Experience

clsc.net is based in Copenhagen, Denmark (EU). It is founded and operated by Claus Schmidt.

Communication: I translate between creative, editorial, management, and tech people.
Workflow: I work with your in-house experts or find competent people for any task.

Examples of solved tasks

DR: 12 month long usability and information architecture project: New front page and site map pages. DR is the largest Danish Public Service broadcaster, and their web site is the largest Danish content site.

Bonnier Publications A/S: Custom developed suite of programmed Excel spreadsheets for automatic tracking and presentation of magazine ad effectiveness, as well as user survey results.

UddannelsesGuiden.dk: Prototype of portal covering everything related to education and career choice. Developed for the Ministry of Education. Launched August 2004.

FDIM Internet Award: Custom multimedia CD-rom used in evaluating the best internet advertising campaigns in Denmark.

TalkTown: International web-based groupware. Project management, site structure and features, business model, and even copywriting in Danish and English.

TDC Internet: Portal strategy, two relaunches of major portal, structure for business site, internet research, media market research, and interactive television research.

Peytz & Co.: Market research (cell phone market, internet market, etc), research assistance, and various subcontracts.

FDIM (Danish Association of Internet Media): Extensive work resulting in a common Nordic de facto standard for internet audience measurement.

GodArbejdslyst.dk (and others): Log file analysis.

BullGuard (and others): Research assistance regarding online surveys.

netvertiser: Advisor in research issues for the former largest banner advertising agency in Denmark.

Current projects

clsc.net: Large-scale usability measurement on your site. New product being developed throughout 2004-2005.

Have we met online?

I am known as "claus" at WebmasterWorld, ThreadWatch, and at the SearchEngineWatch Forums. On Slashdot i use the nickname "clsc".

Background

FDIM (Danish Association of Internet Media): Advisor, and since 1997 a working member of the method committee for the official Danish Internet Audience Measurement survey.

TDC Internet: Research manager responsible for all portal-research. Largest ISP in Denmark.

TV 2: Researcher covering tv, teletext, and internet. Largest commercial TV-station in Denmark.

MediaVejviseren: Founder of the largest Danish index to media sites on the internet.

LK as: Market researcher for the largest producer of electrical goods in Denmark.

Education and skills

M.Sc. in Economics and Market Research from Copenhagen Business School.

Three years of Art History studies at the University of Copenhagen.

internet: User since 1992-93. BBS in 1991
- i was online before browsers.
research: quantitative, qualitative, and statistics
software: I use Windows, Mac, Linux.
programming: I know experts for any task i can't solve myself.

A typical Claus Schmidt quote

...in the source code of your page, count the characters... well, don't bother - i can tell you that you have 15.127 characters.

782 of these (5%) are visible. Your page is simply too fat, with a page-fat index of 95%.