How technology enables companies to connect with customers
Update: Chris Saad, one of the leaders of this group has responded to each one of the expectations that I listed out below. Please read his responses, as he’s open, direct, and taking leadership. Last night, I attended the Mashable awards ceremony, and several people … Continue readingWhat we expect from the Data Portability Working Group
Special note If you’re just reading my blog to get my insight but don’t want to hear about my day job (I get criticized whenever I talk about it) then you can skip this post. It’s a tough line to walk as if I don’t … Continue readingUpcoming Research Calendar
Click To Play Tristan Nitot, (his blog on open source in French) CEO of Mozilla Europe talks about how Firefox spread mainly through word of mouth and people just sharing it and advocating it to others. He suggests that the open source initiative first resonated … Continue readingVideo: Tristan, Mozilla’s European CEO on Evangelism and Word of Mouth (4:00)
Apparently the industry is starved for hard core data and facts, as I received quite a bit of positive feedback about the numbers I published yesterday. It’s really important to point out the strength and weaknesses of data. Data is certainly useful in decision making … Continue readingThe thing about Data
Update Nov 2008: I’ve started a new list of data, with links to new sources on this page Social Networks Site Usage: Visitors, Members, Page Views, and Engagement by the Numbers in 2008. Every so often as an Analyst I get numbers from some of … Continue readingSocial Network Stats: Facebook, MySpace, Reunion (Jan, 2008)
I’m respecting your limited time by publishing this weekly summary, read the summary, then quickly scan headlines, read the bullet, then click to learn even more. I’ve created a category called Digest where you can start to track and access these going forward. Quickly scan … Continue readingWeekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Jan 9, 2008
Last Friday I was offline, not by choice, but due to the power going out due to a storm that hit Northern California. Sure, not a severe storm in comparison to any area that receives regular hurricanes, but most Californians were off guard, myself included. … Continue readingWhat I learned from my Neighborhood
Marketing Profs, a great resource for Marketers, has hired me as a Forrester Analyst to present this webinar on Facebook this Thursday, it’s 90 minutes and just over a hundred bucks “Strategy First on Facebook: Opportunities of a Ready-Made Marketing Platform“. If your boss is … Continue readingNeed to know about Facebook?
I was tagged by both Maggie and Shiv to share eight things in this meme, it’s an interesting way to learn about folks, so here are 8 things you may or may not know. 1) I used to be a music major: Being creative has … Continue readingEight Things you didn’t know about me
Linda and Shawn were up in arms that Affiliate Marketing didn’t receive it’s own sub bullet in the recently published The Many Forms of Web Marketing for 2008. I don’t blame them, this is a core form of marketing that they’ve built their business on, … Continue readingRecognizing the Affiliate Family
