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Which country are you based in?
UK
What sort of market research are you involved in?
I am a UK based market researcher working with Virtual Surveys and The Future Place.
Website:
http://thefutureplace.typepad.com/the_future_place/

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What makes a great conference?

Back in June-August I ran a survey amongst market researchers and what makes a great conference. The report is now ready and can be downloaded from http://thefutureplace.typepad.com/the_future_place/2009/10/what-makes-a-great-conference-the-report.html

Posted on October 19, 2009 at 1:16pm —

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A Taxonomy of Research Communities

Because the field of online research communities is developing so rapidly it is important to create a structure to help understand the options that confront researchers proposing to use online research communities to gain insight.

The key issues that determine the nature of a community are:

1. Short term versus continuous
A short term community typically from 3 days to three months, the alternative is to set the community as an ongoing project.

2. Closed versus open
Most online research commu… Continue

Posted on October 9, 2009 at 10:06am — 1 Comment

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Feedback from ESOMAR Congress

The timing could not be worse, at the height of a global recession, with hundreds of market researchers having been made redundant recently, ESOMAR hosts its annual Congress in the fantastically beautiful and expensive town of Montreux, on the shores of Lac Leman, an hour’s train ride from Geneva, deep in the awe inspiring Swiss Alps. Because the location was less accessible, and because rehearsals and workshops were on the Tuesday, many delegates had to commit to arriving on the Monday and leav… Continue

Posted on September 19, 2009 at 1:49pm —

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Riding for Oxfam

In July my son Will and I are riding 1000 miles (1600KM) from Land's End to John o' Groats and will be raising money for Oxfam. You can read about our plans at http://thefutureplace.typepad.com/lejog/.

If you would like to make a donation you can do it at our Oxfam justgiving page http://www.justgiving.com/poynter2009.

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Posted on April 14, 2009 at 12:00pm —

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How bad is the economy for market research?

I have just writte a longish post on my blog that discusses the economy and its impact on the market research industry. The short version is that I think market research is heading for a very difficult time, for the long version check out my article.

Posted on February 5, 2009 at 9:29pm —

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At 12:27pm on February 26, 2009, Jason Ho said…
Hi Ray,

I am well, thank you! :)

I have started my own little fieldwork house (Fieldwork 360 Pte Ltd) but continue to work very closely with Colmar Brunton. :) How about yourself?

J
At 7:34am on February 24, 2009, Jason Ho said…
Hi Ray,

How are you?
Haven't been as active as I wanted to be here at mrspace but its great to see lots of participation and activity!

Its been a year since the domain 'mr-space.com' was registered and pointed to 'mrspace.ning.com' but I think the subdomain 'mrspace.ning.com' is doing fine. If you agree, I shall discontinue the domain upon expiry.

Cheers,
J
At 4:14pm on September 23, 2008, Matt Rhodes said…
Thanks Ray,

Was great to win obviously but also good that the research / marketing industry beat others at the moment - I know they were looking for an idea they thought would survive the current climate...

Matt
At 6:41pm on April 21, 2008, Jason Ho said…
Hi Ray,

I've sent you a link to a mrspace.corank.com site but realise you are already a member. That in my opinion is one cool white-label site for social bookmarking/ bookmark sharing to serve the mr space. Allows posting of your own writing so can serve as a job posting section as well.

If you think its useful, I will point a subdomain of http://mr-space.com to it e.g. http://bm.mr-space.com (or any you think is appropriate).

Also, I've pointed http://wiki.mr-space.com to http://mrspace.wetpaint.com and should work after url propagation (24 hours or so)

Jason
At 1:23pm on March 20, 2008, Tom Ewing said…
Thanks Ray - hope you like the paper!

This is a terrific initiative BTW.
At 1:34pm on March 12, 2008, Mario Menti said…
OK, let's talk next week. I should be around on both days.
At 12:53pm on March 12, 2008, Jason Ho said…
Hi Ray, I've pointed http://mr-space.com to http://mrspace.ning.com too.
At 5:01am on March 10, 2008, Vincent Fong said…
Hi Ray, I joined MRSpace to today and just emailed Eric Bell that I thought the MRSpace was a really neat idea.

I'm hoping MRSpace will continue to develop into a truly web2.0 space for researchers.

Kind regards,
Vincent
At 4:42pm on March 5, 2008, Mario Menti said…
Ray - I registered http://mrspace.org and have it redirect here. If you like and are willing to spend the extra $4.95 a month, we could use the mrspace.org domain for this network, and lose the "ning" URL..

Cheers,
Mario.
At 7:43pm on February 27, 2008, Mario Menti said…
(sorry for reposting this, just realised that I should have replied to the comment thread rather than leaving a comment on my own profile page in reply..)

Yes, in the sense that Ning can act as a container for OpenSocial gadgets (if you enable gadgets when you create your network). Only proof-of-concept at the moment, but by adding the gadget to your page, you could automatically be added to a research panel, and get survey invites etc. through that gadget.
 
 

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