Forrester advice. WOM bests social. Facebook content public. (RBDR 3.12.2015)

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Today on RBDR: 1) Forrester Research VP Carl Doty advises companies to forego creation of Chief Data Officer or Chief Digital Officer positions. They are a distraction for what actually needs to happen inside the typical corporation. 2) Think social media is the most powerful influence on television viewing? Think again, says a University of Rochester Simon Business School study. It’s actually word of mouth. 3) Facebook is joining Twitter in making available information about what its members are talking about to marketers. 4) Candice Bennett is the latest researcher to enter the political arena.

Facebook feeds data to TV Nets, Study: MR undergoing evolutionary change (RBDR–10/02/13)

Today: 1) Facebook may be establishing a new social media data collection trend by collecting and sending its users’ data re TV programs to the four American TV networks. 2) Best Practices, LLC’s Consumer MR Innovation study describes adoption as ongoing evolutionary change, not revolutionary, disruptive change. 3) Nielsen Vice Chair Susan Whiting will retire at the end of 2013.

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