Marketers in the high-tech world who use phrases such as “social media marketing,” “Facebook marketing” and “content marketing” do not understand the basic difference between marketing strategies, marketing channels and marketing content. And Google Analytics is to blame.
In the just over 10 years since the release of the platform in November 2005, too many tech marketers now ignore the difference between strategies and channels, favor digital channels that often deliver lower returns than traditional channels and think that direct responses are the only useful ROI metric.
And all of that is wrong.
No one ever said “television marketing”

Imagine that it is the 1990s and I want to reach the people who watch “Friends” on television. I would have these three available strategies out of the five that comprise the traditional Promotion Mix:
I could run an advertisement during an episode of “Friends.” I could pay NBC to have the coffee house hold an event that

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Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2016-043
Project: Piwik Web Analytics (third-party module)
Version: 7.x, 8.x
Date: 2016-August-10
Security risk: 13/25 ( Moderately Critical) AC:None/A:Admin/CI:Some/II:Some/E:Theoretical/TD:Uncommon
Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting
Description
This module enables you to add integration with Piwik statistics service.
The module allows admin users to enter custom JavaScript snippets to add advanced tracking functionality. The permission required to enter this JavaScript was not marked as restricted.
This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker must have a role with the permission “Administer Piwik”.
For greater flexibility a new feature has been added to the module to implement the new permission “Add JavaScript snippets” that can be assigned to users who are allowed to add JS code snippets into your web site.
If you have granted the Administer Google Analytics to non trusted users, please check your settings to make sure all javascript entered is valid.

CVE identifier(s) issued
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FREE!! Printable USGS PDF Quads
A Quick, Easy, and Free way to Download any Quad in the Country
National Geographic has built an easy to use web interface that allows anyone to quickly find any quad in the country for downloading and printing. Each quad has been pre-processed to print on a standard home, letter size printer. These are the same quads that were printed by USGS for decades on giant bus-sized pressed but are now available in multi-page PDFs that can be printed just about anywhere. They are pre-packaged using the standard 7.5 minute, 1:24,000 base but with some twists:

Page 1 is an overview map showing the Quad in context
Pages 2 through 5 are the standard USGS Quads cut in quarters to fit on standard printers
Hillshading has been added to each page of the PDF to help visualize the topography
*Please note: 0.5% of the quads have not been

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NSIS 3.0 readyAuthor: Amir SzekelyPosted: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 01:04:34 -0000NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.
Long-awaited version 3 of NSIS is finally ready. It comes with optional Unicode support, still works on all the same versions of Windows, supports Windows 10, and adds a lot of other small features and fixes. Huge thanks goes out to Anders and Wizou for making this happen and Jim Park for the original patch.
Download:http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download
Release notes:http://nsis.sourceforge.net/rn/v3.0NSIS 3.0rc2 readyAuthor: Amir SzekelyPosted: Sat, 09 Jul 2016 04:36:09 -0000NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.
NSIS 3.0rc2 is the second and hopefully

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I’m thrilled today to announce the release of a major new version of Mathematica and the Wolfram Language: Version 11, available immediately for both desktop and cloud. Hundreds of us have been energetically working on building this for the past two years—and in fact I’ve personally put several thousand hours into it. I’m very excited about what’s in it; it’s a major step forward, with a lot of both breadth and depth—and with remarkably central relevance to many of today’s most prominent technology areas.

It’s been more than 28 years since Version 1 came out—and nearly 30 years since I started its development. And all that time I’ve been continuing to pursue a bold vision—and to build a taller and taller stack of technology. With most software, after a few years and a few versions, not a lot of important new stuff ever gets added. But with Mathematica and the Wolfram

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Earlier this week, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update began rolling out to over 350 million Windows 10 devices. With this release, we’re proud to introduce EdgeHTML 14, the third and most significant update to the Microsoft Edge web platform since our initial release just one year ago.
Developers can start testing EdgeHTML 14 today by updating their Windows 10 device or downloading a free virtual machine from Microsoft Edge Dev.

EdgeHTML 14 raises the bar across every component of the browser, introducing a new extension platform, a class-leading focus on accessibility and inclusive design, and doubling down on fundamentals like efficiency, security and performance. It also represents another leap forward in compatibility and interoperability with the modern web, making it more painless than ever for developers to code and test for Windows customers.
Back in January, we set out five priorities for the Windows web platform in 2016. With that lens, let’s walk

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For seventy years, a prayer book moldered in the closet of a family in France, passed down from one generation to the next. Its mildewed parchment pages were stiff and contorted, tarnished by burn marks and waxy smudges. Behind the text of the prayers, faint Greek letters marched in lines up the page, with an occasional diagram disappearing into the spine.The owners wondered if the strange book might have some value, so they took it to Christie’s Auction House of London. And in 1998, Christie’s auctioned it off—for two million dollars.For this was not just a prayer book. The faint Greek inscriptions and accompanying diagrams were, in fact, the only surviving copies of several works by the great Greek mathematician Archimedes.An intensive research effort over the last nine years has led to the decoding of much of the almost-obliterated Greek text. The results were more revolutionary than anyone had expected.

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