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I detest the term “thought leadership.” It’s a pet peeve, but thought leadership isn’t something that you somehow “do.” Tim Marklein nails it when he makes the case that this is something that has to be earned. It’s not to be – or shouldn’t be – lumped into the same sentence with demand generation. SplittingRead more

Welcome to the May 2022 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 April 2022) and year-over-year (versus May 2021).    Read more

Co-written with Joshua Swarz.  More than 26,000 attendees, including 600+ speakers, 400+ exhibitors, and over 400 members of the media made their way to San Francisco’s Moscone Center and surrounding hotels for the first in-person RSA Conference in more than two years. With friends, clients, and colleagues seeing each other for the first time inRead more

Welcome to the special RSA Conference edition of Top Conversations in Technology. In this analysis, we break down the rankings and trend lines for 33 security topics driving news and blog conversation over the past three-plus years, from January 2019 through May 2022. We look at which topics are leading, rising and falling to help technology marketersRead more

As the curtain goes up on the first in-person RSA Conference since 2020, this year marks something special.    It feels like a lifetime ago since the last show, and a lot has since happened in the world of security. There have been numerous high-profile breaches – from SolarWinds to Colonial Pipeline – that no doubtRead more

Gabriel Bassett is the lead data scientist and a contributing author on the Data Breach Investigations Report team at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, specializing in data science and graph theory applications to cyber security (including VERIS and Attack Flow).  He supports several information security data science conferences, is game architect for the Pros vs Joes CaptureRead more

“Thought leadership” is one of the most over-used phrases in technology marketing. Everyone wants it. Most are trying to get it. Very few have it. If you’re in the first two camps, here are a few lessons from the third: Thought leadership is earned, not published. We hear from a lot of marketers that they areRead more

Welcome to the April 2022 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 March 2022) and year-over-year (April 2021).       BigRead more

Welcome to our latest 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 over the past three years, comparing top conversations in 2021 toRead more

2021 was a record year for cybersecurity. From SolarWinds, which the President of Microsoft called “the largest cyberattack ever,” to Colonial Pipeline and the log4j vulnerability – it seemed like there was a new headline every week. Our Top Conversations in Tech reflected that, with cybersecurity staying in the top 10 for almost the entireRead more