Category Archives: Buzz Monitoring

75% Positive Sentiment on Healthcare in the Blogosphere

Like many of us inside the beltway here in DC – you may be glued to your TV, twitter streams and social media monitoring tools trying to gulp down some of the information coming at us about health care reform. Leaving my personal views aside, I thought it might be interesting to gauge the general [...]
Posted in Buzz Monitoring, Sentiment Analysis, Social Media Monitoring

2009 Facebook Adoption Report: 36.5% for Universities vs. 5.5% for Community Colleges

In our last post, we showed how the ‘declining’ Facebook numbers of the college-aged can be explained by removing their school affiliations after graduation, (rather than an act of frustration now that Mom and Dad are friending them!).  We thought it might be interesting to look at the actual Facebook usage on the biggest campuses [...]
Posted in Buzz Monitoring, Content Creation, Digital Word of Mouth...

Tech-Savvy City Ranking July 2009 – Austin Out on Top

In a recent conversation, Gina Blaber of O’Reilly Media asked me about my perception of DC vs. NYC in terms of the populace’s level of tech-savviness. I spend a lot to time in both cities, and am in the process of opening a NYC office as we speak.  I ventured to guess that on a [...]
Posted in Buzz Monitoring, Community Development, Innovation Design...

Facebook Crushes Twitter for Michael Jackson News Sharing by 500%

The purpose of this post isn’t to analyze the virality of Michael Jackon’s death, but to look at the comparative virality of social platforms purely from a users perspective. This nifty little graphic was provided to me by fellow DC Tech Titan and uber-community manager Justin Thorp of Clearspring/Add This. It simply shows what social [...]
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