Here are the top 20 stories discussed on the Twitter #MRX community in 2011, based on the number of unique retweets received in their first week. Continue reading »

Of the 1,633 unique links shared by the #MRX Twitter community last week, here are the top 10 that were retweeted the most: Continue reading »

You can tell it’s almost Autumn; the days are getting a bit shorter, cooler weather is creeping in (slowly, but surely) and there is a flurry of activity as everyone prepares for many of the big MR industry conferences and events: AMA, ESOMAR, NewMR and TMRE. Things are no different here: I am grateful to have been asked to participate in all of them, plus a few smaller ones. I’m looking forward to each for different reasons, so I thought I’d do a little rundown of the events I’m going to be involved with and why I’m excited by them. Here they are! Continue reading »

A few weeks ago I was honored to be asked by Join the Dots to be interviewed by them as part of their re-branding launch. The topics we covered were a wide swath related current trends in the market research industry as well as the future of our profession. Continue reading »

Have you ever been really excited about an event, but the reality is far less than you imagined and you end up disappointed? Well, that was NOT the case on Day 1 of the ARF re:Think 2011! Quite the opposite; I have so far been blown away by every aspect of this conference. The ARF deserves kudos for putting on one hell of a show! Continue reading »

There is a lot of noise about ‘DIY research’, most of it seems to be about how it is a ‘threat’ or is somehow wrong. Neither of these is true, unless you want the world to stay the way it is. Progress is always going on, and to decry something for which there is a need is simply not going to work. MR has to embrace change. You can’t stop the future. Continue reading »