{"id":4462,"date":"2009-08-20T05:15:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T12:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/?p=4462"},"modified":"2009-08-20T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T15:55:07","slug":"thank-you-forrester-a-grand-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/thank-you-forrester-a-grand-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you Forrester, a Grand Adventure!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you Forrester! \u00a0When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/27\/pursuing-the-web-strategy-mission-as-a-forrester-analyst\/\">I announced I&#8217;d be joining Forrester nearly two years ago<\/a>, I knew it would have been one of the best moves in my career. I certainly feel I was right. Being a Forrester Analyst is a top role to have in any industry, and one that I&#8217;ll bear proudly for the rest of my professional career.<\/p>\n<p>Working with the industry&#8217;s smartest minds in marketing, strategy, and social has been fantastic, the quality of my colleagues has always kept me learning. \u00a0During my tenure I&#8217;ve been given the opportunity to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/09\/forrester-wave-community-platforms-2009\/\">segment the crowded community platform market<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/report-social-media-marketing-up-during-recession\/\">identify spending trends in social<\/a>, and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/future-of-the-social-web\/\"> forecast the future of the social web<\/a>. \u00a0As one would expect, one of the greatest benefits of being an\u00a0industry analyst\u00a0is seeing where trends are pointing and identify the direction of the market.\u00a0 Having studied this market in-depth as an analyst, I&#8217;m looking forward to getting back into the field to apply them.<\/p>\n<p>For those currently working with Forrester, my ever-gracious hiring manager <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forrester.com\/marketing\/2009\/08\/posted-by-christine-overby--nearly-two-years-ago-i-heard-that-an-influential-blogger-was-interested-in-an-analyst-job-at.html\"> Christine gives details on my transition<\/a> and will keep the dialog going.\u00a0 As she points out, there&#8217;s a whole team of analysts that are focused on the social marketing, I&#8217;d like to recognize a few of my immediate colleagues \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forrester.com\/rb\/analyst\/nate_elliott\">Nate Elliott<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forrester.com\/rb\/analyst\/sean_corcoran\">Sean Corcoran<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forrester.com\/rb\/analyst\/emily_riley\">Emily Riley<\/a> and of course luminary\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forrester.com\/groundswell\/2009\/06\/writing-another-bible.html\">Josh Bernoff<\/a>, who&#8217;s now working on his next book. \u00a0I&#8217;ve relied on them for research and projects, and you should too.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much for letting me serve the social space as an industry analyst &#8211;I look forward to the years of growth ahead.\u00a0\u00a0 So let&#8217;s keep in touch, I want to get your feedback about my next role that I&#8217;ll be announcing next week, you can email me at jeremiah_owyang at\u00a0yahoo.com\u00a0or connect with me on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/jowyang\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you Forrester! &nbsp;When I announced I&rsquo;d be joining Forrester nearly two years ago, I knew it would have been one of the best moves in my career. I certainly feel I was right. Being a Forrester Analyst is a top role to have in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/thank-you-forrester-a-grand-adventure\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thank you Forrester, a Grand Adventure!<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forrester","category-ruminations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}