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I've mentioned David Armano a lot in my Blogworld coverage, but he deserves it. He's a positive and effective evangelist for social media, and he shares great stuff. His presentation on creating visuals for your content was one of my highlights of Blogworld. It's not an easy task to break
I was struggling with a calculated member that completes a distinctcount of members in a dimension, the performance was simply unacceptable. After attempting several other measures such as count(), processing changes on the source data, etc, I sent out a msg on Twitter asking for advice. Once again, why aren't
Click on the players below to hear David Armano, Keith Burtis and Wayne Sutton discuss their key takeaways from Blogworld Expo 2009. Clearly I need to grow a beard. ::UPDATE:: I had to take down the players because they were breaking IE. In the meantime, you can listen to the
I'm in one of the last few sessions at Blogworld. I've hit the point of overload. I truly appreciate all the time and effort all the speakers and organizers have put into making this an incredibly useful and practical event. I love how much people are willing to share. I
Jeremiah Owyang from Altimeter Group led a fascinating panel at Blogworld today titled "Where Are We Going? The Future of Social Media & Business." As I did yesterday with Chris Brogan's session, I'm posting my tidied-up notes here. This session was without a doubt a call to action for corporate
Key theme from Blogworld 2009 from David B Thomas on Vimeo.
Considering I'm at Blogworld it's not surprising I've been thinking a lot about the ways we communicate in social media and how blogs fit into the equation. I contributed to my first blog in 2001 and started my own in 2003 back when there weren't all these other options, like
Included are a few of my favorite things about the new OLAP Server (for SAS 9.2 EBI Installations). Export/Import via SAS spk file The .spk files are packages that contain everything needed to export from Development and import into Production. This is an IDEAL way to reduce dev-test-prod interactions on the
Chris Brogan delivered the closing keynote today at BlogWorld Expo. As usual it was inspiring, often unexpected and a bit profane. I'm posting my notes cleaned up a bit but more or less as I took them. ------------------------ This is no rah-rah speech. This is not going to be "hooray,
I'm about to embark on an uncharacteristic whirlwind of travel. I've been lucky enough to be invited to speak at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, Marketing Profs Digital Marketing Mixer in Chicago and the Social Media Business Forum in Durham, NC. All three are crammed into a span of nine
There are some things about forecasting that you may only discover by being a forecaster. Simply managing a forecasting process, or being a downstream consumer of the forecast, isn't always enough. If you have something to say to your management about forecasting, but would rather avoid the confrontation, maybe we
After mentioning the requirements in SAS Management Console to create and edit Shared Prompts (https://blogs.sas.com/content/bi/2009/09/24/creating-a-shared-prompt-for-multiple-imaps-and-stps-9-2/), I then came across functionality in SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2. In the 'Server List', there is a small blue circle with a 1-2-3 and when you mouse over you will see 'Prompt Manager'. When adding
Graduate and undergraduate students are eligible to apply for the SAS Student Ambassador Program, which covers the cost of travel expenses and registration fees paid to attend SAS Global Forum 2010. What’s the “catch?” You must complete an application and submit a presentation abstract and working draft by midnight October
Sometimes people don't want to hear that social media takes time and effort. I made this short video after seeing the "social media guru" video on YouTube done with the same tool from Xtranormal. Please note: If I work with you and you see any resemblance to any conversation we've
A user who is a member of the "SAS Administrators" group and has been granted the role "Management Console: Advanced" can create a Metadata Backup job via SAS 9.2 Management Console. Right Click on 'Backup and Restore' Task under 'Metadata Utilities'. Then select the Backup task created and choose either