Reading List for January 30, 2008

At Technobabble 2.0 Jonny Bentwood posted Aberdeen Group - guns for hire? as a response to a Wall Street Journal article questioning Aberdeen’s business model. Interesting comments including one from Aberdeen’s CEO.
Barbara and I are debating the coverage of emerging technologies in the Tekrati Keeping Tabs post Gartner is not the only analyst on emerging tech [...]

Reading List for January 24, 2008 – Social Media Index, transparency, too cool for school

On my personal blog, Food Notebook, I use to have a regular feature every Wednesday that highlighted interesting items from various sources (for example Media Roundup - 8/22/07). I always had lots of content to pull from and it was fun to do. I anticipated doing the something similar here on the SageCircle blog. Alas, [...]

Forrester’s Charlene Li on 60 Minutes this Sunday, January 13th, to discuss Facebook

Congratulations to Charlene for this plum media opportunity. This is very positive for the social media industry as Charlene is a knowledgeable observer who has a knack for giving the press clear and concise sound bites that educate without sensationalizing the topic at hand. Check out “Facebook (and me) on 60 Minutes” for details. I [...]

Hill and Knowlton’s Tech Decision Makers Study

Interesting press release from our friends at H&K on Industry Analysts, Print Media Leading Influencers in IT Decisions. This concerns the nearly annual study H&K commissions to interview (much better and more expensive than a web survey) IT buyers about where they get their information and advice on purchasing decisions.

The Curse of Knowledge

Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike is an essay by Janet Rae-Dupree in today’s Sunday New York Times Business section. The first paragraph is what really caught my attention: “It’s a pickle of a paradox: As our knowledge and expertise increase, our creativity and ability to innovate tend to taper off. Why? Because the walls of [...]