Forrester Analyst Blogs

Forrester's Blogs provide a rich resource with multiple ways in, comprising personal insights from over 220 analysts. Forrester's website presents blogs by topic, with a well structured index, although there are some quirks. The topics are aligned to Forrester's major topic categorisation and each topic blog contains content from a number of analysts – not necessarily those whose formal area of responsibility covers the topic in question.

Forrester now group their topic blogs into two categories: blogs for Technology Management Professionals (formerly referred to as Business Technology Professionals: that is, enterprise IT), and blogs for Marketing & Strategy Professionals. Blogs formerly categorised for Technology Industry Professionals (that is, technology vendors) are now included in Marketing & Strategy.

Within each of these categories there are a number of sub-categories. Posts from individual analysts are rolled up into these sub-topic blogs and aggregated again to provide a blog at the two top levels. It is also possible to view blog postings from individual analysts: there is no single direct index to these on Forrester's website, but they are linked from any blog to which the analyst has contributed.

We provide a blog index covering all contributing analysts by name, and we indicate which topics and categories these blogs are rolled up into. We also provide our own index by topic, and this index includes some blogs which are dormant but which are still on the system. We do not provide a search facility for Forrester; their own search capability is excellent and can be constrained to deliver only blog postings.

To learn more about Forrester's role categorisation, follow the "Learn more" link which is found within each topic blog header. There are, however, differences between the role definitions, the blog roll-up categories and the high-level research coverage areas.

Forrester Research analysts do not provide regular podcasts under the Forrester imprint. There are a number of podcasts in the iTunes store, but we are not aware of any which have added content since mid 2010. InformationSpan no longer provides links or information for these.

Forrester also offer the Forrester Research Communities, also aligned by Role, where individuals can register and engage in online discussion with analysts and other members. You do not have to be a Forrester subscriber to join the Communities.

View the InformationSpan index of Forrester blogs by analyst name
View the InformationSpan index of Forrester blogs for Technology Management professionals
View the InformationSpan index of Forrester blogs for Marketing & Strategy (including those formerly indicated for the Technology Industry)
Visit or join the Forrester Research Communities
Or go to Forrester's own blog index

Titled blogs from Forrester
Forrester have two titled blogs which span interest groups; the list changes from time to time.
  • The Counterintuitive CEO (George F. Colony's Blog). George Colony is CEO of Forrester. An experienced business technology analyst in his own right, he attends major events such as the World Economic Forum at Davos and is well worth reading.
  • the Empowered blog (formerly called The Groundswell) is part of an externally hosted resource for social, collaborative and immersive technologies. It is delivered by analysts Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler. It is hosted outside Forrester. The book Groundswell was co-authored by Charlene Li, now leading Altimeter Group
  • Forrester's Citations Blog, started in August 2009 for open discussion of Forrester's policy regarding citation of Forrester research in third party documents, no longer exists.


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