Articles with the keyword “online research”

Online samples – where lighting a few fires might help

By Tim Macer on 31st Jul 2010.

Will a new and much-needed initiative to provide industry-wide tools to monitor online sample quality put fire into the hands of mortals?

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Where are the tools to enable Web 2.0 research?

By Tim Macer on 16th Nov 2009.

Researchers cannot afford to ignore Web 2.0 approaches to research, as Forrester’s analyst Tamara Barber makes clear in a persuasive article on Research Live, in which she settles on market research online communities (MROCs) as being the most effective way to achieve this.  How to do Web 2.0 research, from a methodological point of view, [...]

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Getting a better response online (and offline)

By Tim Macer on 10th Sep 2009.

The second day of the IWIS09 Internet Workshop in South Korea focused on practical measures and finding in improving response in online surveys (in addtion to those already reported here and

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Korean insights into MR

By Tim Macer on 10th Sep 2009.

More insights into Korean market and social research emerged in day two of the Internet Survey Workshop in Korea.

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Online is the future for national statistics

By Tim Macer on 9th Sep 2009.

I’m at the First International Workshop on Internet Survey at Daejeon, Korea. It is hosted by Statistics Korea (or Kostat) which has put together an impressive roster of presentations on leading edge thinking in using online research for public policy research and other nationally representative surveys: eighteen speakers, fourteen from around the world, and a [...]

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Translation on the fly (or on the sly)

By Tim Macer on 7th Sep 2009.

A new plug-in to the Firefox web browser that promises to take webpages in any unfamiliar language and, as you browse, translate them into English or the language of your choice.

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Korea National Statistics gets interested in Web surveys

By Newsdesk on 10th Jul 2009.

Internet surveys may now be the favoured method for a majority of commercial market research surveys, yet uptake has been slower in areas of social policy research and particularly official statistics. When internet penetration is high – and globally, South Korea is among the highest – Internet surveys start to become useful for those compiling [...]

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Technology Transformation Stream given “A” grades

By Newsdesk on 7th Jul 2009.

The influential Research Conference Report featured the stream of technology papers chaired and edited by Tim Macer at the MRS Research 2009 Conference as one of six it selected for coverage from over forty presentations and workshops [...]

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