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Even before COVID forced us all to spend inordinate amounts of time at home, I was a sucker for quarterly conference calls where publicly-held firms field no-nonsense questions from a collection of impatient Wall Street analysts. There’s really nothing like it. This is the no-BS zone where, for an hour or so, the sundry moversRead more

Welcome to the January 2021 edition of Top Conversations in Technology, where we break down which topics are leading, rising and falling each month to help technology marketers maximize relevance and adapt to changing market dynamics. In this month’s analysis, we focus on variations in news and blog citation volumes month-over-month (versus December 2020) and year-over-year (versus JanuaryRead more

Welcome to the 2020 year-in-review edition of Top Conversations in Technology, where we break down which topics are leading, rising and falling to help technology marketers maximize relevance and adapt to changing market dynamics. In this analysis, we focus on variations in news and blog citation volumes for the full year 2020 compared to 2019.   It’s safe to say 2020 was aRead more

Welcome to the December 2020 edition of Top Conversations in Technology, where we break down which topics are leading, rising and falling each month to help technology marketers maximize relevance and adapt to changing market dynamics. In this month’s analysis, we focus on variations in news and blog citation volumes month-over-month (versus November 2020) andRead more

News, by definition, is always being refreshed by the world it mirrors. A year ago, few if any of us even knew the word “COVID” or “coronavirus.” And pandemics were something that happened long, long ago in a black-and-white world. Still, news – paradoxically – has a predictably about it, even in the unpredictable worldRead more

Welcome to the November 2020 edition of Top Conversations in Technology, where we break down which topics are leading, rising and falling each month to help technology marketers maximize relevance and adapt to changing market dynamics. In this month’s analysis, we focus on variations in news and blog citation volumes month-over-month (versus October 2020) and year-over-year (versus November 2019).  Remember aRead more

Long after we close the books on 2020, the impact of COVID-19 will remain – not only for the lives lost to the pandemic but also for the truly seismic changes it forced in the way we work. And while every industry was forced to undergo sharp, sometimes painful transformations in the last 12 months,Read more

Welcome to the October 2020 edition of Top Conversations in Technology, where we break down which topics are leading, rising and falling each month to help technology marketers maximize relevance and adapt to changing market dynamics. In this month’s analysis, we focus on variations in news and blog citation volumes month-over-month (versus September 2020) andRead more

Technology is a fascinating, changing story but it’s not always easy to understand. That’s something to keep front-of-mind before sitting down with a reporter. The other thing to remember is that many – maybe most? – of the tech writers you’re going to meet aren’t tech experts. That doesn’t mean they can’t grasp the nuancesRead more

Welcome to the September 2020 edition of Top Conversations in Tech, where we break down which topics are leading, rising and falling each month to help technology marketers maximize relevance and adapt to changing market dynamics. In this month’s analysis, we focus on variations in news and blog citation volumes month-over-month (versus August 2020) and year-over-year (versus September 2019).  In the top 10, we saw modest shifts month to month with no changesRead more