Jeremiah Owyang

Tekrati, Altimeter Group, SageCircle and Edelman join together July 21st for a roundtable discussion, "The Impact of Social on the Analyst Industry." Please suggest discussion points and register early for this free webinar. Space is limited. Twitter hashtag #socialanalyst.

This one hour webcast was jam packed with information and to help make it easier to digest it was broken down into three main topics: 8 Stages of Listening, Developing a Listening Program and Identifying Specific Business Objectives. Below are a recap and the social media lessons learned from Jeremiah Owyang.

This regular monthly (or more) column on the Forbes CMO network (@ForbesCMO) isn’t reporting, but instead will marry industry level insight and provide pragmatic advice. After I post industry insights at Forbes, I’ll also cross-post or point to it from the Web Strategy blog so you don’t miss out on anything.

Hailing from enterprise web management, a former Industry Analyst, Jeremiah consults and speaks on the topics of emerging technologies for brand related customer strategies.

Analyst Jeremiah Owyang is one of social media's always-on personalities - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal.Owyang believes that companies who understand the social media benefits best first have to undergo an internal shift in culture. To be successful with customers, you first have to be successful with your employees in terms of issues and problems they may face.

"More than 100,000 unique visitors come to his blog each month - that's more people than visit competing analyst firms Gartner and IDC's websites each month, combined. His skilled use of Twitter has built him a readership of more than 50,000 followers. That's unprecedented visibility in social media conversations for a professional analyst. While analysts have traditionally stood apart from the messy fray of democratic conversation online, Owyang is a leader in a new trend of engagement and broader listening."

Mia Dand recaps today's panel at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco in which Peter Kim, Charlene Li & Jeremiah Owyang discuss the four reasons that social media implementation efforts fail.

At SXSW, this year, I interviewed Jeremiah Owyang about Social Media and his predictions for this space. I pulled this from my hard drive to share today because it helps validate the future of our podcasting community.

I caught up with Owyang last week on the phone to talk about what he's up to at Altimeter and what research firms are going to have to do to retain top talent.