Networked Insights is moving into the New Year, literally: we’re packing up our desks, computers, and open-source chess game. Unlike a lot of businesses that went under or downsized this year, we’re happily spending the early part of New Year’s Eve unpacking boxes and setting up shop in a bigger and better space.

Our new office is located at 33 E Main Street, Suite 251, on the Capitol Square. The move is necessary to accommodate continued growth in business and employees. The new space, designed for Networked Insights by architect David Jennerjahn of Chicago’s Valerio Dewalt Train Associates, is larger and better reflects the tone and style of the company. I’d love to give you a tour.

Madison, Wisconsin, is known for it’s resilient economy, bolstered by state government, UW-Madison, and biotech. Government and the university have nurtured biotech and created a thriving industry.  Those same dynamics can support all kinds of successful tech ventures — we’re proof of that. The intentional groundwork has yet to be laid to support broader tech companies, but the city is naturally suited to the task. We’ve recruited and retained some of the smartest developers around to build SocialSense into a premier social-media-analytics tool. Madison is a great place to do what we do.

It’s been a great year, promising continued success in 2010 for Networked Insights:

• Client use of the company’s flagship SocialSense application increased significantly: corresponding revenue is up 240%.
• We’re hiring! We’ve recently added a few, top-notch employees. When we fill our open positions in early 2010, we’ll have grown 25%.

Highlights were many. They include a major, ongoing partnership with print and online publishing giant IDG and successful engagements with American Family Insurance, Fox Interactive Media, Oscar Mayer, Toshiba, and many others.

We enjoyed a slew of national press, including coverage in BusinessWeek, featuring an analysis of Superbowl ads and their engagement on social-media sites. And we increasingly became a source for insights on social media, as in this story about Facebook at Bloomberg.com.

We’re thankful to customers, employees, investors, conference organizers, partners, and more. So many people over the year have contributed to our growth by writing about us, making connections and introductions, or giving me the opportunity to take the stage and convey our vision of what is possible when we focus powerful analytics on the greatest data set of consumer information that’s ever existed.

Here’s to an insightful 2010!