Category Archives: Opinion research

Are There Questions You Should Include In Any Consultation, From Online To Offline?

We’ve been doing work here recently on online consultation survey architectures with regards to required questions. It’s more fun than it sounds, honest. For one, it’s thrown up some bigger questions that got me thinking about the nature of consultation … Continue reading

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How The Internet Might Be Influencing The Election

There’s been a lot of talk, obviously, about how the internet will affect the election. Obviously a few months back we held our debate on whether technology or policy will win the 2010 election, and the overwhelming consensus at the … Continue reading

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New Opinion Suite Results Analysis Module Launched

Whilst we’re doing a lot of major work on Opinion Suite at the moment, adding in some substantial new modules, we also like to see if we can’t fit some quick wins into the work along the way. One we’re … Continue reading

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15 Ways PCTs Can Improve Consultation On Difficult Issues

Amongst the different public sector organisations, PCTs are very often responsible for decisions that affect huge numbers of people and cover issues that people feel strongly passionate about. These issues and decisions are often difficult. This makes it all the … Continue reading

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US: An overview of the National Dialogue on Health, IT and Privacy

Take a look at our video about the National Dialogue we ran on Health, IT and Privacy, which asks the question “How should we expand the use of information technology and protect personal privacy to improve health care?”. On the … Continue reading

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Six Pieces about Sentiment Analysis

I’ve been researching sentiment analysis, and I think I’ve found pieces to suit a range of tastes and interests. Tasters First the notes from a 2008 talk given by Lillan Lee from Cornell University. Lee’s topic is “…the flood of … Continue reading

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Oh Yeah? – Prove It. Measuring Social Media Opinion

Useful blog piece on hard metrics and anecdotal evidence for the value of social media.

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Viral – everyone’s talking about it . . .

 Since launching aMap 6 weeks back, the concept really seems to have taken off with it virally propelling itself round the internet, getting people arguing from all corners of the world. A couple of my favorite arguments this week include: … Continue reading

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Everybody loves the sunshine

It wasn’t long ago at all that I was getting the fright of my life trying to drive my car on six inches of solid ice and we were blogging about how the internet was awash with people talking about … Continue reading

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Opinion Suite product site gets a makeover

We’ve been doing good work on our open source e-consultation and opinion research software package, Opinion Suite, and we’ve just set live a revamped product site to show it off to people.  Featuring snazzy videos from Gez and Michaela, answers … Continue reading

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