We’re a Contender. Collective Intellect was invited to participate in the Forrester Wave on Listening Platforms study, which evaluated offerings from nine companies and scored them according to 76 criteria. We were thrilled to be included in the study. Unfortunately the report is no longer available for download.

For months now we’ve been compiling data on upcoming films as they have been discussed within social media, looking at conversational volume, sentiment, and viewing interest so that we may have a good idea as to what’s going to be hot and what’s going to be a flop. Now it seems that someone else is on the scent as well. Word came to us last week via Mashable, the most obsessive social media news site on the web, that a study had been published demonstrating how Twitter has a high predictive power when it comes to box office performance. Suffice it to say, we weren’t too surprised.

As covered by Wired.com, Greg Rewis and Stephanie Sullivan (@hughart and @theunderwire) tied the knot on April 1st. Throughout the ceremony, family transcribed their vows in tweet form to share their special event with faraway friends, and ultimately the twitterverse. The tech-savvy couple made it possible for you to follow the event as well as send well wishes using the #tweetwed hashtag.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or lack a Gmail account), there’s no doubt you’ve heard of, tested or been genuinely confused by the launch of Google Buzz. One morning in February, I opened my Gmail account and there it was- 35 “buzz” notifications. “I must be popular”, I thought. After clicking into these messages, I realized I was not very popular, I was just inundating myself with more general useless knowledge about people I would have genuinely not heard from until my 20 year high school reunion. AWESOME.

At Collective Intellect, we appreciate that social media messages don’t live in an isolated vacuum; content influences and is influenced by traditional media stories. This is why we view and treat online news content just like your standard social media message. This confluence of traditional and social media also impacts our assessment of the larger [...]

A few weeks ago we interviewed Shel Israel about his new book Twitterville. Twitterville is less a business manual than it is a collection of short success stories. The book is so effective because of the personal, one-on-one style with which it is written. It is both entertaining and informative, and while reading it you [...]

Last week was a first for the little people. The People’s Choice Awards were completely decided on and by “the People.” For the first time, fans were involved at the beginning stages of the show and were able to not only vote, but decide on the nominees. In a post published by AdAge which discussed [...]

Social media continues to evolve. As there is really no way to know how this will affect the future, we present our whimsical take on how social media may change life as we know it in 2010. 1. 2010 will be the Year of Privacy; No one likes it when parents crash the party As [...]

Today marks our first interview with an author who is focused on the ever changing world of social media. Shel Israel is the author of the new book, Twitterville, in which he describes personal accounts of successful Twitter use cases. To read more background on his book, please visit his blog. According to his bio, [...]

Like so many other Coloradans, I love to spend as much of the snowy months in the mountains as possible. How is a girl to decide when and where to go? The proof is in the pudding – snow or no snow will be the deciding factor in whether or not people flock to the [...]