News from the companies of social media analysis.
Companies and services
- 12 February - BuzzLogic announced a strategic alliance with Walnut Hill Media. The partnership, which includes a minority investment by Walnut Hill, will focus on business development in the advertising and media business. press release
- Software updates: Trackur
- Dan Vetras joins Visible Technologies as CEO. Vetras was previously president and CEO of Talisma. Former CEO Adam Selig transitions to a new role as divisional president of strategic alliances. press release
- George Emmanuel joins EmPower Research as sales director, US. Emmanuel was previously the western regional services sales & marketing executive at Computer Associates. press release
- Pew Internet & American Life Project released Twitter and status updating (PDF). The key finding in the memo is that 11% of US Internet users use Twitter or other services (potentially including social networking sites) to update status messages.
- Razorfish released Digital Mom (PDF), a report developed with CafeMom on technology usage by mothers. via Guy Kawasaki
- Nielsen introduced Economic Current (PDF), a new monthly report on retail trends and consumer confidence globally, with regional analysis and country breakouts.
- 18 February (London) - Measurementcamp, 10:00 AM at Hill & Knowlton.
- 18–19 February (San Francisco) - Predictive Analytics World
- 19 February - Collective Intellect is presenting a free webinar, Social Media Monitoring: Market Research 2.0, 5:00 PM EST (GMT -5). The session features CI's Dean Westervelt. watch
- 19–20 March (Saskatoon) - SaskInteractive Summit09. (I'm speaking at this one.)
- 30–31 March (Paris) - Marketing 2.0
