Resources for the Research Community
I spent most of last week in Atlanta at the Insight Innovation Exchange. All I can say is, “Whew!” There must have been 150 presentations over the three days, most a merciful 20 minutes with a few meatier 40 minute sessions mixed in. Coming on the heels of MRMW in Chicago just two weeks ago, [...]
I spent two days last week in Chicago at Market Research in the Mobile World (MRMW). I now have been to all four of the North American versions of this event, all the way back to Atlanta in 2011. Last week’s iteration caused me to go back and look at my post about the Atlanta event as [...]
Last week the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) held its 69th annual conference in sunny (and hot) Anaheim, California. My biggest takeaway from this year’s conference is that AAPOR is a very healthy organization. AAPOR attendees were genuinely happy to be at the conference, enthusiastic about AAPOR, and excited about the conference material. Many [...]
At the end of January, Canada’s Market Research and Intelligence Association (MRIA) presented the eighth annual Net Gain conference. This one-day conference explores cutting-edge trends in the market research industry. This year’s conference included presentations on mobile market research, the growth of automation in research, customer communities, and behavioral economics, among others. My summary of [...]
Ray Poynter, author of The Handbook of Online and Social Media Research, this week presented his fourth annual Festival of NewMR, a global series of webinars staggered around the clock to make sure that participants from all over the world could participate. This annual event really broadens conference participation, being free to attendees, thanks to [...]
Back in September we attended the GeekWire Summit to learn about the latest trends in technology development. GeekWire is an independent news site and online community covering many forms of innovation coming out of the Pacific Northwest. The Summit included conversations with people from organizations as diverse as Microsoft, HBO, DoubleDown Interactive, Zillow, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Chase Jarvis photography, a venture capital firm, [...]
Discovery Research Group, more specifically our Focalytic brand, recently attended the Market Research Event in Nashville, TN (10/21/13 – 10/23/13). When we realized the amount of Twitter “chatter” that was surrounding the speakers and presenters at the event, we decided to measure what they were talking about to see if we could pull some key insights from the conference. [...]
