Impact of social media is overestimated in the short-term and overestimated in the long-term: what was the message from the Oxford Social Media Conference last week. I was lucky to

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The discussion in last week’s webinar focussed on the idea that Gartner’s response to the temporary decline in its market has been to cut costs and to focus on the

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At 11 am Eastern time we’re repeating our webinar to review recent changes at Gartner. It’s been interesting to see the feedback we’ve been getting from folk over the last

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Twitter users should not join that AWESOME site that gets you TONS of followers

Readers of this blog have excellent judgment on many things, but I’ve been surprised that a few of my followers on twitter are signing up for follow-swapping sites. I had

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Canalys, the UK-headquartered specialist in channels to market, is following a number of other analyst firms in launching newsletters and other tools that allow direct marketing of reports and events.

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What a difference a year makes. In 2008 Forrester was the winner of the Analyst Firm of the Year award. However, since then we’ve seen a different tone to the

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This month’s IIAR forum will discuss ‘AR in a credit crunch’ (details below). It’s notable that the panelists aren’t AR managers, but analysts. It reflects the widespread expectation that professionals

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In the second of two podcasts Ed Gyurko, European analyst relations manager at Tech Mahindra discusses the Gartner Magic Quadrant with Duncan Chapple, managing director of Lighthouse Analyst Relations. In

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