Session

Blogs, Chat Rooms, Wikis, Oh My! The Yellow Brick Road to Online Market Intelligence

Howard Kaushansky, Founder and President, Umbria, Inc.

Track: Marketing and Community
Date: Monday, April 16
Time: 9:00am - 9:50am
Location: 2002

Imagine scrutinizing each of the Web’s 55 million blogs, 100,000 message boards, and innumerable wikis; and analyzing language to extract emerging trends, consumer opinions, key competitive strategies, segmented by demographic.

Unfiltered, real-time market intelligence has been the Holy Grail for major companies. The advent of new technology and the exploding world of the blogosphere has made that goal attainable.

This Marketing 2.0 session will draw on examples to examine:

  • How the artful blend of technology and analytics paves the yellow brick road to targeted marketing
  • Wading through the tornado of spam
  • Know your blogger! Male? Female? Gen Y? Baby Boomer?
  • Mining and measuring the online grapevine
  • Do’s and don’ts of working with a blogging community
  • Successful case studies

SPONSORS

Diamond Sponsor

  • Etelos

Platinum Sponsors

  • Adobe Systems, Inc.
  • AOL
  • Coghead
  • Cognizant
  • WebEx

Gold Sponsors

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Ask
  • Cambrian House
  • Citrix Systems
  • Curl
  • eBay
  • Fast Search
  • Google
  • Hinchcliffe & Company
  • IBM
  • Impetus
  • Intel
  • Nokia Nseries
  • PayPal
  • Vidoop
  • Web2corp
  • Yahoo!

Silver Sponsors

  • Coradiant
  • Dapper
  • Denodo
  • effective UI
  • Egnyte
  • eSnips
  • Fatdoor
  • Fotango
  • JackBe
  • Juniper Networks
  • Kapow Technologies
  • Layered Technologies, Inc.
  • LongJump
  • Microsoft
  • MindTouch
  • n software
  • Octopz
  • OrangeHRM
  • Radialpoint
  • Reply
  • Salesforce.com
  • Socialtext
  • Sonnenschein Venture Technology Group
  • StrikeIron
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Tellme
  • ThinkFree
  • Venyo
  • ZCubes
  • Zoho

Launch Pad Sponsors

  • O'Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures
  • Startup Capital

Media Partners

  • ACM Queue
  • Blogher
  • Business Management
  • Dr. Dobb's Journal
  • Entrepreneur
  • Fast Company
  • Federated Media
  • Information Week
  • InfoWorld
  • ITtoolbox
  • MSDN
  • Network Computing
  • Nikkei Net
  • Online Publishers Association
  • Red Herring
  • Revenue Magazine
  • Technology Review
  • Topix.net
  • Wall Street & Technology
  • Webware
  • Wired Magazine

CONTACTS

Sponsors & Exhibitors
For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities, contact Paige Finkelman at

Press and Media
For media-related inquiries, contact Dawn Applegate at

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