About
Jeremiah Owyang
As a Web Strategist I strive to define and deliver user and community needs, business goals, and web technology to craft and deliver long term successful web programs for companies. To learn more, see the three web strategy spheres.
The focus of this career blog is to discuss on how web tools enable companies to connect with customers. Get started by reading all analytical posts tagged Web Strategy.
In my day job as a Forrester Analyst, I research the social computing industry, and use this knowledge to help clients make the right decisions.
Left image taken by Laughing Squid
Disclosures
While Forrester has thousands of clients, as an industry analyst I’m expected to be objective in my coverage both in person, online, speaking, and in reports. We must maintain objectivity for clients as we would non-clients, as a result, we say good –and bad things about companies in our space. I will disclose public speeches and public webinars that I do on behalf of clients. Lastly, some clients, do not want us to disclose our relationship with them.
I review technology products that are related to social media, I disclose who I’ve received them from, and give them away after I’m done reviewing them.
Employment History
(Company | Title | What I actually did)
Social Media: Industry Analyst
Forrester Research | Senior Analyst | Advised and researched on social computing for the interactive marketer (current position since Oct 07)Social Media: Vendor Side
PodTech Network | Director of Corporate Media Strategy | Educated and advised corporations on social media, business developmentSocial Media: Brand Side
Hitachi Data Systems | Online Community Marketing Manager | Launched and managed integrated social media program: blogs, wiki, forum, rss, podcasts, real world eventsHitachi Data Systems | Global Web Marketing Manager | Managed global enterprise intranet and customer extranet
World Savings (now Wachovia) | Intranet Architect (LADM) | Aligned disparate enterprise intranet
Cable and Wireless | User Interface Designer | Designed customer extranet portal
Exodus Communications | User Interface Designer | Designed enterprise intranet, light development, and production
What I need to Improve on
Here’s what I’ve self-identified what I need to improve on, you can see other feedback about this blog on my uservoice page:
Processes: I struggle with highly structured environments, and need a great deal of creative lattitude, as such, I did poorly in school, but thrived in the creative arts. Details: Sadly, I find myself taking on too much, and tend to work quickly, as such I sometimes miss details. Attitude: Sadly, I’m almost always overwhelmed, I try to answer everyone’s questions, emails, comments, and skim almost all pitches, sometimes I may appear stand-offish, but that is never my intent. Time Management: I’ve dedicated most of my life to web strategy, and I need to remember to go excercise, spend time with my wife, friends, and family.
Social Media Scorecard
This is a career blog, meaning it is solely owned by me, and goes with me from job to job, I’ve recently worked with Forrester Research to find out more about the readers of this blog, see extensive results.
Ranked #753 out of over 100 million blogs -Technorati 72,596 Absolute Unique Visitors –Google Analytics, Oct 2008 Ranked #1 Top Industry Analyst Blog –Technobabble Ranked #37 Media and Marketing blog –Ad Age Power 150 Ranked #38 Top followed Twitter account –Twitterholic
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In the News
For all press and media mentions, see this full archive, recent highlights include:
Wall Street Journal, Nov 10
Facebook Tries to Woo MarketersForbes, Sept 9
Google gets wired for CableBusiness Week, Sept 9
CEOs follow Jeremiah’s tweets, Social Text, and Mzinga.CNN/Dow Jones Wire, Sept 3
Google’s Chrome Seen Casting Shadow Over Web Start-UpgradesPC World, Sept 2
Social Networking Startup Goes Self-service
Research
View all of my Forrester Research, select reports include:
Managing Social Media Services (Winter, 2008) Social Technographics of Baby Boomers (Winter, 2008) Forrester Wave: Community Platforms (coming soon) Facebook’s Engagement Ads (coming soon) The Best and Worst of Social Network Marketing, 2008 Google’s OpenSocial: Good News For Marketing Widgets But No Silver Bullet April 10, 2008 How To Staff For Social Computing February 28, 2008 Online Communities: Build Or Join? February 28, 2008 Online Community Best Practices February 13, 2008
Publications
Select publications include:
Dow Jones’s Factiva: Tracking the Influence: Social Media Measurement (White Paper) | August, 2007 Website Magazine: Social Media from the Drawing board to the Board Room (Article) | August, 2007 White Paper: Business and I.T. Must Work Together to Manage New “Web 2.0″ Tools (White Paper) | Jan, 2006 Video Show: Web Strategy Show, read premise or watch archives | 2006-Present
Speaking
While I frequently speak or present for clients (Video: recent example here), here are some conferences or events that I’ve participated in either as a presenter, panelist, or moderator. Access my speaking bio.
2009
Web Strategy Summit | Calgary Alberta Canada, May 4-5th
Speaking Archives
Board of Advisors
Previously, I sat on the Board of Advisors, to offer guidance and strategy to these successful startups. As a result of becoming an Industry Analyst, I’ve resigned from all advisory roles and do not own stock in any of these companies. Some of the the CEOs have provided a reference regarding my service.
Board of Advisors member for Social Media Club, Non Profit User Group (2006 - July 2007) Board of Advisors member for ConnectBeam (2006 - July 2007) Board of Advisors member for Worksona, (2006 - Sept 2007) Board of Advisors member for Ustream (May 2007 - Sept 2007)
Education
Bachelors Degree, San Francisco State University, Focus on Marketing.
PersonalI’m a fifth generation Chinese-American, my Grandfather’s Grandfather came to the United States in the 1880s, (read story) and we’ve stayed ever since. There’s some info about my unique last name here and here.
I’m often asked how to pronounce my last name, I prefer if you pronounce my last name “Ow-Yang”, and not the Irish variation, although I won’t mind if you do.
I’m a former Jazz performance music major (piano and trombone) and spent a lot of my life in the arts. My wife and I enjoy salsa dancing, when we can afford the time, and I strive to stay in shape through jogging, weights, and the occasional swim.
Left: We attempt to Salsa Dance at the amusement of our wedding reception audience.
Profile Photo Credits: Thomas Hawk.
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[…] About Web Strategy by Jeremiah Jeremiah discusses how companies use web tools to delight customers […]
[…] Without further ado, I’d like to introduce to you the 1st blogger to be featured on my blog through the iDea series, my good friend — Jeremiah Owyang. […]
[…] A-HUGE thanks to Jason as well as to all the other bloggers who have been very generous in welcoming me to the blogosphere as well as linking to posts of mine that they believe deserve some attention. In particular, I’d like to thank Jeremiah (Web Strategist Blog), Ben & Jackie at the Church of the Customer blog (one of the early marketing referrers), and my Viral Community (Mack, Ann, David, Karl, and the rest of us) whose appreciation and constant support has made this journey enjoyable. […]
[…] Many of the regular readers of the blog may recall the iDea series that I announced a month ago. For the uninitiated, iDea is a concept series of interviews I’ve conceived as a bridge between bloggers (marketing and tech). It’s essentially a set of 10 questions culled from many bloggers that I’d pose to a marketing influencer. The resulting interview will be podcast on the blog the following Monday. I’ll be conducting the first interview this weekend, with Jeremiah Owyang - web strategist and author of the “Web Strategist” blog. […]
Hey Jeremiah,
You are in true sense a Web ‘Guru’.
Looking forward to interact with you in the near future and learn something from you.
Hope to get a positive response.
Thansk,
http://walkin.wordpress.com
[…] He said his biggest storage concerns were low utilization of resources and power consumption. He was very pleased with the virtualization capabilities of our USP storage system. Two years ago, he did a migration from a modular 9200 to an enterprise 9980V and a modular 9575. This took 5 people from the US, (three i2 and two HDS) and two weeks to do the migration of about 20TB and 30 applications. This year he migrated the 9980V to a USP with an externally attached modular 9585 and a modular AMS storage system with no additional help and only a few hours to set up the connections. With the virtualization capabilities of the USP he migrated about twice the amount of capacity and twice the number of applications with little extra effort. Now he can easily move data across tiers of storage and better utilize his storage capacity without disruption to his application. Consolidation of storage has also helped to reduce the need for power and cooling as far as the storage is concerned. Moving to a new technology like virtualization can be daunting, especially where is a lot of industry hype around different solutions. Mr Iyer understands technology and after hands on evaluation chose the USP virtualization solution to address his utilization and power consumption concerns. Another Guru is Jeremiah Owyang. Although he looks young, the minute you engage him in conversation, you know you are conversing with a Guru. As many of you know, Jeremiah Owyang, has been my friend and blogging Guru at HDS. Jeremiah has decided to move on and follow his passion in the social networking world. It is rare to find some one so aware and knowledgeable at such a young age. When I first met him about a year ago, I knew he would be moving on to greater things. Jeremiah has joined the Scobilizer at PodTech where he will take on a broader role and become a greater influence in the world of social networks. Although he no longer works for HDS, we continue to communicate,. I still get the occaisional email at 3:00 am that offers insights and suggestions to improve my postings. We at HDS thank Jeremiah for all his contributions to our marketing efforts and wish him the best. I personally thank Jeremiah for being a friend and mentor. […]
Great blog, Jeremiah…and terrific, insightful “About” page! I found your blog through my connection with ITtoolbox.com and Luis Suarez’s blog track-back (http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/km/elsua/archives/the-problem-with-wikis-is-people-time-to-provoke-a-cultural-change-in-the-way-we-share-knowledge-13398) about how sucky people are ruining wikis. You mention that you’re a “blog evangelist”…I call myself a wiki evangelist, nice symmetry there. Your complaint is valid, to a point, but as one of your repliers said (and I echoed on ITtoolbox), people are all we have. Though there are a number of similarities between wikis and blogs, the differences are profound. In blogs, other than comments, it’s all a matter of opinion on the blogger’s part. And, although all information is just opinion validated, a wiki is modifiable for that reason; when your (written) “opinion” can be changed…sometimes multiple times…by people, it then enters this nebulous realm of validation. As a tech writer, I see this better than most. If I became offended that my words were altered (vandalization would be too harsh in this context) every time this happened, I would need serious medication or a change of job in short order. On a related issue, social networking being the order of the day, nothing can replace the connections we (especially techies) are creating in the form of a virtual community; both ITtoolbox and LinkedIn (which I’m also a member) are great resources for this. When we created community and begin to respect each other’s opinion, we will be well on our way to substantiating (and therefore validating) the form of healthy collaboration that is the foundation of the sharing of knowledge in the form of wikis. Perhaps the wiki community could benefit from the same sort of cyber ethics that bloggers like yourself lay claim to; unfortunately, the majority of cyber-vandals are generally unlikely to adhere to these standards of ethics. Just a thought…purely my own, but as such, still worthy of consideration.
Debi
I love your passion and insight on this topic. My comments were intended to generate conversation and in a tone that would indeed get folks talking.
Cyber ethics don’t work well. The problem we’ve had with wikis is the anonymity. I’ve found the best wikis have a representative democracy or some type of human cop.
Someday, the web will have a single ID or identity pass that will help folks to contribute and be accountable, until then, we’re going to have to deal with the bad seeds.
Thanks for the wonderful things you said about my profile!
best wishes
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Hi Jeremiah,
Great blog!
I stumbled across it doing some research about Online/Internet/Web Strategy.
I am trying to find a good book on how to prepare Corporate Online strategies, supported by case studies. It is proving surprisingly difficult to find but I am not sure why; I would have expected (probably naively) that most medium to large organisations would have done their homework about this and documented their outcomes.
Is there any book that yourself or other participants to your would recommend?
Thanks
Marc
Melbourne, Australia
Marc
See my latest post which reviews “Conversation Marketing” It’s not a case study, but it’s a “How to”
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/02/11/book-review-conversational-marketing/
You can search a bunch of company names in my search bar, try “Hitachi” or “Microsoft”
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Hi Jeremiah,
Thank you for your response.
Conversation Marketing is indeed interesting but what I am looking for is information about Online Strategies, which will include purpose, objectives, technologies, architecture, governance models, resourcing, risk/ competitive/ gap analysis, etc
Have you ever seen any of these plans anywhere?
Thanks
Marc
Marc
Not sure exactly what you’re looking for, try clicking on my ‘web strategies’ category on the right nav. It has some of the elements that you’re looking for.
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Not sure how I stumbled onto your site, but great blog. I’ll be sure to add your feed to my reader.
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Thanks Jeremiah, this is a great blog. Lots of really useful informations. I am a student phascinated about social media, virtual communities and blogs, spending hours on the Internet looking for good posts and articles about those subjects as I have to build up my knowledge first. I am also looking for some good and interesting reseach questions in terms of companies and blogging, virtual communities, etc and find it quite difficult to find a really exciting and phascinationg research question. So any good idea is welcome
Christine
Thanks for swinging by Christine, I think the first step is for you to come up with some questions and we’ll help you answer them.
Check out the “web strategy” tag on the right nav, that’s the most helpful information.
[…] Convergence of Social Networks Posted June 12, 2007 I read a post earlier today by Jeremiah Owyang entitled LinkedIn’s Web Strategy. I recently wrote a post about the value of LinkedIn and that was not what Jeremiah was questioning. His inquiry was more with regard to its strategic approach as related to other social networks, particularly Facebook. LinkedIn sees itself as a social networking tool for business. Facebook is a social network for life, which may include business. […]
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Hi Jeremiah,
I am Rafa, from “The Best of Enterprise 2.0″ blog, I reached your blog time ago and I saw through technorati that you linked some information from yours to mine. That’s great! I am proud of it. Just I would ask you one thing:
How did you reach my blog first time? was it browsing? keywords in a search engine? linked from other blog?
A brief explanation would be great to build up a case study on my analysis of blogs and its creation. The results will be forwarded to you as soon as it ’s finished.
Cheers!
I think it was from technorati trackbacks.
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Thank you!
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Hey Jeremiah,
Great blog, valuable mix of marketing and technology topics for me. I’ll keep reading! Karen O’Brien pointed me to you.
Jeremiah - I didn’t find a link or information about future speaking opportunities. I’m the founder of a web entrepreneurship conference in Milwaukee, WI called ActionsTalk (ActionsTalk.com) and would like speak with you regarding the potential to speak at our conference. Looking forward to chatting with you.
-Ryan
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[…] One to watch: Jeremiah Owyang recently left Podtech.net to take up a new position: senior analyst at Forrester Research with a focus on Social Computing. He’ll be working with the very talented Charlene Li. […]
[…] One to watch: Jeremiah Owyang recently left Podtech.net to take up a new position: senior analyst at Forrester Research with a focus on Social Computing. He’ll be working with the very talented Charlene Li. […]
Jeremiah,
What a great, complete view about page. Thanks for your transparency and honesty by decalring openly what you need to work on. That is rare.