I mentioned earlier today that somebody could track the number of postage stamps they issued on a dashboard if they were worried about it. (See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1111711 )Someone asked "What do you mean by 'dashboard'?" Well, not that it is the canonical example by any means, but here's mine. It makes me more efficient at customer support, surfaces my metrics faster, and saves me time.
I'm sincerely interested in seeing yours if you want to show off (or even hearing what you have on it, if you don't want to show the numbers/graphs). This stuff is fun to me.
Great post, thank you. I have a similar problem to you with a constant urge to check my sales page, web stats (clicky AND ga) and adWord campaign stats. I'm really trying to get it all into one place so I can just glance at it and see. It's good to see someone who has already done that :)
this has inspired me to build a dashboard of my own (of sorts). i remember sitting at the hacker dojo down in mountain view with a guy working on starting a cloud services company. he was reading a book on dashboard design but i can't remember what it was called. assuming he doesn't manage to find this post, can anyone recommend a good dashboard design book?
I'm sincerely interested in seeing yours if you want to show off (or even hearing what you have on it, if you don't want to show the numbers/graphs). This stuff is fun to me.