The Survey Geek

Category: Conferences

  • The latest online panel dust up

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    Gregg Peterson's post earlier this week on this blog about the Panel of Panelists at the CASRO Online Conference created quite a stir. I saw an unusual number of pageviews, there was a fair amount of retweeting of the link and other industry commentators worked a similar theme. It came on the heels of Ron…

  • The end of “don’t ask, don’t tell” in online survey research?

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    My colleague, Gregg Peterson, attended last week's CASRO Online Research Conference and has sent me this post. The era of "don't ask, don't tell" in the world of commercial market research may well have ended last week in Las Vegas at the annual CASRO Online Research Conference.    The purveyors of online surveyors came face-to-face with…

  • Amsterdam Syndrome

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    Back in September I asked my friend and colleague, Theo Downes-LeGuin, to write a blog post that summarized his reaction to the ESOMAR Congress.  He wanted to take some time to let it all sink in and has now sent me something.  Here it is. After 2 days at the ESOMAR Congress in September, I…

  • A Contrast of Conferences: Part 1 – IIR Technology-Driven MR

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    My colleague, Theo Downes-LeGuin, has agreed to a return engagement as a guest blogger and to share his impressions from two MR conferences he attended earlier in the year. This is the first of two installments. I attended two very similar conferences separated by a month and 800 miles earlier this summer. IIR's Technology Driven…

  • ESOMAR 3D

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    This is an unabashed plug for an upcoming conference: ESOMAR's 3D Digital Dimensions 2011 to be held October 26-28 in Miami. (Disclosure: I am chair of the Programme Committee.) This will be the latest in a series of thematic ESOMAR conferences that more than any other has charted the evolution of online research from panels…

  • Two cheers for mobile: MRMW 2011

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    I spent two days this week in suburban Atlanta at Market Research in the Mobile World 2011 (MRMW 2011), a conference as its name suggests (almost) totally focused on mobile research. It had an imposing agenda with a whopping 29 presentations all in the same room over two days. The presentations were grouped into four…

  • HSRM Day 4 AM

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    The final session of this conference offered five papers under the general heading of "Potential for Innovations with New Technology and Communication Tools." (Here I disclose that I presented in this session with help from two colleagues.) The papers ran the gamut from better tools for interviewers to do what they always have done to…

  • HSRM Day 3 PM

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    I’ve just returned from the AAPOR Annual Conference where I was reminded by one of the HSRM Conference organizers that I never finished my HSRM posts.  Shame on me.  So picking up where I left off, the afternoon session consisted of six papers on the general topic, “Building the Health Data Sets of Tomorrow.”  The…

  • HSRM Day 3 AM

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    This morning's topic is "Optimizing Health Survey Strategies." Let's be clear about one thing: rumors of the death of probability sampling are greatly exaggerated. The NHIS uses a high quality sampling frame and routinely get 95%. The NSFG gets 79%. There is a lot of money and time spent to get these kinds of outcomes…

  • HSRM Day 2 Postscript

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    The discussion after the PM session at HSRM took an interesting turn when a number of people questioned whether we were increasing respondent burden to unsustainable levels. In the MR side of the industry we clearly have gone over the top with many questionnaires, but mostly those questionnaires offend with their repetition and downright tediousness.…