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Gaining Insight From Social Media Data

The ROI of Good Design

November 12, 2009

Last week I attended the Internet Summit in Raleigh and heard something remarkable. John Kosner, the Senior Vice President and [...]

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A Brief, Lightly-Held But Contrarian View Of Twitter Lists

November 4, 2009

There are 99 reasons to love Twitter lists, but here is one reason to at least think twice about them. [...]

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Focus Groups and the Research-Starved Organization

November 3, 2009

It’s no secret that traditional media is in an existential crisis right now, and budgets in print, radio and TV [...]

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Raising The Bar On Social Media Metrics

October 24, 2009

Yesterday at the Social Media Business Forum in Durham (which, by the way, was organized and run very well by [...]

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Grabbing Headlines and Survey Reporting

October 22, 2009

The trend of awful Twitter stat reporting continues. This time, it’s AdWeek telling us that “19% of U.S. Internet Users [...]

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Why The Wolfram Alpha App Costs $50

October 19, 2009

Wolfram Alpha is now available as an application on the iPhone. While I’d love to have this app, Wolfram priced [...]

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Podcasting On The Big Screen

October 17, 2009

Leo Laporte gave a great keynote address at Blogworld today which included news that content from his media company, TWiT.TV, [...]

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The Death Of Focus Groups?

October 14, 2009

Today I watched a little of the coverage for The BIG Conference, a social media event held in my home [...]

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What’s Wrong With Social Media Marketing Strategy

October 12, 2009

I’m not a social media strategist–I’m a researcher. I actually don’t know very many social media strategists. That’s not a [...]

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Social Media Data Analysis 101: Sampling and Reporting

October 7, 2009

One of the things I hope to do in this space is to help practitioners and enthusiasts of social media [...]

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