Poynter

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• How many members should an MROC have?

  
  The Future Place Blog — Authority: 125
  One of the questions I get asked from time to time is how many members should an online research community have. Clearly the answer depends on what the community is there to achieve and what the budget is. But I still get pressed for an answer. After asking around recently I have come up with my best estimates, and ...
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• Wintry weather prompts school closings – Worcester Telegram

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 171
  CTV.ca Wintry weather prompts school closings Worcester Telegram Worcester and several other school districts in Central Massachusetts have canceled school today because of the wintry weather. A mix of snow and sleet hit ... Use caution on roads, brace for heavy snow later Kansas City ...
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• 12/8/09 Scores

  
  OzarksSports.Net — Authority: 136
  Clever & Miller watch as Jeremy Dresslaer hits two of his 30 points Saw a great early season game tonight in Miller as the Cardinals took on Clever.  Clever was fresh off a championship in their own tournament while it was the first game of the season for Miller.  The Cardinals jumped out to an 11-7 lead ...
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• Networks change power structures

  
  The Future Place Blog — Authority: 125
  For a couple of years I have been pointing out to some of the larger companies that Web 2.0 and social media are changing power structures in companies. In the past, the people in the top few positions in most research companies were the most knowledgeable, and often the most skilled, a combination of experience and ...
  3 days ago

• Interviews Worth Reading: Pete Hamill

  
  Talking with Tim — Authority: 124
  This Wednesday, legendary journalist and novelist Pete Hamill will speak as part of the The Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series in Syracuse, New York. As noted at its Facebook page , the series  is “the largest library-related lecture series in the country”. That’s one heck of a claim. In preparation for ...
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• Wake-Up Call: Holiday parties go to pot

  
  The Latest Word — Authority: 644
  At holiday parties this weekend, everyone was talking about pot. I havent been asked about marijuana this much since my first day of college in 1972, when I wore a hippie-print dress and my...
  4 days ago

• Will MROCs replace BBGs?

  
  The Future Place Blog — Authority: 125
  To a considerable extent the difference between BBGs (Bulletin Board Groups) and online research communities (aka MROCs) is simply a generational difference. When BBGs were developed they reflected current practice in terms of how the Internet was being used to create discussions, i.e. bulletin boards. Although some ...
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• How Do You Correct Errors in Video Stories?

  
  Prof. Kobre's Guide to Videojournalism — Authority: 127
  Craig Silverman is a Montreal-based journalist and author who specializes in mistakes. Not his mistakes -- yours. And other journalists. More accurately (and we do want to be especially careful today), he writes a column , maintains a blog , and has even written an entire book about factual errors committed by ...
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• Interesting article on the climate emails debacle

  
  The Future Place Blog — Authority: 125
  The Economist has a good article that sums up the latest picture about the recent release of emails from the Climate Research Unit. This article and a similar article in the New Scientist seem to net out to: 1) The data have not been fabricated by the scientists 2) Some of the scientists have sought to stop climate ...
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• Evidence based decision making

  
  The Future Place Blog — Authority: 125
  Earlier today I was reading an Open University study note on research methodology and I came across the sentence "The report is a presentation of argument based on evidence, not a history of a research project". I wish the market research industry would consider instigating a set of basic tenets that we should all ...
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• Tiger Woods and Why We Won’t Be Following the Media Pack

  
  pacificEyeWitness.org — Authority: 142
  Tiger Woods is the third most tweeted topic worldwide this morning. That’s fortunate or unfortunate, as the case may be. Media coverage  on the golfing legend, considered valid in light of his public profile and his family man image, raises some ethical considerations for news media, at least here. Why?On two key ...
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• Using Participant Blogs in Market Research

  
  The Future Place Blog — Authority: 125
  As part of the book I am looking at how market researchers have used blogs as research tools, specifically where they have recruited respondents and enabled them to create a blog as part of a research topic.Adding together my experience, colleagues’ experiences, and conference papers my views are that blog projects ...
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• Whys has online qual not taken off?

  
  The Future Place Blog — Authority: 125
  OK, I accept that there is lots of online qual in absolute terms! But, if we look back to 1999, online quant was about 2% of global quant revenues, now, according to the latest ESOMAR Global Report, online quant is the single largest modality by revenue for quant research. By contrast, online qualitative has a longer ...
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• My take on qual versus quant

  
  The Future Place Blog — Authority: 125
  This post started life as part of a comment I added to a post by Surinder on his Research Talk site, but has now taken a life of its own! The growth of interest in online research communities, buzz and blog mining, Twitter, e-ethnography, and semiotics has re-opened the discussion about what is qual and what is quant. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Video: How To Write Your First Non-Fiction Book

  
  Writers and Authors — Authority: 122
  Self-Publishing Guru Dan Poynter explains and educates new writers on how to write publish and promote their first book.
  2 weeks ago

• What are the key issues about Web survey systems?

  
  The Future Place Blog — Authority: 125
  As part of the book I am writing for Wiley, a handbook of online and social media research I have been working this week on the systems that companies use to conduct online surveys, i.e. Web surveys. I would really appreciate hearing people’s thoughts on the structure I am thinking about using.The first level of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tweet whilst you present!

  
  The Future Place Blog — Authority: 125
  Here is a link to a story about a really interesting new app that takes the Tweetference concept one step further, giving presenters the chance to auto-tweet whilst they present! The method is that you download the app and then embed tweets on the notes part of the page. As you present that page the tweet gets sent. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shame on you Google, you either oppose racism or support it

  
  The Future Place Blog — Authority: 125
  The BBC (and many others) are reporting that Google has refused to remove a shockingly racist picture of Michelle Obama. They are not even prepared to manually alter their search algorithm to ensure that anybody searching for an image of Michelle Obama is not presented with this image as the top hit. Google seem to ...
  2 weeks ago

• When a Tweetference goes wrong

  
  The Future Place Blog — Authority: 125
  This post by Danah Boyd is a painfully honest story of how a Tweetference turned into a virtual mugging of a speaker. I will not tell too much of the story, because I cannot do Danahs story justice, and I strongly recommend you read her post. Danah was a speaker at the Web2.0 Expo. She was not told in advance...
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• Should we ban virtual war crimes?

  
  The Future Place Blog — Authority: 125
  The BBC have an interesting story about a review of video games. The review looked at whether video games allowed players to commit acts that in the real world would count as war crimes. Evidently the games varied from ones that did have penalties for players who needlessly killed civilians, through to games that ...
  2 weeks ago

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