Facebook and recruitment – never the twain shall meet?

03 Jul 2016

Following an Egroup conversation, Tom Woodnutt has put together a short article that looks at the issues, value and risks in using Facebook for recruitment for quant and qual (mostly online qual projects).  Is it dangerous, or simply a new tool in our...

20 Habits of Brilliant Presenters

03 Jul 2016

Learning how to deliver an effective presentation is one of the fundamental business skills that we need to ensure that those findings and insights that we have slaved so hard to uncover are listen to, absorbed and acted upon. With many thanks to GoToMeeting blog here...

New General Data Protection Regulation

15 Jun 2016

This article, orginally published in February 2016, has been updated (October 2016) to reflect new developments… The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) seeks to strengthen and unify data proection for indivdiuals within the EU, and also addreses export of...

Automatic Enrolment and how it affects small businesses

03 Jun 2016

If you employ someone and do not currently offer a pension scheme auto enrolment will affect you.  Act now. Under a law introduced in 2012 (part of the 2008 Pensions Act) all employers must eventually offer a workplace pension scheme and automatically enrol...

ICG survey into the issue of ‘fraudulent’ respondents

02 Jun 2016

In March 2016, the e-group experienced what seemed like an avalanche of posts (112 in the eight days March 17-24) about respondents who misrepresent their eligibility to take part in qualitative research.  A poll of members who work in qualitative research...

How the polls performed in May 2015 – the post mortem!

02 Jun 2016

Lucy Davison of Keen as Mustard Marketing presents a summary of the recent BIG polling event… On 19 May we gathered at the office of Research Now to pick over the entrails of the 2015 UK polling debacle.  With Kerian Pedley (pollster, writer, Research...