Google recently announced the general availability of the Google Slides API. The announcement was accompanied by video from the new G Suite Dev Show presented by Wesley Chun embedded below, […]
Author: Martin Hawksey
Redux: How to open a Google Sheet at a specific row for editing
Many years ago I posted a way you could open a Google Sheet at a specific row for editing. This let you do some url wrangling where you could direct […]
Using CiviCRM with Google Script/Google Drive with the new CiviService Google Script Library
At the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) we use the open source CiviCRM for membership and events management. I’ve previously described how we are able to do Custom regular reporting […]
23ThingsEdUni: Thinking about things by doing things #23things
I’d heard about the 23Things course from various people and my boss Maren, who is in rhizo16 withdrawal, was keen that the ALT team got involved. The course is described […]
Keeping your Twitter Archive fresh and freely hosted on Github Pages
tl;dr How do you keep your downloaded Twitter archive fresh on Github Pages using Google Apps Script? By running this Google Apps Script powered web app. If you were to […]
Social Media Analytics: Using Data to Understand Public Conversations (course feat. TAGS) #FLsocmed
Queensland University of Technology have just started a free FutureLearn course on ‘Social Media Analytics: Using Data to Understand Public Conversations’. The course is described as: From the personal to […]
Totally Unscripted: A new Google Apps Script community hangout (Hangout On Air Tips)
The day job at the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) and my Google Apps Script hobby made an unexpected collision recently when I was asked by Bruce Mcpherson to contribute […]
#IWMW16: The Google Analytics of Things (recording and slides)
I recently got to try out a new talk at IWMW16 in Liverpool on ‘The Google Analytics of Things’: The majority of websites are using Google Analytics for tracking and […]
#IWMW16 #Techtalk: The Google Analytics of Things (livestreamed if you are interested… ;)
Tomorrow I’m looking forward to trying out a new talk at IWMW16 in Liverpool on ‘The Google Analytics of Things’. Tune in to the live stream at 2pm BST tomorrow (22nd June 2016) to watch.
TAGS Tricks: Find your website’s top Twitter influencers by combining TAGS with Google Analytics referral data
The basic concept is that if you are using Google Analytics to track your website usage you can see the volume of traffic from particular sources including Twitter as a referral source. As referral links from Twitter are unique we can identify who originally tweeted the link to your site and measure its impact (number of visits, purchase, etc.).
TAGS Tricks: Making a searchable location map of your top Twitter contributors with Geocode by Awesome Table
In this post I’ll show you how to make a searchable Twitter contributor map like the one below in a couple of clicks, however I feel it’s my duty to educate you first…
Getting Inspired by IWMW (see you at #iwmw16)
This is a repost of a guest post I wrote for the Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) event. Original post is here and thanks to Brian Kelly for edits. The […]