Continuing from yesterday’s post, here is a list of the blogs deleted from the directory during March, April and May.

The list is a bit long. It includes normal archiving — bloggers leaving analyst jobs, starting new blogs, restricting reader access. Plus, it includes my first pass at culling blogs that had grown dormant, based on the published blog roll logic. Even then, I made exceptions as seemed appropriate.

In a few cases, analyst bloggers have signaled that they intend to revitalize their blogs. Some are shifting to other types of social media.

Let me know if you disagree with your blog (or any other blog) being on this list. Flag up those that ought to be. Your comments are welcome.

In no particular order:

Craig Burton: logs, links, life, and lexicon
CCID Consulting’s Blog

Open Source Unleashed
The Going Visual Blog
Dan Sholler’s Musings
straydogz
The Ombudsman Blog
Content Technology CTO Blog
Inescapable Data
MobileTV-View
Ubertrends
My Lappy
ReinventingSF.com
China Trends
JupiterResearch Conversations
Storage Takeaways
David Adams’ MobileStartup
Tabor Research Blog
IPNetworkView
Dortch’s Digressions
JupiterResearch Weblog - Peter Sargent
JupiterResearch Weblog - Joe Laszlo

Blackfriar Blog
Forrester Infrastructure and Operations Council
Nick Selby’s Blog
Soreon Web-log
I, Analyst
My Life as a CRM Diva

I’ve been remiss in sharing updates to Tekrati’s Directory of Analyst Blogs. Here are the blogs added during March, April and May. Check back tomorrow (night) for a lis of the blogs deleted.

As always, some of these blogs are new, some have authors new to the analyst ranks, and others are simply new to me. Those with valid feeds are also included in Tekrati’s blog rolls and the directory OPML.

The Tekrati Directory of Analyst Blogs and OPML is a freely available service. No one pays to get listed here, no one pays to use the directory or OPML. Your help is much appreciated. Please help as you can, by sharing tips on blogs/bloggers that are missing, acknowledging your use of the directory/OPML as appropriate, and spreading the word.

Thanks!
Barbara

Tekrati’s Analyst Blogs Directory - Adds during March, April and May 2008

Company: BKI Media
Bena Roberts’ group publishes two blogs: GoMo News, and Mobile Insight and Search.

Company: Burton Group
Burton Group launched a new service and a new blog: Data Management Strategies features Chris Haddad, Joe Maguire, and Peter O’Kelly. The Executive Advisory Blog completes the service-blog alignment and features Chris Howard and Mike Rollings. Two personal blogs new to me: Kirk Knoernschild’s kirkk.com and Larry Cannell’s Cannell.org.

Company: CCS Insight
Geoff Blaber, Tom Byrd, Paolo Pescatore, and Ben Wood blog at CCS Insight Blog.

Company: Data Mobility Group
Joe Martins blogs at The Saltworks, while Robin Harris blogs at Storage Bits (at ZDNet).

Company: Enterprise Mobility Matters
Philippe Winthrop is working independently since departing Aberdeen Group. His blog is his business site, Enterprise Mobility Matters.

Company: Enterprise Strategy Group
ESG has fired up a few more employee blogs: Brian Babineau’s IT BULLETins, and Mark Bowker’s Liquefying IT. Heidi Biggar returned to blogging at Driven to Tiers, then left the building, all during this 3-month window.

Company: Forrester Research
Mary Beth Kemp and Peter Kim launched Forrester - The Future Of Agencies Blog.

Company: Gartner
Thomas Otter, of Vendorprisey blog fame, joined Gartner. Meanwhile, news to me: Jeffrey Mann has been publishing a personal blog, Jeff and Hennie’s Stuff. Hat tip to his Twitter profile.

Company: IDC
New to me: Rachel Happe’s personal blog, The Social Organization. Hat tip to Jay Andersen at Blanc & Otis.

Company: Nemertes Research
Irwin Lazar is participating in TechWeb’s Enterprise 2.0 Blog, the replacement for the Collaboration Loop blog.

Company: NPD Group
Sam Bhavnani shares a different kind of expertise at his personal blog, Got Tannins?

Company: Premonvision
Carl Gressum is blogging and doing business as Premonvision, following his departure from Ovum. Hat tip to Jonny Bentwood, Edelman.

Company: RedMonk
Finally added the RedMonk Radio Podcast, and two blogs by the newest ‘Monk, Tom Raftery: Lower (Carbon) Footprint and Tom Raftery’s Social Media. Drop by to wish Tom good beginnings at Greenmonk and his new diggs in Spain.

Company: Sandy Kemsley
New to me but well established in enterprise circles: Column 2 by Sandy Kemsley. She’s also posts occasionally to Enterprise Irregular.

Company: SharpBrains
If you plan on using your brain for several years, get it on a regular maintenance program. It’s as easy as reading a blog. Alvaro Fernandez offers links and insights at the SharpBrains blog.

Company: Society for New Communications Research
Jen McClure publishes SNCR’s New Communications Review and on occasion updates a personal blog, Jen McClure’s Ruminations.

Company: The 451 Group
Two blogs debuted: The 451 Take on on information management, Too much information (yes, that’s the title) by Nick Patience and Kathleen Reidy. Also, Plausible Deniability by Steve Coplan, Paul Roberts, and Nick Selby.

Company: The Kelsey Group
Peter Krasilovsky rejoined TKG. He maintains his personal blog on local meida, Local Onliner, and also contributes to The Kelsey Group company blog.

Company: Yankee Group
In February, Carl Howe and Andrew Jaquith began publishing Notes from Anywhere. Since then, the Yankee Group Blog has further transformed from an Emily Green CEO blog into a group blog. Carl and Andrew cross-post at both blogs. Read and comment where you like.

There’s an interesting conversation at the Sagecircle blog on the definition of an analyst. The comments reflect the lack of consensus on defining what makes a person an analyst as opposed to any other species of professional.

Check it out, have your say.

Consider contributing to the wikipedia article describing industry analysts, as well.

Jen McClure issued a friendly challenge at the New Comm Forum: turn to the person nearest you who hasn’t used Twitter, and show them the ropes. (Twitter launched at the 2007 New Comm Forum.)

One thing led to another, and here I am, setting myself up on Twitter this afternoon. I couldn’t be doing this with any kind of immediate work benefit at all, were it not for Carter Lusher’s and Dave Eckert’s Analyst Twitter Directory.

With their directory, I was able to start following some favorite analysts in a matter of minutes. Interesting trivia: most of the analysts listed there also blog. Don’t see any other obvious common denominators, except that Charlene Li is the only female so far.

Also found in their directory 3 firms new to me: Accendor, Bathwick Group and SiriusDecisions.

Very cool. Carter and Dave are developing a specialty around new comms tools and analyst relations. This Twitter directory is a great example of their community spirit.

It’s the perfect solution for me for two reasons. First, I wouldn’t take the time to send emails to a bunch of people asking for their Twitter name. Let alone cause the interruption.

Second, I’m interested in following, versus being followed. That makes this ready-to-use list of Twitter names a comfortable, low key approach to adding analysts to follow.

Twitter seems like an interesting way to incubate many of the new professional relationships I started this week at New Comm Forum. Plus, it doesn’t hurt that Twitter is another reason to spend more time using my newest shiny thing, a Nokia N95.

451 Group security guru Nick Selby has packed in his personal blog, in light of the additional expectations of his recent promotion and the launch of a new company blog on security.

It’s funny how you get attached to some blogs. I was partial to that one. Nick, I’ll miss your waggish wit. I trust we’ll see hints of it surface in your posts at the new blog.

Meawhile, I’m dutifully adding two 451 blogs to the directory: one on security and one on information management.

I’ll summarize all the blog directory adds and deletes in the normal monthly update post, right around April Fool’s day.

I’ve finally defined the new, improved “blogroll logic” for the Tekrati analyst blogs directory. The first rule going into effect disqualifies all blogs that have not had at least two posts per month for the last four months. These blogs will be gone by Monday morning, San Francisco time.

The complete qualification logic with regards to positing activity:
* Blogs have at least two original posts per month for the last four calendar months.
* Newly minted blogs get a four-month honeymoon, starting with their inaugural posting.
* Blog deletions will be listed in the monthly “directory update” post, here in the Keeping Tabs blog.
* Send requests for inclusion/re-listing in the blogs directory to me at editor, here at tekrati.

Grab the OPML today, if you want your own personal archive of those sleepers.

Your thoughts on this policy are most welcome.

I want to point you to Vinnie Mirchandani’s Deal Architect blog, for a clear and refreshing narrative on analyst influence in the real world.

Lately, there has been a growing emphasis on industry analyst influence — how to influence analysts, how to measure analyst influence, which analysts to influence, what analyst influence matters, etc. The implication is that influence is a major part of the analyst business. I disagree. I contend that influence — and its ugly cousin, message testing — is not the point of the analyst business. At best, influence is a by-product of a successful analyst business.

I’ve always maintained that vendors profit the most from the industry analysts by making them part of fact-based decision processes throughout the vendor company. That means tapping the right analysts to participate in decisions and discussions within the right parts of the vendor organization and at the right time.

I wonder if we’re reaching a point where there are two types of vendors: those who value analysts as part of ongoing business and operations decision processes, and those who value analysts as part of marketplace influence and spin.

Bringing in external advisors — analysts, consultants, integrators — is always messy.

But so is devising vendor-analyst relationship programs based solely on multi-tier, dynamically weighted, bifurcated, theoretically validated models of analyst influence mojo.

For decades, CeBIT in Hannover was the leading annual venue for meeting with the broadest range of ICT industry analysts from across the world and the industry. This week, CES in Las Vegas may take bragging rights for the attracting the largest swarm of industry analysts on the planet. Barbara French, Tekrati, and Kim Horner, CustomerClix, offer a snapshot of analysts at 2007 CES. Here’s last minute help for that Hail Mary Pass aimed at getting just a few more meetings.

Attending CES is as important to the analysts as it is to every other contingent. Industry analysts attend the show for the usual mix of motives: business development, networking, availability to the media, sanity checks on countless pre-event NDA briefings, opportunities to touch new and concept products and services, and a good deal of “sniffing the air” — not as in searching for wireless but in the traditional European sense, of experiencing the marketplace heat, hype and mayhem in situ.

Kim Horner, provider of AnalystClix, an unique database of forthcoming analyst publications and events, recommends taking advantage of the event by meeting up with analysts attending CES as well as those making appearances as speakers. It’s a great way to keep up with leading opinion and also to assess and compare research companies and personalities. Advance planning is key for booking meetings during the show.

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