degree in magazine journalism from Ohio University and a master’s degree in technical writing from North Carolina State University.
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