My Thoughts on Forrester, Analysts, and Blogging

A minor tempest in the research industry teapot erupted today on Twitter and elsewhere. A SageCircle blog post entitled “Forrester tells analysts no more personal blogs with interesting implications for analyst relations” sparked a fair amount of dialog about Forrester and the rights and independence of analysts. Here are a few thoughts from the inside–by Augie Ray, Sr. Analyst of Social Computing at Forrester.

Is Twitter Fading? For Marketers It’s not Twitter that Matters but Twitterers

If you saw the headlines yesterday, you might be excused for thinking Twitter was in decline: “Twitter’s growth slows dramatically,” “Twitter popularity declines, growth slows down,” and “Is Twitter ‘Traffic’ Tanking?” But is the story the number of Twitterers or the habits of those Twitterers?