How technology enables companies to connect with customers
My job as an industry analyst is listen to pitches from different vendors, from small startups, to the web giants. I get paid (yes I’m a professional BS filter) to listen to their pitches –and then translate it into reality for reports and for our … Continue readingHow to Translate Vendor Talk into Plain English
This is part 3 of an ongoing community project to help people understand how to get jobs during a recession. This data is slightly skewed towards those that are already active in social media as the survey went to those within my network on my … Continue readingJobs in a Recession Survey Results 3: Most Recent Hires Received “Average” Compensation
Last year, I kicked off a twitter game that let folks rate superbowl ads, and we collected the results from the tweets and found that the popular favorites on twitter weren’t too different than what media analysts were predicting. We found that many enjoyed making … Continue readingRate the Superbowl Ads: How To Participate
This is part 2 of an ongoing community project to help people understand how to get jobs during a recession. This data is slightly skewed towards those that are already active in social media as the survey went to those within my network on my … Continue readingJobs in a Recession Survey Results 2: Most Recent Hires Got Jobs in Less Than Three Months
This is part 1 of an ongoing community project to help people understand how to get jobs during a recession. This data is slightly skewed towards those that are already active in social media as the survey went to those within my network on my … Continue readingJobs in a Recession Survey Results 1: Recent Hires Got Jobs Via Referral from Friends, Colleagues, Alumni, or Family
I’m a former community manager, and many of my friends are currently in this role, and I want to make sure they are armed with the right knowledge to succeed during hard times –I know some of them may get laid off. Community Managers are … Continue readingCommunity Managers Must Deliver ROI: Commandments For Surviving a Recession
I’m respecting your limited time by publishing this weekly digest on the Social Networking space, which I cover as an industry analyst. By creating this digest (I started this over a year ago) it really helps me to stay on top of the space I … Continue readingWeekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Jan 27, 2009
This is just an educated guess, as we don’t have confirmation from Twitter, nor has the funding closed. Rumors are coming in that Twitter may raise another round of capital at valuation of $250mm, quick calculations from my archive of social networking stats show many … Continue readingTwitter’s Valuation, $73.52 an Active User?
It’s entertaining to watch how the PR industry self-spins, in this latest dust up regarding a tweet by James Andrews, an executive who works at Ketchum, a well known PR agency. James is accused of bad form, and his company had to backtrack when he … Continue readingMisjudgment or Transparency? How a Single Tweet Caused a Stir With a Client
Yesterday, Stephanie Agresta brought nine tech and business students from Iowa’s Luther College (blog) to meet me at our Foster City office for some Q&A about the business world they’re about to enter. This day, Jan 20th was the first day Obama has been in … Continue readingThe Obama Generation
