Do You Speak Teen? Odintext Announces 2ND Annual List Of Top 10 Slang Terms

16 Jan 2017

Keeping up with youth-speak or slang is a constant challenge for marketers, researchers and parents, alike. Here's an article which tests your knowledge and provides some helpful definitions afterwards!   How Text Analytics Can Help Marketers Move at the...

Hints and Tips – Best practice for competitor dashboards

05 Jan 2017

Following an enquiry from a client, I recently appealed to the ICG Member Forum for advice on establishing and using competitor dashboards to communicate research and other relevant data to a broad client audience. It quickly became clear that there are three broad...

Mind Your Hinglish – the Language of Online Indians

04 Jan 2017

The rise and rise of Hinglish India has 22 major languages, written in 13 different scripts and spoken in 720 dialects.   No wonder then that the 1.3 billion Indians need to mix it up to understand each other.  Statistics on the number who speak, read and...

Hints and Tips – Cyber Security

04 Jan 2017

Introduction to Cyber Security – starts 9th January Future Learn is owned by The Open University.  The organisation offer a range of free 'taster' courses accessible online (mobile, tablet and desktop).  I have taken part in a couple...

The small business guide to …

08 Dec 2016

Sage One, together with startups, has produced a number of free 'Start-up 101' guides for small business.  So far, the series includes; Setting up your company Managing your finances Building a winning team Making the most of the cloud The small...

Trump and the opinion polls

06 Dec 2016

Trump and the opinion polls – a review of the e-group's views by John Attfield Immediately following the US Presidential Election on 8 November 2016 the ICG e-group hosted a lively and fascinating debate in about the results and the opinion polls, running...