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10/31/08

LinkedIn launches online survey sample service

LinkedIn, a social network for business professionals (learn more here), last week announced a new service that allows researchers to access their database of members for research. This service provides access to business and IT professionals that are typically hard to reach through surveys, and with the extensive profiles of members, targeting specific groups will […]

By David KennedyRead More

10/27/08

Another great tool…Twitter search

We blogged before about Google Trends and Google Insights, and now there is another online tool to add to your repertoire.  Twitter Search allows you see what the masses of microbloggers are saying about you, your brand, or anything else you can imagine. Another great way to get a pulse of what is being said […]

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10/24/08

Service and the airlines

This is the sixth and final post on our recent trip to Africa.  To see the our other posts, click here.  I’m writing this blog on a business trip, sitting in the middle row of a packed plane.  I’ve just been offered a drink for a cost of two dollars, and I paid $15 or […]

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10/21/08

Presidential polling

Yep, it’s political polling season.  But if you’re tired of Gallup, Rasmussen, Zogby and others, here are some different “polls” we’ve recently run across. Methodologically robust?  Not quite.  Entertaining?  Absolutely. NOTE: Many links removed because they were no longer active. Amazon Meters measures support by comparing Halloween face mask sales.  (For a related article, click […]

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10/17/08

Ethnography as it should be

This is the fifth in a series of posts on our recent trip to Africa. To see our other posts, click here. While in South Africa, we stayed at a classic game lodge.  We ate impala at night and we slept in a tent (albeit the most luxurious tent I’ve ever seen), and in the […]

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10/13/08

18 Steps to preventing and catching online cheaters

In a recent post, I talked about the problem of professional respondents, and specifically people who cheat to earn their incentive.  At the end of the post, I posed the question, “what can we do?” Here I provide some basics on how to ensure the quality of your online data. Survey Design Screeners. Screeners shouldn’t […]

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