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Can Ottawa’s NBL franchise recover from a branding disaster?

Sherrilynne Starkie

“We didn’t want to fall into the trap of having a great name and then focus group it to death to the point where you go, ‘Ah, it doesn’t work, let’s go with something safe.’ ”. Twitter and Facebook immediately exploded with accusations of racism because of the tomahawk’s place in Native American culture.

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A social media focus group in the 99-year old home of the Red Sox

Jeff Esposito

So when I got an invitation from the Boston Red Sox to visit their home offices for a Twitter focus group, I could not have said yes quickly enough. On July 28, I arrived at the discreet offices near Yawkey Way and was shuttled into a conference room with 10 other members of the Sox Twitter community.

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How to Make Social Advocacy Part of Your Employees’ Daily Routine

Convince & Convert

Dial into a conference call. Do a quick search on Instagram of your office location and a Twitter query of your branded hashtag. These employees are your initial allies and should be the first group of stakeholders you bring into your employee advocacy initiatives. Leverage this highly engaged focus group for feedback.

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On Research, Measurement’s Oft-Forgotten Sibling

Waxing UnLyrical

But the last scheduled chat was on a day when a lot of folk were heading back from this year’s SxSW conference (or festival, or whatever you want to call it) and it didn’t seem to make sense to hold it when many of them couldn’t participate. Use conference calls for focus groups; it can be fairly inexpensive.

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UX Masterclass: What To Know About User Experience [interview]

Mindjumpers

Tweet UX Masterclass is a conference that is going to be held in Copenhagen March 31 st – April 1 st , 2011, and SnitkerGroup , the Danish partner of the UXalliance working with usability, is the company hosting this global conference. The concept for this conference is user experience (UX). Thomas Snitker about the conference.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Here are some random thoughts from a collection of these experiences and feedback from conference speeches: 1) Features are NOT user experiences: Warning…if you ask someone about desired user experience and they say wiki or forum, you have work to do. © 2008 Community Group Therapy. Lots of diverse versions of this.

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10 Reasons Market Research is Critical to Social Media

Adam Cohen

It happens in all industries, but lately I’ve seen retail companies keep their “Consumer Insight&# group focused on traditional insight like mall traffic patterns and planograms. Knowing Customer Behaviors What internal group knows more about your customer’s behaviors and acts? kevinertell Great post, Adam.

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