Jeremiah Owyang

I have the fortunate position of being able to travel quite a bit, and just about every city I go to (just landed in SF a few hours ago from two weeks in Europe), I try to arrange tweetups, sometimes, it’s the first time folks … Continue readingImpacts of Tweetups and Ongoing Stewardship

A few years ago, before I started at Forrester, I posted why corporate websites are irrelevant, (it’s actually a precursor to this report) and it started to get translated into 10 languages by the community. A few weeks ago, we launched a report about the … Continue readingWill You Translate the Future of the Social Web?

Last night the Parisian Twitter community met up at LaCantine, a coworking space. If you attended, you can find those folks Twitter handles on the initial blog post and follow your neighbors. Fredric took pictures, and blogged his thoughts from the event in French (and … Continue readingCultural Norms and Social Technology Adoption: A Discussion in Paris

I’m headed to Paris on Tuesday, leaving Amsterdam where I’ll be officially on vacation. While I’ll certainly take a break from work and heavy blogging, one of the things I’m passionate about (paid or not) is meeting folks in the social media space. I’ve noticed … Continue readingParis Tweetup: Wed, 20th of May

I continue to think it’s interesting to draw parallels from natural sciences and what’s happening to the social industry, and also how communities behave and grow. From the five eras of the social web (my inspiration was the stratification of this beach cliff), and watching … Continue readingCambrian Era: Culling and Evolution of Social Media Startups

Above Video: John McCrea and long term friend Joseph Smarr (He knew me way back when I was Hitachi’s community manager) and I…ahem yes, Mr Spock too, chat on Social Web TV at Plaxo, one of the companies I interviewed for the report. The Viddler … Continue readingVideo: The Five Eras on Social Web TV

Dutch Technographics View more presentations from jeremiah_owyang. Above: Social Technographics of Netherlands, see other global data for free at Forrester’s Technographics Profile Tool, for our clients we can cut this data in a variety of ways by role, region, and sometimes affinity. Social Technographics Reveal … Continue readingDutch Fond Of Social Technologies, But Why?

Left: Dr. Urs Gasser of Harvard’s Berkman Center, who focuses on Digital Natives. I’m live blogging from Corporate Social Networking Conference in Amsterdam, and listening to Dr. Urs Gasser of Harvard’s Berkman Center, his website and twitter account (works with friend Doc Searls) who coined … Continue readingWhat Companies Should Know About Digital Natives