Big Data and Influencers by Flemming Madsen.
From the post:
Big Data is a hot topic and I have looked at overall influencers on this topic before here and here.
If you are a vendor in the Big Data market place you are probably either already running influencer programs or strongly considering it.
The Big Data market place is quite complex with many vendors and a huge number of complex issues to digest and take into account. It’s a classic example where influencers, including analysts, journalists, bloggers, commentators and technical evangelists are influencing the awareness and viewpoints of prospective clients.
However, if you want to run an influencer program on Big Data, how do you go about it?
First you need to identify who are influential in the debate on Big Data.
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Partially a promo for an analytics product but it also includes a list of the top 200 big data influencers.
Could be useful if you need to nudge the rhetoric one way or the other.
Such as asking where are semantics in the “big data” tools?