Honor Roll: This Week's Top Insurance Blogs (Oct. 25-31)

Our favorite insurance technology-related blog posts from around the Web (October 25-31, 2009):A Toe-hold for Social Media in Insurance - Affinity Marketing

Celent's Mike Fitzgerald discusses an approach to social media that, he suggests, blends it with the realities of today's insurance industry. ---

GDP Growth and the Return of Unemployment

Rick Jacobson, CEO of insurance, healthcare and financial services staffing firm the Jacobson Group, discusses the relationships between staffing groups and the economy on his insurance-focused blog. ---

Exterminate Bad Experiences RightNow

Forrester's Bruce Temkin investigates RightNow's new corporate mantra: ridding the world of bad experiences. "I've seen many vendors create missions like this; announcing audacious statements about how they want to be perceived. Most fail miserably. But RightNow's announcement is different from most," Temkin writes. ---

Accuracy - How Come No One Talks About It?

Initiate's Rick Clement's wonders why the accuracy of master data doesn't seem to be as valued as performance or scalability. "Without accurate master data the business processes that depend on those data can be inefficient, ineffective, and costly or increase business risk," he writes. ---