February 2005: VNU (owner of ACNielsen and Nielsen Media Research) acquires an equity interest in Israeli-based Trendum, a leader in media and linguistic analysis technologies. September 2005: Trendum acquires BuzzMetrics; the new company adopted the BuzzMetrics name. January 17, 2006: BuzzMetrics acquires Intelliseek. The combined company, BuzzMetrics, Inc., will operate under the Nielsen BuzzMetrics brand. [...]
Mike Sigal, co-Founder and CEO of the Guidewire Group, has posted the following comment in response to my criticism and questions about the Group’s recent survey: Hi Constantin, Thanks for the critiques. Our goal as a research firm is to provide information that will explain emerging technology markets, so your feedback will help us develop [...]
Try to say this with a straight face: The vast majority of companies (89%) are either blogging now or planning to blog soon. Are you LOL? ROTFL? Anyway, the staggering, unbelievable, hard to believe “statistic” is one of the results of a Guidewire Group “survey” called Blogging in the Enterprise, sponsored by iUpload. To its [...]
Ketchum, in partnership with PR blogger Klaus Eck (econcon), has published a Top 100 German Business Blogs, based on data from Blogstats.de (which is a German Technorati, if I understand correctly). Memo to Ketchum bloggers: this is something interesting you could write about. Anything that could bridge the information gap between the English-speaking business blogosphere [...]
MWW‘s new media strategies practice (aka Blog 360°) has a new name, DialogueMedia (long live the CamelCase!), a new director, and a corporate blog, called Open The Dialogue. The announcement was blogged by the firm’s CEO, Michael Kempner.
Dominic Timms writes in today’s Guardian (reg. required) that firms are “in the dark over blog threat,” according to “the Blog Relations PR Survey”: Nearly two-thirds of businesses have not woken up to the threat posed to their brands and reputations by disgruntled bloggers, a survey of PR professionals revealed today. While more than 60% [...]
Steve Wilson, Senior Director of Global Web Communications at McDonald’s and a key person in the project of introducing blogging at McDo, has started a personal weblog. Welcome! (Hat tip: Alan L. Nelson)