<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0540d5af-005f-4665-a5ad-2d29d4e73742/2D374E6F-BC86-4B53-B513-191AAA2F547B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=74694" href="http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=74694" style="font-size: 11px;">publications.mediapost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=74694"><SPAN class=articleText><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">TO STAY AHEAD OF THE </SPAN>social networking curve in 2008, interactive marketers should put brand monitoring in place, focus on objectives over technologies, and go for speed over perfection in applications deployment. That's the advice from Forrester Research analysts collected in a new report. <P></p> <P></p> <P class=articleText>The adoption of new technologies will lead to changes in how people connect and relate to each other, and in the process, how companies market, promote, and sell to their customers and prospects, according to Forrester's top analysts, including Charlene Li, Jeremiah Owyang, and Peter Kim, along with Josh Bernoff and Scott Wright. <P class=articleText>"In the fast-changing world of social computing, there's only one constant--that people will continue to connect with each other in new and different ways, causing upheavals in the way companies and institutions relate to them," the report warns. </P></SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2D374E6F-BC86-4B53-B513-191AAA2F547B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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