One of the biggest challenges for me as a blogger is finding the time to write about every idea or news item that catches my eye. There is so much great information being generated and disseminated out there that it …

I've taken the plunge and joined Quora, a great community that combines the best elements of crowdsourcing, wikis, social networking, and topic focused communities.

I think it will prove to be interesting on several levels, but my primary goal is …

Regular readers know that I think a lot about the future of the market research industry. I make it my business to follow as much news as possible, network with peers, talk with thought leaders, and collect my own primary …

by Di Tunney & Rachel Francis for Merlien Institute

Gathering customer insights from social media communities is rapidly becoming a viable alternative to focus groups and in-depth interviews. As social media analytics evolve and improve, quantitative research is also being …

Gaming and NewMR – Online Event, 20 January 2011

The Gaming Event is an exploration of the context and opportunities created for market research by gaming. The Event has eight great speakers, each of whom will be adding a different …

By Kevin Lonnie, CEO of KL Communications

“The most imaginative influences often come from the most unlikely sources.”

The above is a quote from a recent TED Conference on nurturing the creative process.

http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html

This theorem appears to be in …

By Prashant Hari

A number of these thoughts have been building in my head for sometime and this is a fairly exhaustive piece….you have been warned!

It’s no doubt that innovation in the Social Media and Digital space is moving …

As a follow-up to Andrew Jeavon’s post about Twitter and our post a while back about Social Media by the numbers comes this great infographic from Tech King: Everything you need to know about Social Media.

I think the graphic …

Have you ever heard of the Twitter “firehose” or the “sprinkler” ? If you have, you have probably been doing software development work on connecting to Twitter. The “firehose” and the “sprinkler” are just two of the terms Twitter use …

By Prashant Hari

Skype came and it conquered. It very quickly became the “norm” as far as Online voice chatting is concerned.

So what is Mingleverse? Mingleverse offers virtual online voice chat rooms called “MingleRooms”. You can instantly invite friends …