Tag Archives: blogs
This is a recording of “The Impact of Social Media on the Analyst Industry” webcast from July 21, 2010, which was a roundtable discussion on how industry analysts like Gartner and Forrester are… or are not… adapting to changes in … Continue reading
In March Forrester launched a new blog platform that offers a number of nice features such as being able to recommend posts and showing recent tweets while keeping the role-based blog structure (see this post for details). The most important new … Continue reading
Former AMR Research (and other firms) sourcing analyst Phil Fersht has an interesting blog post contributing to the debate on Forrester’s policy banning personally-branded research blogs by its analysts. One of the reasons why this post is interesting is that … Continue reading
While getting significant buzz, the use of social media in the analyst ecosystem is still at a nascent stage. Some analysts and AR professionals are making interesting use of blogs, Twitter, and so on, but for the most part social … Continue reading
Today SageCircle is launching a new directory for tracking the Forrester analysts who blog. You can find it in the left-hand navigation menu section Directories. Look for Blog Directory - Forrester. The reason why a directory is needed even though Forrester … Continue reading
This weekend we spent considerable hours updating the SageCircle directories. This exercise always generates interesting insights such as: Analyst Twitter Directory – 46 additions, 4 updates. Change can come quite quickly. The IDC Financial Insights team members decided to put … Continue reading
A frequent comment that SageCircle gets when discussing AR blogs with AR managers is “But I don’t have anything to write about.” Horsefeathers! Not surprising, we think there is a nearly infinite number of interesting, useful topics to discuss. Some … Continue reading
One of the side effects of the growing use of social media by IT industry analysts and analyst relations (AR) is a pending sense of doom that we are going to get overwhelmed by too… much… stuff. This certainly came … Continue reading
By Carter Lusher, Strategist One of the worst things that can happen to a vendor sales representative or a vendor executive is being blindsided by a piece of information that they did not know existed – but should have known. … Continue reading
Analysts who blog versus Bloggers who analyze
Posted on May 31, 2008 by sagecircle
By Carter Lusher, Strategist Last week’s Forrester Analyst Relations Council Panel on “Analyst Relations 2.0″ was fun and interesting. There was quite a bit of diversity of opinion on the panel with KCG’s Bill Hopkins playing the self-described anti-blog/anti-Web 2.0 … Continue reading →