The real sentiment is neither bullish nor bearish, it is absent entirely.
Zeke Morris, a REO manager in Chicago, captured the current real estate sentiment quite well.
Finally, for me, the next debates may help marketers understand the potential value of real-time sentiment for any brand.
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With real-time sentiment, you can get a bit closer to the truth.
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Second, real-time sentiment might help the campaigns determine with better precision and at greater speed the memes and themes that are connecting with voters.
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But as with so many other technologies that get tested in the crucible of national politics, real-time sentiment analysis may get a shot at the mainstream after this election.
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The real risk on the sentiment front for IGT is from the analyst community.
Jason Goepfert, editor of Sentimentrader.com looks at several real money gauges of sentiment that he puts into two classifications: smart money and dumb money.
But this direct connection to instantaneous sentiment has some real implications.
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Joe not over beer but based on real-time aggregation of voter sentiment.
Friday, we will get the first real post-cliff reading on consumer sentiment, which may be revealing.
But the tide is turning as companies begin to experience the real benefits of social technologies, and sentiment is changing rapidly.
Someone else told me that there is sentiment among some people in real estate to throw the hedge fund managers under the bus by advocating a more focused solution.
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So Twitter began working with polling groups and Topsy to look into the political data buried in the din of constant online chatter -- they wanted a better way to measure the sentiment voters were expressing in real-time.
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Commercial real estate is not immune to these swings in sentiment or the slowing economy.
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These responses, when run through business intelligence engines, will generate sentiment boards to provide product designers with real-time consumer insights.
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More shoppers were referred by social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube on Cyber Monday than Black Friday, 20% more, but the real strength of those networks was in allowing consumer sentiment to be measured.
In the paper "Securities for Uncertain Times" Raymond James' Director of Real Estate Research, Paul Puryear, says the sentiment against REITs has swung too far negative and recommends several to investors, including the Kimco Realty Corporation, Mid-America Apartments and National Retail Properties.
And while real estate and jobs data remain a fundamental drag on investor sentiment, other indicators show the US economy is at least on track to grow at the anemic forecasted 2.5% this year.
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Congress hopes that sentiment still holds, and will offer itself as the real party of stable government.
Pollsters tell us I think rightly that the best way to characterize the majority of public sentiment is that people indeed believe that global warming is real (correct), that humans have something to do with it (correct), and that scientists are exaggerating its effects (thank you for listening).
Rather it is to point out that before acting on sentiment, we should check hard facts and see if the real-world consequences actually further the original goal.
It has a lot to do with the recent performance of the stock market, a pretty good measure of sentiment as well as one of the better leading indicators of real economic activity.
But real-time might also help identify when and why a trend toward positive sentiment actually got started, and help you gauge how much and how soon to get behind it.
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The real reason is simple: Olympic officials are afraid to upset countries with anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian sentiment.
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