ResearchTalk

 GUESTS  Clare Bruce, founder and CEO, and Luke Allen, MD, Knowledge Systems of fast-growing Nunwood

 TOPICS  Are entrepreneurs born or made? Is Nunwood’s ‘Fizz’ the Google for inside the organisation?

 THE GREAT JOB CHALLENGE #4  Spring Research is looking for you. If you’re creative, perhaps unappreciated where you are, and want to work in a small but fast-growing, award-winning agency that is getting a reputation for doing some really fun and cool stuff, pop over to their website or drop managing partner Stephen Phillips an email. Please mention ‘ResearchTalk’ and good luck!

 NOTABLE MENTIONS  ASC, Bill Gates, Fizz, Google, Mrs Pritchard (BBC), National Business Awards, Price Waterhouse, Stephen Phillips, Tom Peters

Thanks to Corrine Green, Nokia, for the independent insight into Fizz

Music Brother Love and Michael Gomez from the PMN

Series:Weekly

“We’ve had two years of change [in MR], my guess is we’ve got another 25 to come…” (Ray Poynter)
 

 EXCLUSIVE  Brand Strategy magazine’s Ruth Mortimer talks about some hot issues in branding such as co-creation and branded content. Ray Poynter talks tech trends. And FDS’s new co-owner and MD, Charlotte Cornish, on the extraordinary story behind her acquisition of FDS

 STARRING 

• Ruth Mortimer, Editor, Brand Strategy Magazine
• Ray Poynter, Director, Virtual Surveys, and Head, The Future Place
• Charlotte Cornish, MD, FDS and Director, Munro Global

Recorded live at ESOMAR CONGRESS 2006

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 GUEST  Online research pioneer Pete Comley, Chairman of Virtual Surveys

 TOPICS  YouGov quadruples profits; BrandIndex tracker & word of mouth; Web 2.0. VS: Staying independent; Accidental genesis of VS and early challenges; Research 2.0; Blogging; Future challenges

 NOTABLE MENTIONS  Al Gore, BSkyB, Current TV, Ed Keller, Eric Berne, ESOMAR, The Future Place, Google, Greenfield Online, Harris Interactive, Henley Centre, Keller Fay, MySpace, Quentin Ashby, Ray Poynter, RI, Stephen Phillips, Trish Comley, YouGov, YouTube

Music Brother Love and Matthew Ebel from the PMN

Series:Weekly