Social Media Analysis News, 4 July 2008 (The Net-Savvy Executive)

News from the companies of social media analysis.

Companies and services

30 June - Filtrbox announced (PDF) their public release. Accounts range from free to $100/month for a 6-user team account.
3 July - The team behind BlogMeter released Memesphere, an Italian memetracker. via MediaMeter

People

30 June - Converseon announced that Mike Moran will join the company as Chief Strategist on 1 September. An IBM Distinguished Engineer, Moran is the author of Do It Wrong Quickly: How the Web Changes the Old Marketing Rules and co-author of Search Engine Marketing, Inc.
30 June - Visible Technologies announced the addition of Rowland Hanson to the company's advisory board.
Charlene Li announced her upcoming departure from Forrester Research. Rachel Happe left IDC for Mzinga. And you know what they say about things happening in threes... (Update: It's in the open now. Peter Kim is also leaving Forrester.)

New research and papers

BlogMeter released a study of the Italian automative market, based on online messages posted in the fourth quarter of 2007.
1 July - Paul Dunay released the results of a survey of B2B marketers, "Reputation Management for New Media Survey: How Ready Are You?" (PDF).
2 July - Philip Sheldrake released The Social Web Analytics eBook 2008 (PDF). Sheldrake is a director at Racepoint Group, like Digital Influence Group a part of W2 Group.

Events

9 July - Nielsen Online is presenting a free webinar, Meet the Author based on EVP Pete Blackshaw's new book, Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers Tell 3000, 9 July at 2:00 PM EDT (GMT -4).
9 July (London) - MeasurementCamp IV, 9:30 AM at Hotwire PR, 33/41 Dallington Street.
17 July - Dow Jones & Company is presenting a free webinar, The Impact of Web 2.0 on Competitive Intelligence, 17 July at 11:00 AM EDT (GMT-4). The session features Knowledge inForm's Cynthia Cheng Correia.

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