Need to Know - Small Business Technology: February 20, 2012

We got behind in posting our near daily small business technology updates due to an intense training schedule. Here's what popped up in today's professional reading:

The Biggest Mistake Web Analysts Make… And How To Avoid It! - Great article by Google analytics guru. Suitable for both beginners and advance webmasters.

How Inbound Marketing Works, From Start to Finish - Clever infographic explaining the inbound sales process visually. Need to print some of these poster size for the classroom.

Ecommerce Comes to Twitter - How-to article on getting started with Chirpify, the Twittter ecommerce platform.

Infographic: The most recent (and incredibly impressive) Facebook stats - Another fun infographic to gawk at. Don't forget to pin it on Pinterest.com

Tools of the Travelgeek: Voice and Data Devices - Really useful article for anyone travelling overseas, including on cruises. Describes what equipment to take and how to use it to avoid high data and roaming charges. I didn't know cruise ships charged $5/minute for cell calls. I feel better about my $0.30/minute pre-paid  now.

Brailletouch app to bring eyes-free texting to iPhone and iPad - Very cool invention. Click through and check out this innovation.

Smartphone Users Say Web Access More Indispendable Than Texting - Did you know that most smartphone turn to laptops when they lose their phone's data connection? Good behavioral insight in this brief article.

Congrats, US Government: You're Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US - Diatribe with a tongue-in-cheek migration checklist for web based businesses. Read and ponder this.

The Post-Office Generation - Microsoft Office's growing irrelevance due to ubiquitous tablets, Dropbox, and cheapo editor apps.