The Rise of the Social Media Curator The Internet is a mess. There’s so much information out there that it’s a blessing we can find anything at all. Sure, you can ask Google for a hint, as long as you know what you’re looking for. But when it comes to discovering new and inspiring things on the Internet, Google isn’t helping at all. Which is why we need filters. Whether they are posting to a standalone site that brings together the best content of the Web, or constantly tweeting links to the information that you want to see, these curators spend their time as the Internet’s funnel and educate you as to what’s happening in the areas you care about most. Maria Popova is a cultural curator and writer at Wired, the Atlantic and many other publications. When you think about the amount of information on the Internet, a social media curator’s job seems impossible. So while the Internet may seem big and scary, curation is happening all around us. by Thomas Samph www.grovo.com @twsamph Connect: Authored by: Thomas Samph
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Text Analytics, The Difficult Future You Can’t Avoid Looking at Text Analytics by Area of Expertise (Thoughts from Sentiment Analytics Symposium 2012) Sentiment Analysis is a terribly difficult problem. The problem is in defining the problem - the input is the problem - but you can’t avoid it, IT IS the future, and I’m very optimistic about it! Professor Bing Liu started off the Sentiment Analytics Symposium yesterday with the statement above and I couldn’t agree more. What was a surprise to me though, given that text analytics is so clearly “the future”, was that only three ‘traditional’ marketing research industry firms were represented at the conference (Toluna, Survey Analytics, and my firm Anderson Analytics‘ - OdinText). I’ll be honest and tell you that I attend/speak at different conferences for different reasons. In a growing and competitive field like text analytics I don’t expect to learn too much about what other vendors are doing. Of course one thing most text analytics vendors are willing to share are case studies.
Market Research in the Mobile World® International Conference & Exhibition Blog à part Je me suis levé ce matin avec une petite musique dans l’oreille, un son de trompette très pur, léger, lointain, finement articulé. Aussitôt empreint de remords. Ce remords sommeille en moi depuis le concert de Al Orkesta de Joe Higham en mars… 2009 à la Ferme du Biéreau, à Louvain-La-Neuve…. Il y a beaucoup de bons musiciens dans notre pays, de groupes qui nous font du bien, et de concerts dont nous repartons contents. Et nous savons à peu près le degré de plaisir, et, de temps à autre, de bonheur auquel nous pouvons nous attendre quand nous connaissons les musiciens. Mais parfois survient un subtil miracle. Open Up A Secret World: Using Blogging For Market Research Posted March 2, 2010by Malcolm Baker, Founding Partner, BRS Group, BRS Group Article This global study on women's handbags removed the interviewer from the information-gathering process. Women were invited to blog about certain topics with more depth and detail than in a traditional interview setting. The sound of one hand clapping...Given the roots of our profession, it is natural that we rarely call into question the primacy of our part in the information-gathering process. But what if we find a way to remove ourselves from this process? Our BagThe answer, from a recent project, is data full of intimacy and emotional content and rich in insight. We took part in a global study commissioned by Greet Sterenberg of wejane.com, an informal network of qualitative practitioners. We posted topics for women to cover in three chunks, giving respondents two days to reply to each chunk. The Blog: A Modern Day Confessional These blogs opened up a rich, protean world. The bag as means of control.
LE DIFFUSEUR POETIQUE B2B Connex Supplier Portal Should your business get serious about gaming – Deloitte Tech Trends 2012 Gaming gets serious Gamification is about taking the essence of games – fun, play and passion – and applying it to real-world, non-game situations. In a business setting, that means designing solutions using gaming principles in everything from back-office tasks and training to sales management and career counseling. Game mechanics lie at the heart of gamification. For example, achievement levels, point-tracking and bonuses are ways for desired activities to be recognized and rewarded. Leaderboards and progression indicators can steer individuals to reach the next tier of performance. The “so what” for business is not any single one of these items. One desired outcome of gamification is engagement – getting stakeholders passionately and deliberately involved with your organization. Gamification can also enhance transparency and compliance, since games almost always operate within a well-defined set of rules. The potential of gamification for the enterprise is likely to grow with time.
Eucalyptus Grows in the Elastic Cloud | Innovation | Technology By James O. Grundvig Created: May 10, 2012 Last Updated: May 13, 2012 “What’s bigger than open source?” Marten Mickos asked a friend, during his year off after leaving the Silicon Valley data server giant, Sun Microsystems. The answer surprised him. Inspired, the Finnish native and former CEO of MySQL AB, the second largest open source company in the world, began searching for his next venture. Cloud computing refers to anything that is based on the Web, which includes online collaboration tools, streaming services that do not require materials to be downloaded, and Web-based storage. In early 2010, Marten Mickos met the founding team at Eucalyptus Systems. And what does that imply? So an elastic architecture is a cloud infrastructure that allows the client to define its scope, data processing, and storage needs to scale up or down in size. Those are not the back office servers that firms have been used to manage their IT systems. Eucalyptus’s On-Premise Cloud Strategy MM: Yes. James O.
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