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wom uk espresso briefing @face

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Brands are increasingly realising the importance of integrating word of mouth into everything they do. They get that it’s essential for nurturing consumer relationships. They understand that referrals are key to ROI. They’ve heard exciting examples of companies who’ve built their success on conversational strategies. But how on earth do they fit WOM into their existing marketing mix?

On 8.30am, Tuesday 24th November, we will present on‘Monitoring and analysing WOM in real time to enable adaptive brand planning’.

faceCEO and Founding Partner Andrew Needham, and Head of Social Media and Planning Francesco D’Orazio, will look at how to:

- Measure and monitor online conversations about brands to assess brand influence and brand visibility
- Apply qualitative analysis to determine research parameters and add meaning to quantitative findings
- Identify conversation hubs and influencers across a wide range of channels
- Use crowdsourcing and co-creation methodologies to achieve research, innovation and planning objectives
- Build iterative models for feeding real-time insights and consumer inputs into the existing marketing process

As always, the briefing will be totally FREE and kick off with half an hour for coffee, breakfast and networking at 8.30am with the talk starting at 9am and questions and discussions afterwards until 10.30am, all at INSIGHT RESEARCH GROUP offices, 11-13 Charterhouse Buildings, London
EC1M 7AP
. Last month’s presentation from Matt Morrison was a big hit so be sure to register for this one now via julian.ferguson@womuk.org – members get priority booking.

“There is a magic in graphs. The profile of a curve reveals in a flash a whole situation —the life history of an epidemic, a panic, or an era of prosperity. The curve informs the mind, awakens the imagination, convinces.” This is how Graphic Presentation, one of the most fascinating books on data visualizations from 1939, begins.

Nowadays data visualization has reached exciting new levels of sophistication and beauty. But being able to do 3D interactive infographics doesn’t necessarily mean we need fancy visuals to make a point. As infographics becomes a content genre in itself, it sometimes lends itself to glorifying aesthetics and gratuitous visualisations rather than serving its primary function of empowering us with an immediate and sophisticated understanding of increasingly complex data. So, the question remains: what is the cognitive added value of images that numbers and words can’t convey?

Read on at New Media AgeThinking visually puts a world of numbers into perspective


Francesco will be heading over to the MRS New Media and Technology conference on the 19th November to join the conversation and present. Our Head of Web Research and Strategy will be discussing real time research and collaborative planning.

Research 3.0: real-time research and collaborative approaches for adaptive brand planning

  • Measuring and monitoring online conversations about  brands to assess brand influence and brand visibility
  • Applying qualitative analysis to determine research  parameters and add meaning to quantitative findings
  • Identifying the conversation hubs and the  influencers across a wide range of channelss
  • Using crowd-sourcing and co-creation methodologies  to achieve research,innovation and planning objectives
  • Building iterative models for feeding real-time insights and consumer inputs into the existing marketing process

Also on the bill are speakers from the BBC, Orange, Coca-Cola and Danone so it should be a very insightful look into the future. To see the full line up and get some more info on the conference CLICK HERE

Last week inaugural WOM UK Thought Leaders event kicked off with a bang with Emanuel Rosen’s presentation The Anatomy of Buzz Revisited: Lessons in Word of Mouth Marketing and 100 WOM practitioners, marketing agencies, brands, academics and curious individuals.

The video of the session will be uploaded in the next days on the WOM UK blog. Same for the news about the upcoming November Thought Leaders session that will feature Dr Martin Oetting, Chief Research Director at European WOM marketing network trnd, presenting his doctoral dissertation on ‘The Ripple Effect’ – how companies can spread WOM by treating their customers like their best employees. Watch this space.

Marketing Week - 05/08/2009

Marketing Week - 05/08/2009

Face, the co-creation planning agency has been appointed by The Carphone Warehouse to inform through co-creation the brand’s social media engagement strategy, involving consumers in the idea generation and planning process.

The Carphone Warehouse, the company that helped consumers get connected with the right phone and the right network, is extending its service to include laptops and broadband providers, making the latest connecting technology relevant and accessible to the widest audience, covering as many brands as possible in the process. In order to expand its reach with new target audiences, The Carphone Warehouse recognised social media was going to be an integral part of achieving reach and engagement.

To read the full article online, please click here

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