Monthly Archives: February 2009
A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of attending a full-day seminar by Garr Reynolds where he discussed his ideas for simplifying presentations. It was an amazing day because it demolished the typical approaches for creating corporate presentations. … Continue reading
Question: If I had to choose between starting an AR-Sales partnership or launching a social media initiative, which way should I go? If I did both, but with limited resources, how should I divide my efforts? During the happy hour … Continue reading
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Forrester analyst and best-selling business book Groundswell co-author Josh Bernoff (blog, Twitter handle, bio) has an interesting little critique of the emails he receives in Three quarters of the PR email I receive is irrelevant. Why? Josh tweeted me that … Continue reading
There has been significant activity on the social media front over the last few weeks that you might want to examine for relevance, either as an end-user client of the analysts or a vendor AR team. Gartner has moved to … Continue reading
SageCircle has received credible intelligence from AR professionals on both sides of the Atlantic that Forrester Research initiated a job action resulting in analyst lay offs. We will continue to provide updates as we learn new information. Update – 2/18/09 6:53 am PT – Initial … Continue reading
At SageCircle we keep our eye on all aspects of the analyst ecosystem. This includes other bloggers with opinions about the analysts. In a very uninformed blog post, Irrelevance doesn’t pay, analystsanalyst said that analysts should “… start telling people … Continue reading
It their Q4 and full year 2008 earnings calls, both Gartner (2/5/09) and Forrester (2/11/09) commented on how the recession is impacting enterprise end user attendance at their events. Example statements: Gartner CEO Gene Hall “As discussed on our last … Continue reading
Comment/Question: Re: your point below about jobs for senior analysts, here’s an idea for a blog entry – the pluses and minuses of former analysts taking on vendor analyst relations roles. That ought to stimulate some discussion on the comments … Continue reading
A warm compliment for Merv Adrian and an interesting comment about the Forrester layoffs
Posted on February 28, 2009 by sagecircle
Background: This text originally came in as a comment to Forrester experiences analyst layoffs. Because of the last line, I did not approve the comment leaving it as a private communication to SageCircle. But I did tweet that someone had sent along a very … Continue reading →