Jon Krosnick: Charged Particles

Jon Krosnick, Professor of Communication, Political Science, and Psychology, Stanford University spoke at the NYAAPOR meeting on May 15th. On the topic of polling, Jon started by pointing out the crisis in the public image of polling, citing Nate Silver’s comment that...

Optimizing Survey News Releases for Bloggers

Bloggers, in general, are even more pressed for time than reporters and are more likely to cut corners when reporting on your news release. All the resources you provide for reporters will assist bloggers, but they are more likely to use infographics than reporters...

Optimizing Survey News Releases for Reporters

Most survey news releases simply include a summary of key findings of the survey, without accompaniment. Modest additional effort can create news releases more likely to be picked up. Optimizing Releases for Reporters   “Surveys are great for me for a blog post...

Social Currency in 7 Dimensions

Vivaldi Partners presented at the NY AMA to a capacity crowd at the Scandinavia House in New York City. The topic of “social currency” was explored by the panelists from Saks 5th Avenue, AB InBev, and Cadillac. Each attendee received a gold envelope with a “key” (USB...

Issues of Sampling and Mode for PR Surveys

For representative results, it is more important that sampling be well designed than that there be thousands of responses. Unfortunately, this is a distinction that most reporters ignore and that many researchers, in the interest of minimizing costs, obscure....