As Social and Collaborative technologies have become more and more sophisticated and specialized, a divide was created and for some time now has been widening. Particularly in the business context, this progression has reached a point where the technologies fall into two unique camps. As practitioners and researchers in Social Network Analysis, though, a bit [...]

As we charge headfirst into 2011, the topic and conversation around influence is hotter than ever. In 2010, we saw a lot of conjecture around what influence is, how it is measured, its relationship to Social Media, as well as a variety of other topics. Here at Ressive we covered several of these areas in [...]

Many of the areas of research we’re interested in fall into the somewhat artificial category of “advanced analytics.” Upon hearing that phrase it’s been my experience that a great many people recoil in terror or at the very least get a slightly glassy-eyed stare. I imagine the internal monologue goes something like this: “Oh great, [...]