Where you all are
Blogs don’t give their readers much of a feeling of community: even though hundreds of people stop by to read, it’s hard to get…
Heard in a San José boardroom
On Friday I hosted a lunchtime seminar for several Silicon Valley analyst relations professionals to assess the challenges that the META-Gartner acquisition produces, both…
Needed: An Ideal "Analyst Relations Process Model"
While the idea of a Public Relations Process Model has existed for almost 20 years, little public work has been done to discuss and…
Bundling outside the English-speaking world
I had a great comment today from an analyst in Germany, who says to me: “You point out that companies like bundles of research…
Scientific averages of wild guesses
Techtel’s IT spending forecasts came our way today. It’s a fascinating piece of empiricism. Techtel’s forecast averages estimates, by a panel of interested individuals,…
Ovum buys RHK Research
RHK, the $4.5m analyst house following the global telecom industry, has been bought by Ovum in the last hour. RHK is one of the…
After GigaWorld: the future for Forrester
Forrester’s string of successes over the last financial year has been capped off nicely. GigaWorld 2005 attracted 900 participants in Dallas and almost 700…
Ovum Consulting grows 23%
Ovum Consulting will be one topic of interest to Ovum shareholders at its AGM later this month. The firm’s accounts make interesting reading. Despite…
Yahoo’s PR team discovers another way to get AR wrong
Charlene Li’s Blog: Pending Yahoo! personalized search announcement is worth reading. I’ve followed the ‘paper trail’ from Yahoo’s PR agency, and could not resist…
Blogs’ Impact on Analyst Relations
Blogs’ Impact on Analyst Relations reflects some interesting triumphalism from Yahoo’s PRs. I’ve reposted it below. Blogs’ Impact On Analyst Relations Kevin Dugan Expert…
Reputation Management, a view from the University of Zurich
We can recommend readers look at Reputation Constitution, Issues Monitoring and Issues Management in Media Society (published by the University of Zurich). Pleon, the…
Ethics in analyst relations
This is an article I mentioned in a workshop this week, giving IDB’s view of issues confronted by Oracle and the analysts facing it….