Jul 9, 2017
This week Daniel and Ciaran have some more tips and tools for you. We start with a brief overview of the new GDPR EU legislation due to take effect in May 2018 and how it affects email marketers. We also discuss nine tools all focused on helping you to improve your website, monitor website downtime as it happens, improve your drawing, measure data in exciting and animated formats from multiple sources, plus we have a quick round-up of our favourite screen capture and video screen capture software.
Under discussion this week:-
Are you ready for GDPR?
Do you even know what it is? If you are involved with email
marketing, and you send email to subscribers in the EU, then you
need to know all about this new legislation which comes into effect
in 2018 and how it affects what you need to be doing now.
New
Relic
Nothing to do with discovering magical
or mystical objects, New Relic helps you to understand how the code
is functioning on your website and flag up any slow code or errors
on your web server.
Google Autodraw
Rubbish at drawing?
Google Auto draw may be able to come to your aid with artificial
intelligence to help your drawing, turning it into something
recognisable.
Chrome Experiments
Geek out on fun
things your browser will do if you push the limits.
Uptime Robot
Monitor your website and get
alerted to any downtime for free. Also, take a look at siteuptime.com which does a
similar thing
Google Data Studio
Now out of Beta
and with the 3 report limit removed, Google data studio is well
worth investing some time and effort into. An ideal wash boarding
tool which you can link up to all sorts of data beyond what you
have in Google Analytics. Check it out.
Awesome Screenshot and Evernote Skitch
Need
to annotate a screenshot to illustrate a point? These two tools are
just the ticket. Ideal for communicating visual things relating to
your website to developers and co-workers.
Awesome Screenshot Chrome extension
If you have found some great tools you would like us to cover, please add them to the comments, with your thoughts on what makes the