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Month: November 2013

Market research… communicated Posted on November 28, 2013 by Lucy Davison

This post was originally written for NewMR - for a series on Threats and Opportunities in Market Research, promoting The Festival of NewMR  (Monday 2nd December to Friday 6th December). As we race at alarming speed into the future, accessorised with new technologies, swathed in big data and seduced by social media, it is important to step back and reflect on the bigger picture. Sometimes on a day to day level it’s easy to forget that we are living through

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Presenting FreshMinds Posted on November 22, 2013 by Simon Dunn

As you may have noticed, FreshMinds adopted a new visual identity designed by The Cabinet as of the 10th of October; to mark the merging of its social business with its research business. Mustard was set the time-limited task of creating a PowerPoint design, using this new branding. The project was challenging; faced only with a few PDF concepts showing how the presentations might look, and the clock ticking, I dived in. I find that the fundamental issue with PowerPoint

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Meet me in Milan Posted on by Lucy Davison

I was honoured to be invited by Marcello Sasso of Cielo Research to speak about ‘Communicating Insights’ to a room full of eager Italians at the ESOMAR Meet up Italy 2013  in Milan. Staying in a big old palazzo helped me feel at home and I was pleased to see that the sun still shone in Milan in October. Dredging up my rusty Italian proved a challenge, but the delightful audience (including some old friends from Research International) were very

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