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)

Sponsored by KL Communications (http://www.klcommunications.com), THE
experts in Customer Co-Creation, whose proprietary CrowdWeaving™ platform is powering the next generation of online insight communities.

Check out KL Communications’ latest newsletter for
insights into implementation of novel MR tools & techniques:

http://www.klcimages.com/klcnewsletter/marchnewsletter

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.

IBM Watson tech offered to mobile developers; How CMO & CIO help MR; Bill Harvey discusses pervasiveness of mobile devices (RBDR–3/4/2014)

Sponsored today and this week by Toluna (http://www.toluna.com), bringing people and brands together in the world’s largest social voting community.

Today: 1) The IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge is underway, a global opportunity for mobile app developers to create new ones that use the IBM Watson cognitive innovation. 2) Mary Shacklett’s thought piece on corporate CMO-CIO collaborations makes three points that underscore MR’s dependency on other departments. 3) Bill Harvey discusses data and other elements that portray the impotence of second screen with TV viewing.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Three professors endorse Conjoint Analysis for exit polling; Millward Brown & ZappiStore roll out 6-hour, DIY copy testing; 48% of U.S. population is “Always-On” (RBDR–3/3/2014)

Sponsored today and this week by Toluna (http://www.toluna.com), bringing people and brands together in the world’s largest social voting community.

Today: 1) Professors from MIT, Stanford and Georgetown have authored a paper that endorses the use of conjoint analysis to bring important understanding to exit polling. 2) Millward Brown’s new DIY eStatic service allows users to conduct self-service print and advertising copy-testing in six hours. 3) Vivaldi Partners’ Always-On 2014 Digital Consumer Report says 48% of the U.S. population has at least 3 digital devices that they use from at least three different physical locations multiple times each day.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

India’s polling scandal; new Nielsen COO, Wells Fargo CDO; Katy Perry MR (RBDR–2/27/2014)

Sponsored by KL Communications (http://www.klcommunications.com), THE
experts in Customer Co-Creation, whose proprietary CrowdWeaving™ platform is powering the next generation of online insight communities.

Today: 1) India faces a polling scandal after hidden camera conversations with leading polling organizations shows 11 of 13 willing to tweak or mislead results. 2) TAM (Kantar and Nielsen) register to provide TV Ratings in India after the country’s High Court temporarily halts implementation of new TV Ratings business guidelines. 3) RBRDR News Notes: New Nielsen COO Brian West, Wells Fargo hires A. Charles Thomas to run its data operations and teenage-focused retailer Claire’s hires Katy Perry to develop a new jewelry line after extensive MR shows her to be a global “superstar.”

KL Communications CEO Kevin Lonnie’s shares his thoughts about gamification here:

http://klcommunications.com/the-gaming-of-market-research-2/