Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research

Who influences you most on Social Media?

I think occasionally it’s good for market researchers to stop and listen to what the marketers have to say. So I’m planning to reach out to a few of my most influential ‘social media friends’ for an NGMR blog interview.
I’m thinking of folks who are really influential about social [...]

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Social Media Analytics Expert Interview Series: Part 2 of 2
Last week ahead of the Social Media Analytics Summit, Useful Social Media published the second part of their Expert Interview Series (Link below). Incidentally, this week in the current issue of Inside Research (”The Bible of the Market Research Industry”), IR also published the results of [...]

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Klout Stars series highlights top influencers and how they got to where they are today

Social Media Influence measurement leader Klout.com just asked me a couple of questions about how I use social media as part of their continuing Klout Star series.
Measuring online influence arguably is an even more difficult task than understanding what people say [...]

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Today I have the pleasure of interviewing a good friend and fellow Next Gen market Research entrepreneur Kristin Luck.
Many of you who attend the research industry conferences will already know her well. Kristin is President at Decipher, a firm I’ve had the pleasure of working with on a few recent occasions. Prior to Decipher Kristin [...]

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Interesting Q&A about Social Media and Text Analytics

Text Analytics News just published an interesting panel interview on the Social Media Summit website with myself, Dana Jacob who is Sr. Manager of Social Media Insights & Analytics of Yahoo!, Judy Pastor who is Principal Operations Research Manager of American Airlines, Usher Lieberman Director of Corporate [...]

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The challenge for social media analytics is in going deeper not just broader
Business 2 Community did a short interview with me yesterday asking a few questions about social media and text analytics. It’s up on their site now in case you’re interested.

I think social media analytics has a lot of growing up to do. Now [...]

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Market Research CEO’s NGMR predictions on what 2012 has in store
I want to thank everyone who responded to my call for predictions last week. Since then I’ve posted over 77 predictions! I had hoped to synthesize and summarize some of this, but the number and qualitative nature of these predictions makes it difficult. Instead, just [...]

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NGMR Text Analytics Predictions for 2012

Though I’ve been posting predictions all week I haven’t made any myself yet. Today I added my own prediction (at the bottom of this post). I wrote it before reading any of the others I received.
Looking over all the thoughtful prognostications from the ‘who’s who of text analytics’ below, while [...]

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2012 NGMR Recruiter Predictions (Predictions Part III of V)
Continuing with the 2012 NGMR Prediction series I started on New Year’s Day, today I have predictions from a few of the many recruiters who are now active members of the Next Gen Market Research community. I believe they have an important/leading indicator perspective of the front lines [...]

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