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Leslie serves Enterprise Architecture Professionals. She leads a team of analysts who provide research and advisory services on emerging technology, information strategy and architecture, data management, and content management. Leslie provides Forrester's coverage of specific information management topics such as enterprise search, semantic tools, information classification, and taxonomies. She helps enterprises improve access to information through strategic application of technology and guidance on process.
Leslie has more than 12 years of experience in the field of information management. Prior to joining Forrester in 2007, she managed the enterprise search program at Abbott Laboratories. In this role, she developed the enterprise search strategy and guided the selection of ontology management software. In addition, she contributed to enterprise initiatives around records management, collaboration, digital asset management, and web content management systems. Prior to Abbott, Leslie developed taxonomies as an independent consultant for Fortune 500 clients.
Leslie holds a master's degree in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a focus on cataloging and classification. She holds an undergraduate degree in political science from Duke University.
Assessment: The Social Marketing Playbook
Customers and employees are becoming increasingly empowered by social technologies, dramatically changing the way they communicate and collaborate. To succeed in this new world, companies must make...
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Online and offline advertising spending by marketers. Segments online display spending by pricing scheme, media format, and share of spending through ad networks. Includes historical data going back...

This report is designed to give B2B marketing professionals an introduction to the online community manager role as well as an overview of the general challenges facing an individual in this...

Assessment: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Marketers fall into four categories of digital media buying maturity, based on their strength across their organization, planning and execution, measurement, and technology. This report of the...

How To Reach European Consumers In New Ad-Free Media
Marketers' traditional advertising tactics face a new disruption: paid content. Why? Because the number of consumers buying online content in Western European countries will continue to swell over...
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Company spending on interactive marketing spending segmented by industries. Each industry's spending is further broken into the various components of interactive marketing: display, paid search, SEO,...
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Online social media spending by companies, segmented by spending on integrated campaigns, agency fees, display ads on social networks, and technology spending. Includes social spending directed...
Executive Overview: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Digital media buying is undergoing seismic change. Where there were once legions of junior staff managing relationship-based buys, there are now sophisticated real-time technologies. Participants...

B2B Marketers Must Focus On The Social Rather Than The Media
When it comes to using social media to attract customers, business-to-business (B2B) marketers have focused more on the media than the social aspect. Today, B2B marketers use social media as another...

Forrester Technographics® Digital Consumer Community Report, September 2012
In the age of the always addressable customer, where hyperconnected consumers are increasingly savvy and demanding of the brands with which they interact, marketers must become more audience-centric...

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Spending by companies on mobile and tablet marketing segmented by display, search, and social. Includes data on mobile Internet users and spending by company size as well as mobile video...
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Online social media spending by companies, segmented by spending on integrated campaigns, agency fees, display ads on social networks, and technology spending. Agency fees spending is broken out by...
Landscape: The Email Marketing Playbook
Forrester periodically surveys marketers to get a pulse on how they employ the most veteran of tools in their interactive toolkits — email. We've found that more business-to-consumer (B2C) than...
Understand The Opportunities And Challenges Before Activating
Interactive displays offer interactive marketers the chance to enhance customer engagement outside of the home and to test budding technologies like gestural recognition and touchscreen interfaces....
Learn From The Winners About Best Practices To Emulate
Outstanding business-to-business (B2B) community and social marketers took a variety of approaches to community marketing in Forrester's 2012 B2B Groundswell Awards, and each of them has demonstrated...
Business Case: The Social Marketing Playbook
The demand has never been greater for marketers to validate and measure the benefits delivered by their increasing investment in social media. Marketers often frame this question as, "What is the ROI...

Organization: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Long-term, digital media buying success requires a commitment to the right partnerships, staffing, and organizational structure. The organization report in the digital media buying playbook will help...
Introducing Forrester's Search Marketing Review Methodology 2.0
Paid search marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) are still mainstays in the interactive marketer's toolkit. And many legacy best practices still apply to paid search and SEO. However,...

Landscape: The Interactive Marketing Agency And Organization Playbook
This report of the interactive marketing agency and organization playbook examines the landscape of organizational structures and agency relationships. Three common organizational models have...

Master The Next Wave Of Social
For the interactive marketer, social is both a huge opportunity and daunting challenge. You know you can reach your customers on social channels, but the environment is foreign— it's highly...
Business Case: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
Enterprise marketing technologies promise to better engage customers, improve marketing performance, and boost efficiency. This report, part of Forrester's marketing technology playbook, helps...

How, Why, And When Your Buyers Tap Into Communities
Communities provide the interactions and content that buyers seek when they want to discover, explore, and engage with a brand. But business-to-business (B2B) marketers often hesitate to interact...
Market research online communities (MROCs) are an increasingly popular qualitative research method. They allow market insights professionals to engage with consumers via a number of different...

Emerging Trends In B2B Social Marketing For 2013
Our data shows that social channels are key to the decision processes of your business-to-business (B2B) customers and prospects, so to avoid falling behind or missing emerging trends, you should...