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Welcome to the October 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 September 2021) and year-over-year (versus October 2020).      Big Picture: Are you sickRead more

Welcome to the June 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  May  2021) and year-over-year (versus  June  2020).     Read more

Four months after publishing its 2020 State of Tech Journalism Report, Muckrack dropped its 2021 State of Journalism Report this week. There are many similarities between reporters in general and tech beat reporters, but the story is in the differences – two in particular: how reporters view the quality and presentation of information we share;Read more

With global cyber-attacks again seizing headlines, I’ve been thinking about how cybersecurity coverage has evolved over the years. In the last 12 months alone, the topic “cybersecurity” fluctuated wildly in our Top Conversations in Tech – ranging from the #9 spot to #16. We’ve seen the coverage of the topic spike every time there isRead 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

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

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