Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research™

Next Gen Market Research Oldest and Most Active Online Networking Group for Analytics Professionals
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Editor of KDnuggets just conducted an analysis of all the top Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science groups on LinkedIn with at least 7,000 members. He found that even though membership is strict and we have a zero [...]

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2012 Most Read NGMR Blog Posts

From Text Analytics to Market Research Awards and Predictions, 2012 was a busy year within the Next Gen Market Research community. Below are the 15 most popular blog posts of the year in rank order.

Practical Sentiment Analysis and Lies
The Year of Text Analytics
Next Gen Market Research C-Suite Predictions
Text Analysis of [...]

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Several Impressive Nominations - Three Winners

Each year the 20,000 Next Gen Market Research group members are asked to nominate the firms and individuals they believe are most innovative. This year our eight Regional Moderators (The NGMR Board of Advisors) carefully considered nominations from 30 firms and several talented market research professionals across three categories.

This week at [...]

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Have you been given bad social media advice?
(10 Top Social Media Influencers Series Part VII)
In regard to social media, many of us can agree to disagree. Sometimes, especially in relation to PR, it seems ‘experts’ outnumber clients. While I believe data and text mining hold the key to unlocking a large part of the question [...]

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14 Most Tired Social Media Buzz Words
(10 Top Social Media Influencers Part VI)
I asked our uber influential social media friends what buzzwords they’re most tired of hearing. Below is an alphabetical list of their top most annoying social media related buzz words along with accompanying definition (via urban dictionary). “Synergy” received the most votes from [...]

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Top 10 Influencers Reveal Their Pet Peeves
(10 Top Social Media Influencers Part V)
While I don’t think there’s one right or wrong way to do social media, there certainly are some things that many of us agree can be annoying. Today, our influencers share their biggest social media pet peeves. Most tended to fall into one [...]

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Social Media Sites and Secrets - Top 10 Influencers reveal cool sites, secrets and evolving strategies…
(10 Top Social Media Influencers Part IV)
Social Media Influencers are among the first to discover new sites and to adjust strategies. In the first post of this series, we already noticed that a couple of our influencers had switched away [...]

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So You Want to be a Social Media Influencer?
(TOP 10 SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS INTERVIEWS PART III)
Social Media Do’s
What’s the one important thing you need to know if you want to be successful in social media?
There are no rules. There’s only what works and what doesn’t work for you
- Guy Kawasaki
What you want to accomplish [...]

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What it’s like to Be a Social Media Influencer
(10 Top Social Media Influencers Part II)

Today I asked my esteemed social media friends about how they first realized they had become influential and what it’s like to work with social media on a daily basis.
-Guy Kawasaki
Realized might be an influencer when… Car companies started sending [...]

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