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Gaining Insight From Social Media Data

A Consumer Behaviorist Looks At The Death Of Facebook Places

August 24, 2011

TweetFacebook recently decided to kill off “Places,” its entry into the location-based apps and services game. There are a few [...]

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Clicks, Cakes, And The Limits Of Social Media “Science.”

August 21, 2011

TweetThere is an apocryphal story in the annals of market research that I particularly love about cake mix (“apocryphal,” by [...]

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What I Wish Influence Measures Really Meant

August 17, 2011

Tweet Tomorrow I am giving a keynote luncheon at the Triangle AMA on “How To Think About Online Influence,” and [...]

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An Influential Talk

August 9, 2011

TweetWell, it’s about influence, at least. If you are vaguely in the center of North Carolina (or fancy a road [...]

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The Problem With Keeping Score

August 5, 2011

TweetOne of the things I regret most about the current state of the social web is our fascination with keeping [...]

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What Game Shows Can Teach You About Decisions

July 24, 2011

TweetThis is one of the best explanations I have ever seen of what we stat hounds call the “Monty Hall [...]

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Exclusive New Research On The Airline Industry

July 23, 2011

Tweet You know I’m right, people. Tweet

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Should Klout Scores Be “Stickier?”

July 20, 2011

TweetAfter reading my friend Mark Schaefer’s latest provocative post about Klout, “The Making of a Social Media Slut,” I had [...]

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Mommy Bloggers: You’ve Got Company

July 18, 2011

TweetRecently, my colleague at Edison, Melissa DeCesare, authored a report entitled Moms And Media: 2011, with data based upon our [...]

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The Uneasy Relationship Between Twitter and Social Media Measurement

June 4, 2011

TweetRecently, I presented some brand new research into the adoption and usage of social media in America at Blogworld in [...]

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