Have a great Halloweeen…from some of the Bazaarvoicees who dressed up (picture below):

Bazaarvoice is nominated for ClickZ Marketing Excellence awards. This is an exciting honor for us. We enjoy working with all our clients to introduce new strategies of marketing WITH customers.  We're learning a lot and producing great results. It's why I joined this adventure. It is truly excellent!
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A few stats and industry research findings caught my attention over the past few weeks:
On 10/4, eMarketer reported on the stickiness of user-generated content sites in the UK.  In summary, eMarketer found that the average minutes per visitor on sites like MySpace.com, Wikipedia, and YouTube.com was more than double the average for non-user-generated content [...]

The cover story of Tuesday's USA Today Life featured an article on the millennials.  I have referred to them as the "IM Generation" on previous blog entries, borrowing Tony Perkin's naming.  This story struck a cord with me on multiple levels, especially this part:
• 61% of 13- to 25-year-olds feel personally responsible for making a [...]

I’m on (or was on) a plane back from speaking at emetrics summit in Washington D.C. My presentation was on “How to Bring eMetrics into the Heart of your Business – 7 Principles”. This presentation had little to do with Bazaarvoice, but after many years at startups and Dell, I have a lot of experience [...]

Last week was Shop.org's Annual Summit in New York. It was a great show…2,200 attendees vs. 1,500 last year. Many new attendees. eCommerce is booming.
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I led a panel at the Web 2.0 Boot Camp the first day of the show where we shared new technologies to help online retailers reach a market who [...]

If you're going to Shop.org Annual Summit next week in NY (Oct. 10-12) come see meet the team at booth #120. We have several announcements, case studies and demos to show you.
You can also come to a panel or roundtable we are hosting at the Web 2.0 Bootcamp (pre-show event) and during the summit. [...]

Fair Indigo, the brainchild of former Lands' End / Sears executive and eCommerce guru Bill Bass, launched it's online business on September 16. The company’s motto is "Style With A Conscience." Fair Indigo's aim is to "pioneer a change in the apparel industry" by putting the people who make the clothes first.
As a pioneer in [...]