Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research™

2012 Most Read NGMR Blog Posts

From Text Analytics to Market Research Awards and Predictions, 2012 was a busy year within the Next Gen Market Research community. Below are the 15 most popular blog posts of the year in rank order.

Practical Sentiment Analysis and Lies
The Year of Text Analytics
Next Gen Market Research C-Suite Predictions
Text Analysis of [...]

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Several Impressive Nominations - Three Winners

Each year the 20,000 Next Gen Market Research group members are asked to nominate the firms and individuals they believe are most innovative. This year our eight Regional Moderators (The NGMR Board of Advisors) carefully considered nominations from 30 firms and several talented market research professionals across three categories.

This week at [...]

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Today I have the pleasure of interviewing a good friend and fellow Next Gen market Research entrepreneur Kristin Luck.
Many of you who attend the research industry conferences will already know her well. Kristin is President at Decipher, a firm I’ve had the pleasure of working with on a few recent occasions. Prior to Decipher Kristin [...]

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Top Market Researcher Twitter Contest

This week ResearchLive Magazine which I believe is affiliated with the UK Market Research Organization (MRS), together with Jon Puleston of research firm GMI, is hosting a Twitter contest among market researchers. I was one of 20 market researchers nominated as the most active tweeting about marketing research. If you are [...]

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The 2011 Next Gen Market Research Disruptive Innovation Winners
Thought Leadership:

Ipsos Loyalty (Wallet Allocation Rule)

Research Concept Deployment:

InsightExpress (Ignite Network)

Non-Traditional Provider (Big Data):

RapLeaf

Individual:

Dr. Bill MacElroy, Chairman, Socratic Technologies

Marc Dresner of IIR will be posting a follow up on The Market Research Event (TMRE) blog with a more detailed summary of the awards ceremony [...]

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Congratulations (Three New Categories)
Ahead of The Market Research Event (TMRE), The Next Gen Market Research Board of Directors and myself have been hard at work reading the many excellent nominations submitted for the 2011 NGMR Disruptive Innovation Awards. I would especially like to thank board members Jan Fager (Managing Director Swedish Marketing Federation), Michael Gadd [...]

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Celebrating The Most Innovative in Market Research
Blogging today to let you know that after discussions with TMRE and EXPLOR we have agreed to extend the nomination deadlines for both the NGMR Awards and the EXPLOR Awards until 5:00PM EST Monday September 12th.
This is due to a significant number of last minute requests, and in consideration [...]

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UPDATED: Scroll to bottom of this post for winner and quiz answers

I’ve closed contest entries into the NGMR Quiz for The Market Research Event giveaway.
Entries are now being tabulated. Please check back this afternoon at 4:30pm EST when I announce the answers and the winner.
Others interested in attending TMRE may use Code:TMRE11NGMR to get a twenty [...]

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Call for Innovation in Market Research Nominations
I’m blogging today to announce the call for nominations of the EXPLOR Innovation in Research, and the NGMR Disruptive Innovation Awards.
Past Winners and Finalists Include,
Companies: 3M Corporation, LinkedIn, Facebook, Microsoft and McDonald’s
Agencies: Communispace, Nielsen Media Research, iModerate and RapLeaf
Individuals: AJ Johnson of IPSOS and Sean Conry of [...]

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