Just a final note about the Sentiment Analysis Symposium, April 13 in New York. The symposium is a business-focused conference designed to educate users -- current and prospective -- on sentiment solutions for social media, public relations, customer experience, financial markets, and other applications.

I hope you can attend. We have a great program lined up. I'm especially looking forward to the lightning talks, a series of quick demo-presentations, and to "Selecting a Social Media Analysis Platform/Provider" with moderator Suresh Vittal from Forrester Research and social-analytics gurus Nathan Gilliatt and Marshall Sponder. Note that registration is 50% off for academics, government, and non-profits.

And this is a first note about this year's Text Analytics Summit, slated for May 25-26 in Boston. I'm program chair once again and will present an introductory workshop the afternoon of May 24. Please consider joining us!

Do get in touch about the conferences or anything else related to BI, text analytics, or sentiment analysis -- my coordinates are on-line -- or follow me on Twitter for updates.

Seth