Blog Archives - Barry Hurd

Competitive Intelligence and Online Privacy, NSA Leaks from Edward Snowden

Archive, Big Data, Blog, Different Media Types, Online Analytics / By Barry

In preparation for attending the Privacy Identify Innovation conference here in Seattle with peers, my recent conversations have been around the kind of data that Edward Snowden and related NSA leaks stirred up. These conversations live in another dimension almost as spooky as the Twilight Zone. While the NSA is in the center of this […]

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Big Data Brokers and Open Data Sources

2021, Big Data, Blog, Different Media Types, Online Analytics, Smart Data / By Barry

The current state of the world is that we almost every action and fact we take are tracked and recorded; ranging from mobile phone usage, driving behaviors, social networks, and our shopping transactions. Due to the nature of data and the fact that it exists in an invisible layer that most of us don’t comprehend,

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Seattle News and Social Media

2021, Archive, Blog, Social Media, Social Media Training / By Barry

As part of an on-going research study I’ve been monitoring and comparing all sorts of different media sources ranging from public television, stock markets, and local Seattle news. One of the interesting examples I can share for the local community happens to be the local news scene, an interesting mixture of news and syndication channels

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Online Competitive Intelligence – Using Twitter to Find Competitor’s Clients

2021, Blog, Online Analytics, Social Media / By Barry

If you want a helpful tip on proving social media ROI and developing a business model with online competitive intelligence, keep reading! This article is going to detail a fundamental insight to using Twitter analysis to create sets of priceless data that can be used for marketing, sales, product development, and future strategy.

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What is Social Business Intelligence?

2021, Archive, Blog, Different Media Types, Social Media Training / By Barry

Before I can answer the question of “what is social business intelligence?“, we need to think about some of the ramifications of what I’m talking about at an individual level. The reality of the digital world is that a majority of our actions and relationships have dual lives. We create information we can comprehend and

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What is Transmedia?

2021, Archive, Blog, Different Media Types, Social Media Training / By Barry

What is Transmedia? Transmedia is simply a form of storytelling where multiple platforms tie together to tell a common story. A pop-culture and historical example includes television series such as Heroes; where a comic, action figure, web series, and television show all intertwined to tell different portions of the same story. Another good example

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Online Market Intelligence – using online data to explore growth opportunities

2021, Blog, Online Analytics, Social Media Training / By Barry

Regardless of what you are trying to do, the essence of when you do it is often one of the most critical elements of a successful strategy. In the stock market world I would refer to the saying “buy low, sell high” and remind you that there are critical points in time that your plan,

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