Archive for August, 2007
There’s nothing to look at
I’m off.
Not forever but for the next 2 1/2 weeks with the family in Spain.
Will get back to posting about the lovely world of analyst relations, social media and technology when I return.
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Charlene Li from Forrester today points out some great links today that helps to explain what web 2.0 or social networking is all about. This is all thanks to a company called Common Craft.
No longer will I struggle to explain to my wife why del.icio.us or Wikis are so important - now I can show her [...]
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Evaluating good analysts
Maurene Grey (ex Gartner analyst) has just published a great post explaining how analysts informally evaluate their peers which I have reproduced below:
Does the analyst actively listen before asking questions?
Does the analyst treat non-client vendors with the same respect as client vendors? (If treated with respect, non-clients can become clients.)
Seasoned PR and AR people recognize [...]
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At the beginning of the year Gartner proudly predicted that blogs are on the way out.
The prediction came as part of a larger report of the group’s top 10 predictions for 2007 and beyond and speculated that the number of active bloggers would hit its all-time high in 2007, leveling out soon thereafter (Gartner says [...]
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For many years I have complained that the major analyst firms do not take the SMB market seriously. They have little inclination to put the necessary resources behind what is undoubtedly a very tough market and give solid advice.
When Dale Vile at Freeform Dynamics conducted on online survey with The Register, I think he may have found [...]
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Analyst blogs and security
There is a great email discussion going on at present that Barbara French has initiated as she tries to update her analyst blog directory - a great tool to which I used as a reference point for creating the top 50 analyst bloggers league table.
Amongst the issues discussed is:
1) What constitutes a blog
2) What [...]
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