What’s new in the social media analysis industry
- Matthew Hurst, Nielsen BuzzMetric’s Director of Science and Innovation and co-creator of BlogPulse, moves to Microsoft’s Live Labs
- Cymfony was bought by UK-based research giant Taylor Nelson Sofres (via PaidContent).
- The recent Forrester Research report on the ROI of Blogging has received critical reviews from KD Paine and David Phillips
- KD Paine calls “on the PR industry and the media that cover the industry to raise and address the issues of accuracy and transparency in media evaluation”
- Nathan Gilliat announced that Social Target’s Guide to Social Media Analysis will be available in April 2007
- The program for the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (Boulder, March 26-27, 2007) is now available online
- Two papers that will be presented at the conference are available online: Modeling Trust and Influence in the Blogosphere Using Link Polarity and Feeds That Matter: A Study of Bloglines Subscriptions
- Social media is the focus of the first two research projects of the recently launched Center for Dynamic Data Analysis at Rutgers University; the center is funded by the Department of Homeland Security (source: UMBC eBiquity Blog)
- Biz360 has announced a new metric for measuring the impact of blogs
- CIC and Edelman China have published a white paper titled Word of Health: China. Listening to and learning from Internet Word of Mouth discussions about the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries
- Last, but not least: the NewPR Wiki has a resources page on Social Media Measurement.
