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Melissa is a research director and principal analyst serving Marketing Leadership Professionals. As Forrester's leading authority on mobile marketing, she has defined the stages of mobile marketing evolution, the best objectives for mobile marketing, and the always addressable customer to help brands develop their mobile marketing practice and successfully engage their increasingly mobile customers. Melissa also brings to her mobile research deep expertise and experience in social media, which gives her a powerful understanding of how these complementary technologies can be used in combination to effectively bring marketers and customers ever closer together.
Melissa has been quoted frequently in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Fortune magazine. She has spoken at the Churchill Club, OMMA Global, SXSW, and Social Media Week on mobile marketing and social media.
Before joining Forrester, Melissa was the director of community strategy at Time Lifestyle Digital group, where she was responsible for community and social media initiatives across the network's 10 titles, which include Real Simple, Southern Living, and Cooking Light. Prior to joining Time in 2007, Melissa was part of Crayon, a conversational marketing consultancy, where she managed social media projects for brands like Coca-Cola and American Airlines. Previously, Melissa held senior product and community roles at Meetup, the world's largest network of local groups, and Bolt.com, a community of more than 10 million teenagers and young adults. In parallel with her work in social media, Melissa led early innovation initiatives in mobile marketing at several of her previous companies.
Melissa earned a B.A. in drama and philosophy from Loyola University New Orleans, an M.A. in liberal studies from The New School, and an M.F.A. in dramaturgy and script development from Columbia University.
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Most People Are Happy To Wait To Upgrade To 3D TV
At the opening of 2010, the world's largest TV manufacturers came to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) full of heady promises about the future of 3D TV. Despite the success of 3D films at the box...

Mobile Banking's Time Has Finally Come
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US eReader Forecast, 2010 To 2015
eReaders face a formidable challenge from the rise of tablet PCs. The iPad is already desired by more people than any single eReader, something we expect to only increase with time. However, with...
As interest in business architecture heats up, IT and business executives are asking how they can use business architecture to drive value. Many organizations have started business architecture...
This Technographics Insight takes a look at media consumptions in North America, Europe and Asia. It examines levels and trends of media consumption across the Globe.
In a recent blog post and press kit on Building Confidence in Cloud Computing, Microsoft's General Counsel, Brad Smith, calls for government action to "ensure that a robust privacy and security...
It was especially useful to consider the various focal points BPM can have, very good. The only improvement I can suggest if I may is that processes over the years have become overlaid with...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007
Symphoniq offers an integrated suite of end user monitoring products aimed at incident and problem resolution for Web-based applications. The company's TrueView solution consists of a unique...
At Forrester, we believe that 2012 is an inflection point for mobile market research. Specifically, 2012 will be considered the “big bang” for a new era in market research — one in...
Why The Most Solid Thing In Your Product Strategy Is Virtual
All consumer product strategists should sit up and take notice: There's a critical lesson to learn from the most recent changes in the media industry. While most in the business have obsessed over...

A Planning Tool For Events Attended By Industry Analysts
While analyst days may be a great way to inform, impress, and obtain feedback from industry analysts, they can be a nightmare to arrange given the unusual combination of event management and analyst...
EA organizations struggle to define what they do in terms the organization both understands and appreciates. The root cause for this struggle is often that the EA team itself is not clear about what...
Is it hard to focus your software delivery organization on the right things? Do you sometimes deliver the wrong features or give too little priority to the most important features? Are you drowning...
This highlight deck summarizes the key findings from Forrester¿s European Consumer Technology Online Survey, Q4 2008. This deck covers Home Networks, Internet connection outside of home, and...
Train for Success hosted a panel discussion today in Second Life to both look back to 2009 and forward to 2010 and discuss observations and trends in virtual worlds. The other panelists —...
I've learnt that information isn't the same as datum and what is considered to be information goes beyond what IT calls data and information. Can Forrester help on showing how different they are?...
Electronic signatures are gaining momentum and becoming an increasingly popular topic of inquiries by Forrester clients. In retrospect, today's e-signature users will be seen as early adopters...

For the past four years, Forrester has been tracking consumers' online and offline behavior in Asia Pacific. This is a dedicated report about Asia Pacific consumers' online behavior aimed at...