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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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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Two weeks ago, I told you I planned to do a series of interviews with the 10 most influential people in social media I could find. Doing an interview with 10 people, even a relatively short/fun one, takes a lot more time than I thought. I’m really an unstructured data analyst during the day and [...]

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I saw an article the other day on “How to Pimp your LinkedIn Profile”. As I’m a big LinkedIn fan it made me stop and think about what the ideal amount of information on a profile is.
In the past, partly for SEO, I have taken the defacto approach that more info is better. But now [...]

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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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To Recruiters and Next Gen Market Research Job Seekers in my Network

It’s late November, conference season is over, and so I’m glad to be back in the office with nothing to concentrate on but work. Looking at my recent collection of lanyards I sometimes wonder about the ROI of conferences I attend. I know I’ve [...]

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And I thought I knew a lot about about social media…
I’ve received a few emails from folks who couldn’t make it to the Crab Shell in Stamford CT last night for NGMR’s first MeetUp, asking how it was. To be honest I had absolutely no expectations to begin with. If 3-5 would have shown up [...]

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Fairfield County Marketing Researcher Happy Hour
Several of the NGMR local subgroups have had and/or talked about having actual local Meetups. The Fairfield County NGMR Subgroup is no exception. Thanks in no small part to AJ Keirans of pureprofile we’re finally going to meet.
AJ has called the Crab Shell in Stamford CT, and let them know [...]

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Stamford Tech Meetup
On the advice from a good friend in silicon valley, who also attends these events for the same reason, I went to my first Stamford Tech Meetup last night. We’re both looking for good developers, an increasingly difficult find.
Tech Meetups are Meetups organized online at a local place like a bar. I hadn’t [...]

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