Archive for November, 2009

What has Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus got to do with market research? Well, note the crop. But as nice as it is, it’s only the bigger picture that tells us the actual story.
This is at the heart of the next issue for discussion; the ‘new’ (?!) practice of listening online.
Of course ‘listening’ itself, as [...]


 

 
There’s been a lot of talk about engaging research participants in this ‘new’ research paradigm.
I’m focusing on qualitative market research here because firstly, that’s my thing…
: )
…and secondly, because I hear that ‘engagement’, within the context of market research online communities, is community-nirvana. The ‘best’ communities are engaged communities.
This strikes me as, paradoxically, both obvious [...]


I’ve just come back from a fantastic trip to Chicago where I attended the ESOMAR Online Research 2009 conference. You can find Jeffrey Henning’s brilliant recap here (he pretty much live-blogged it – very impressive!).
Anyway, not surprisingly, there was lots of talk of ‘new’.
And it would have been easy to come away with the message [...]