PG Slots Cassino{"id":7309,"date":"2017-05-16T08:59:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T06:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grbnnews.com\/?p=7309"},"modified":"2017-05-16T12:46:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T10:46:49","slug":"participant-engagement-data-points-people-next-conference-panel-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grbn.org\/participant-engagement-data-points-people-next-conference-panel-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Participant Engagement: From data points to people \u2013 NEXT Conference Panel Review"},"content":{"rendered":"At the Insights Association\u2019s NEXT Conference in New York last week our distinguished panel of experts from Critical Mix, M3 Global Research, MarketVision, Netquest and Vision Critical shared provocative thoughts, and concrete advice, with a packed audience on what needs to be done to improve the user experience and increase participant engagement.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nLeft to right:\r\n\r\nAndrew Cannon (GRBN), Germ\u00e1n Loewe (Netquest), Catherine Rogers (Vision Critical), Bob Graff (MarketVision), Amber Leila Esco (M3 Global Research), Jeff McKenna Critical Mix\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nTo kick things off, Germ\u00e1n reminded us how the competition for people\u2019s time online, and in particular on their smart phones, has changed beyond recognition: \u201cWhen we launched our first online panel, taking surveys was one of the most fun things you could do online<\/em><\/strong>\u201d. Few would argue that that is the case today as we compete with the likes of Youtube, Facebook and Instagram for a slice of people\u2019s time. Germ\u00e1n advised the audience to pay participants a fair, non-monetary, incentive and restrict the number of invites any person in the panel receives in order to improve both participant engagement and data quality.\r\n\r\nCatherine invited us to think about why people participate in research in general, and in online communities in particular, and reminded us of that many people are motivated out of a desire to influence things: \u201cBy making people feel heard and empowered, we can significantly improve participant engagement.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d Catherine advised that we should share back results with participants regularly with timely, relevant and compelling content, and gave some concrete examples on how this can be done:\r\n