In Awe of Analytics

Reporting Ninja sneaks in, slices through data, and leaves behind reports and results after disappearing through the mists of the night without a whisper of sound. Well, close, but Reporting Ninja is on 24/7, and offers results in an easy to understand format for analysts and customers alike. Reporting Ninja is one of many solutions that can be added onto Google Analytics that will help analysts deliver more results with less turnaround time ("Apps Google Analytics Partner Services and Technologies", 2018). Reporting Ninja offers the analyst a chance to schedule reports and email them to the clients without the need for the analyst to intervene ("Adwords reporting, PPC & Analytics reporting tool | Reporting Ninja", 2018). Cultural appropriations aside, Reporting Ninja is a solution offered for Google Analytics to enable analysts to create custom reports for customers without needing to build reports themselves ("Apps Google Analytics Partner Services ...

History of Social Media Social media got its agreed upon start with a website called Six Degrees , which allowed people to establish profiles and find friends ("Then and now: a history of social networking sites", 2018).  This social media website started in 1997 before the term "social media" ("Then and now: a history of social networking sites", 2018). While it had millions of users registered to the site, network growth was hindered due to the amount of people connected to the Internet ("Then and now: a history of social networking sites", 2018). Following Six Degrees, blogging as a platform became popular around 1999 and that popularity continues today (Karr, 2016).  LinkedIn started in 2003 and Facebook came after that in 2004 (Karr, 2016). MySpace was also around in the early 2000s and still exists today (Hendricks, 2013).  YouTube came onto the social media scene is 2005 (Hendricks, 2013). Facebook launched its first ad in 2005 (H...