Hello World! Happy new year. Today I make good on one of my new year’s resolutions — to start blogging again.

I am looking over my calendar and see I have four upcoming speaking engagements:

• Strata, February 1-3
• eTail West, February 22-25
• eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit San Francisco, March 13-18
• eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit Toronto, April 26-29

I agreed to each, because each is worth attending. The Marketing Optimization Summits need no introduction: if you are remotely interested in web analytics and marketing optimization, you already know the name eMetrics. eTail is all about online retail, focusing on multi-channel e-commerce, campaign management, etc. it will be my first time there and I’m excited about it. Strata is a new conference from O’Reilly that promises to showcase a wealth of innovation in Big Data – much broader in scope than any of the other conferences, and probably a lot more technical too.

If you see me at any of these, please say hello!