ICG adds video to website...
Friday 25th November 2011
The ICG has added video to its resources section. Our first selection is from the ICG Question Time held in London on 16th November 2011.
Click here to go directly to the new videos…
Welcome to the first Indie Online!
Wednesday 28th September 2011
Click on this editorial first to find out what's featured in our first edition of the Indie Online. There are articles to make you smile, to amaze and to refresh your thinking.
Start reading the first Indie Online here…
Hotels from hell
Tuesday 27th September 2011
Having to travel around the country is one of the stresses of the job, so researchers tend to care about their hotels. Jan Taber takes us on a guided tour of some of the less salubrious hotels she's been to recently.
Read Jan’s review here ...
Photos from my travels
Tuesday 27th September 2011
Ben Lovejoy shares some spectacular photos from his moderating dates around the world.
Read more about Ben’s travels
The ICG’s egroup roundup
Tuesday 27th September 2011
What's been discussed, sorted, recommended, moaned about, noticed, disapproved of, laughed at etc. etc. recently on the ICG's wonderful egroup.
Listen in on the egroup’s conversations ....
Are Face-to-Face Research Methods Irrelevant?
Tuesday 27th September 2011
Now that we communicate so much via online, and our digital tools are so central to our lives, what role is there for face to face interviewing? Is eyeball to eyeball contact still valuable? Lesley Thompson discusses.
Lesley gets up close and personal ...
News from the ICG’s Webmaster
Tuesday 27th September 2011
Liz Montgomery talks us through the gestation and birth of our new website.
Read the story so far here ...
New members, summer 2011
Tuesday 27th September 2011
Our membership is expanding again! Here's a list of new expert, independent researchers. Welcome to you all - we hope you'll get involved and get the maximum from your membership.
Click here to see the full list ...
The Indie is moving online!
Wednesday 29th June 2011
It's only appropriate with a fantastic new website up and running that The Indie makes the most of what theicg.co.uk offers.
So we're moving the newsletter online.
ICG launches new website
Tuesday 28th June 2011
The ICG premiers its new look website, reflecting the new identity for the ICG, at Marketing Week Live's Insight Show.
Read more about the ICG’s website launch…
Work - Life Balance in Deepest Dorset
Monday 27th June 2011
Graham Booth gives us advice on how to juggle proposals, debriefs, organic gardening, four children, a major renovation project and 'quality family time'.
Find out more about courgettes, babies and Powerpoint
The cost of bad questionnaire design
Monday 27th June 2011
Andy Allwood raises the question of the impact poor questionnaire design has on the quality of samples in future research projects. Should the MRS require MR professionals to leave their respondents as willing as they found them?
Read Andy’s concerns and suggestions to the MRS
Defining and measuring happiness?
Sunday 26th June 2011
Sheila Keegan of Campbell Keegan takes a fresh look at the 'measuring wellbeing' debate, and argues that we already know a lot about what the 'happiness' factors are in our lives.
Read more about what you need to be happy
Online Brand Communities
Monday 18th April 2011
Our April lunchtime talk was from Andrew Reid, MD of Verve Partners. They have advanced the use of these communities, and Andrew suggests that consultants can work with them and their clients, and not regard them as a threat. He looks at trends, methods and likely developments in his presentation.
Download Andy’s presentation
Andy Dexter on "Truth"
Thursday 17th February 2011
We welcomed Andy as our January 2011 speaker. Andy is well known in the research industry worldwide as a practitioner and entrepreneur, and frequent MRS presenter.
Read more about Andy Dexter on "Truth"…