Social Media Analysis News, 12 September 2008

News from the companies of social media analysis.

Companies and services

• 5 September - Naspers (JNB:NPN) acquired a majority stake in social media aggregator Afrigator. via RWW

• 8 September - FirstRain announced that they've signed their 100th institutional client.

• 9 September - Jim Schroer joined the board of Networked Insights (PDF).

• 5 September - Katie Paine released Measuring the Transparency of Environmental Sustainability Reporting (PDF), a review of information on Fortune 50 company sustainabiility efforts as reported on the companies' web sites. KDPaine & Partners and BYU's Brad Rawlins collaborated on the study.

• 9 September - Nielsen Online released Listening to Consumers in a Highly Regulated Environment: How Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Can Leverage Consumer-Generated Media. The paper reports the results of a study on reportable adverse events, in which Nielsen found only one message that met FDA reporting criteria in 500 analyzed healthcare messages.

  Nielsen also announced the first edition of their Monthly Automotive Industry Overview this week.

• "What Should Blog Search Look Like?" (PDF), by Marti Hearst, Matthew Hurst and Susan Dumais. via Matt Hurst

• 18 September (Stockholm) - Twingly will present their analysis of blog coverage of the Swedish signal intelligence law (FRA) as part of a free seminar hosted by the Social Democrats. Reservations are required.

• 18 September - Semantic Exchange is presenting a free webinar, New Developments in Semantic Technology for the Enterprise, 18 September at 12:00 noon EDT (GMT -4). Project10X’s Mills Davis and ESTC’s Alexander Wahler will preview the latest developments and application case examples.

• 19–20 September (Athens, GA) - Connect 2008 at UGA's Grady College.

• 30 September - Visible Technologies is presenting a free webinar, Is Your Search Engine Reputation Helping or Hurting Your Brand?, 30 September at 1:00 PM EDT (GMT -4). Aberdeen Group's Jeff Zabin introduces the concept of online reputation in the first in a series of three events.

• 15–17 October (Portsmouth, NH) - IPR's 6th Summit on Measurement.

• Workshop on Modeling, Managing, and Mining of Evolving Social Networks (PDF), 29 March 2009 (Shanghai). In conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering ICDE’09.

• International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2009), 20–24 April 2009 (Madrid). Tracks on Social Networks and Web 2.0 and data mining should be of interest.

• ICWSM 2009, 17–20 May 2009 (San Jose, CA).

• Senior Director of Partnership and Digital Marketing, GMR Entertainment (New York)