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Yesterday we tracked SAP TechEd08 using BuzzGain and had a very interesting set of discussions on twitter that were spawned. I mentioned clearly that social media is more than Twitter and the main reason I did not discuss the other metrics was due to the length of the post. Still, there are a series of [...]

Jeremiah talked about what’s on the mind of several startup Marketing VP’s and Venture Capitalists yesterday. We get requests daily from many of the same on another question that’s top of mind. The magic Million users number.
So using BuzzGain Analytics dashboard, we the “All Star Cast” of Web 2.0 companies – StumbleUpon, Upcoming, Delicious, Flickr, [...]

Retweet Want to really estimate the power of an influencer – good,bad and otherwise? Lets take a case study.
Our friend Jeremiah Owyang, digital media influencer and analyst at Forrester posted a blog entry on Retweet and the power of word of mouth. To summarize:

[Information within Microblogging communities like Twitter encourage rapid word of mouth –of [...]

Blog World Expo recently concluded their Las Vegas Confab with over 2000 participants (includes bloggers, speakers, exhibitors, event staff, etc). There were 256 speakers and panelists. We did some quick analysis of BWE08 using our solution to give you some interesting metrics and some questions to consider.
1. Approximately 43% of BlogWorldExpo attendees are users of [...]

Marshall Kirkpatrickidentified 7 social media consultantsthat deliver tangible value. There are some great folks in the list and for sure, there are several more that do add tangible value to their clients. In fact according to ourTwitter analytics on BuzzGain, there about 1.2 Million user accounts.
This includes accounts that have been registered, and have at [...]

Chris had a very interesting post on how does the web define authority.
In that he questions “It would be easy to bog ourselves down in definitions of the word “authority” itself. In this case, let’s agree that the working definition as it pertains to this topic is: a blog or website or even an individual [...]

We spoke about the echo chamber that retweeting on Twitter does a while ago. Well, on the same topic but a totally different reason Retweet is stupid argues Dave. Because its a vote of confidence on that particular tweet.
The problem I want to address is one when you get a Retweet gets taken out of [...]

This post primarily discusses corporate uses and engagement with Twitter, unlike how most people use it to keep up with friends and discuss “What are you doing”? The # of companies on twitter is growing dramatically from fewer than 5 in 2007 to over 500 in 2008.
Given that twitter has about 1.3 million registered accounts, [...]

Trending topic on Twitter
While not completely convinced of the value of a trending topic on twitter, besides an ego boost, its nevertheless a very question that we get asked by a lot of customers. It is usually asked in one of two ways:
“How many tweets does it take in a given time period to be [...]

Much as the technology industry is claimed to be an early adopter of all things social, Web 2.0 and community, its not making as quick progress as people think it is.
SAP TechEd08 is the annual SAP developer conference, is currently taking place in Berlin. Our good friend Mike Prosceno (who authors a good blog in [...]