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Analytics Magazine, Focus on Forecasting
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Analytics Magazine, Focus on Forecasting

The July/August issue of Analytics Magazine cover enterprise forecasting. A tricky area I spent much time working in. This magazine is always a practical place...

Who Are Your Twitter Followers?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Who Are Your Twitter Followers?

GigaOhm does a good job providing a case study of how to best understand your Twitter followers. This starts to answer a question I have had recently: Just who...

Even the Tech Sophisticated get Phished
From The Eponymous Pickle

Even the Tech Sophisticated get Phished

A cautionary tale about password use. Cory Doctorow gets Phished. Cory Doctorow: Persistence Pays Parasites

Private Label
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Private Label

UPI article on the increasing use of private label by cost conscious consumers. Useful statistics.

Nielsen and McKinsey Social Venture
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nielsen and McKinsey Social Venture

A joint venture that links several groups I know well: " ... Nielsen and management consultancy McKinsey & Company have formed a joint venture to help clients improve...

StoreFrontBackTalk
From The Eponymous Pickle

StoreFrontBackTalk

I often quote the StoreFrontBacktalk site. Evan Schuman does a great job tracking the technologies that continue to change the world of retail and E-commerce.some...

Item Search with Xyggy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Item Search with Xyggy

I received this recently, just started to take a look at it, intriguing paradigm: " ... Thank-you for the post on Bayesian Information Retrieval .. The Xyggy technology...

Pepsi and the Next FourSquare
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pepsi and the Next FourSquare

Have examined packages like Foursquare and there are some fundamental problems with their use for marketing plays. Enterprises like Pepsi are trying to influence...

Google Docs Add OCR
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Docs Add OCR

Have not tried it yet but OCR conversions to text for Google documents is a nice additions. In particular for incoming faxes that I would like to store away and...

UxSuite Discovers Unforseen Usage Patterns
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UxSuite Discovers Unforseen Usage Patterns

Colleague Aylin Koca of the TU/e Department of Industrial Design reports on the establishment of her startup: UXsuite. See some of her previous work posted onWhat...

Unilever Plans to Double Digital Spending
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Unilever Plans to Double Digital Spending

In Adage: " ... Unilever will double spending on digital marketing this year, Chief Marketing Officer Keith Weed said in a seminar today at the International Advertising...

Tom Davenport's Masterclass
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tom Davenport's Masterclass

In SASCOM a good report on Tom Davenport's Masterclass. Nicely done, though not too much more than an outlne. Recall that Davenport used our enterprise analytics...

Tobii Glasses Announced
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Tobii Glasses Announced

Nicely done, in particular the visual business intelligence that is included. See the short video in the link below for a demonstration. " ... Tobii Glasses ?

Social Media and Small Business
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Social Media and Small Business

Useful short piece in E-Commerce Times:" ... So how can something with that much influence be easy and unintimidating for a small-business owner to use? There's...

Geofencing
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Geofencing

Geofencing is a kind of virtual alert system based on a geographical line or lines drawn on a map. So if you wanted to determine if a person entered a particular...

This Blog and How it Relates to What I Do
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This Blog and How it Relates to What I Do

This blog in various forms was initially established to communicate to innovation center visitors starting around 2002. This blog's readers include executives and...

Openness Audit
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Openness Audit

Heard Charlene Li talk today introducing concepts in her new book: Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Change the Way You Lead. Some excellent points. In...

Stories Sell
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Stories Sell

In Roger Dooley's Neuromarketing blog: Why Stories Sell. With some links to previous posts on the subject. Certainly they do sell, and are much more memorable than...

Scented Spaces
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Scented Spaces

Discovered! An excellent site and scented spaces blog by Tracy Pepe on scent design. I am following, check it out. See also her recent post on CPG scent branding...

Social Media Terms
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Social Media Terms

A useful glossary of social media terms. Terms in play are always changing, worth knowing.
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