Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

ARF: Innovate, Google Glass; Mixed mode data MR is “garbage”(RBDR–3/25/2014)

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Today: 1) 2 early news tidbits from the ARF Annual Conference that RBDR will follow through on for details. 2) Keynote Systems’ survey of 1600 professionals shows that mobile developers’ availability of mobile testing tools is their biggest challenge. 3) Paul Richard McCullough’s Greenbook Blog column explains that something many researchers do, mixed mode research, is garbage.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

uSamp collaboration goal: happy panelists (by helping them make money); Facebook’s quiet facial recognition technology; Fuguitt discusses her 1st ARF year with Bob Lederer (RBDR–3/24/2013)

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Today: 1) Keeping online panelists satisfied and looking for more participation is frequently centered around panelist interest in earning more money. uSamp’s “precedent-setting” collaboration with CrowdComputing Systems (CCS) will provide its 12-million online panelists the opportunity to make money– a little by answering a few CCS client-inspired questions, all the way up to potentially a lot by helping CCS customers document activity at a local store using their mobile phone.

2) Facebook’s quiet facial recognition technology, with accuracy as high as 97.25%, is being kept under wraps due to consumer concerns about the technology if used on Facebook.

3) Australia’s market research society, AMSRO, announces a trustmark seal that can be earned and flaunted by association members for exemplary privacy standards.

4) Gayle Fuguitt chairs her second ARF Annual Conference and speaks to RBDR’s Bob Lederer about her first year accomplishments

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Google’s Smartwatch; Impact of young people on MR (RBDR–3/20/2014)

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Today: 1) Google is readying its smart watch, which requires the attention of app developers to provide popular and practical tools, including some enabling market research with its wearers. 2) WPP Chief Executive Sir Martin Sorrell told the MRS Annual Conference that young people will be a boon for market research. 3) TVB Chief Research & Analytics Officer Stacey Lynn Schulman speaks about some problems that research functions are having meeting the demands and expectations of entry-level researchers.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

CEOs & CMOs share onus of making Big Data work (RBDR–3/19/2014)

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Today: 1) Bob Lederer reviews IBM’s new Big Data study has several positive and some other negative aspects. He also analyzes the underlying ramifications of the study results, noting why CEOs and CMOs share the onus of finding the Big Data solution for their enterprise. 2) What’s the financial impact of significant use of online customer data? A UK study reveals that number. 3) Bill Harvey discusses how far neuroscience can take a researcher with unconscious decision making, and how traditional tools can help fill the remaining information void.

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Twitter “Call-to-Click”; Twitter for customized marketing not working (RBDR–3/18/2014)

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Today: 1) Twitter innovates and is testing “Call-to-Click,” a way for mobile Twitter users to directly phone an advertiser. 2) Twitter marketers reveal many good things and some frustrations about using Twitter to market its brands in a study from Social Media Marketing University. 3) A pair of Chinese researchers conduct a 6-million tweet, 6-month-long study of opinion formation on Twitter. They say opinions form rapidly, solidify quickly and are hard to change once in place.