February, 2008 Archive

Who owns social media?

Our friends at Cymfony, now TNS Media Intelligence/Cymfony (proving a theory of mine that all CGM companies will ultimately be acquired) have just released a new survey of 60 marketers at companies in North America, France, and the U.K.. The report concludes that when it comes to social media, marketing agencies are “ill equipped,” to [...]

Social Networking: what’s written on IT’s Facebook wall

A recent Network World survey supports what PJA’s second wave of original research with ITtoolbox showed late last year: IT professionals are increasingly taking up the tools of social networking – LinkedIn, MySpace, Digg, Stumbleupon, Facebook, etc. – and using them for business purposes. According to the new survey, nearly half of IT professionals use [...]

Life Scientists and Social Media: feeling the love

I’m happy to announce that we have just completed our first research study with BioInformatics, LLC, a PJA research partner with an online forum of more than 30,000 scientists.
The study topic? Life scientists and social media.
And what did we find? More than I expected, certainly. Here are some of the highlights:

Beware of Pyramids

If you’ve wondered why that old pyramid hierarchy slide continues to appear long after it’s been supplanted in many companies’ operations, CNET Business has just released some great research on word of mouth marketing and how everyone plays some influential role in spreading a word. As conversations with a number of CXOs over the last [...]