Introducing Research Vibes – Everything Market Research, All in One Place

Here is the press release that announces the culmination of several month’s worth of work by myself, the MRGA, GreenBook, and Netvibes.

ResearchVibes is a personalized dashboard that brings together all the latest and best news, blogs, events, resources, and tools for market research professionals. Our hope is that it will be an incredibly useful tool and portal for the global industry!

Portland, OR—October 13, 2010—Market researchers across all industries need to monitor an enormously wide and ever-changing array of news feeds, blog posts, social media activity and industry events. Today, the Market Research Global Alliance (MRGA) and GreenBook, introduce ResearchVibes, the first all-in-one resource that delivers everything important to market researchers all on one dashboard: market research news and reports, social media and Twitter, associations and events, productivity and analytics tools, and much more.

ResearchVibes is curated by market research experts at MRGA and GreenBook and is powered by Netvibes Premium Dashboards, the most award-winning dashboard platform.

ResearchVibes is available for free today at: www.ResearchVibes.com

***   Members and industry professionals are invited to attend a special MRGA radio blogcast on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11am PDT and webinar workshop on Thursday, October 21, 2010 11am PDT to learn more about how ResearchVibes and real-time dashboards can be used for industry research, monitoring and analysis. Learn more and register for free here: www.MRGAsn.com   ***

“With ResearchVibes, market researchers can save time, do more and have it all in one place. Discover relevant news and great content. Follow all your favorite blogs at once. Monitor competition and gather intelligence. Listen and participate easily across all social media,” said Eric Bell, MRGA founder and CEO.  “It’s the ultimate resource for all market research professionals.”

ResearchVibes features a comprehensive view of dozens of top research news feeds and blogs, helping market researchers monitor all the latest news and reports in real-time, in one place, instead of having to manually surf and search the entire Web.  Moreover, ResearchVibes also features the most relevant Twitter conversations and all the best social media and productivity tools to help market researchers with their everyday workload. ResearchVibes also puts all the most important industry resources at your fingertips, including industry associations, conferences and events, and online professional networks.

ResearchVibes is powered by Netvibes Premium Dashboards and each user can completely personalize their very own ResearchVibes dashboard to better monitor and analyze specific industries, companies, clients or personal interests. Thanks to Netvibes’ award-winning interface, it’s easy and intuitive to quickly change layouts or add more news, blogs or tools in just a couple of clicks. With ResearchVibes, users can pick and choose from more than 190,000 widgets (tools) available in the Netvibes Ecosystem, including many services for professional media monitoring and analysis.

“Since the market research community is so diverse, we knew a one-size fits all approach simply wouldn’t work. That’s why ResearchVibes is powered by Netvibes Premium Dashboards, because it gives each individual user the ability to easily customize their own dashboard to match their unique interests and needs simply by adding, deleting, and moving the tools and content around–just like building blocks,” said Lukas Pospichal, Managing Director, GreenBook.

To learn more and to start using your own dashboard, visit: www.ResearchVibes.com

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About GreenBook (www.greenbook.org)

GreenBook^® is a leading resource for market research professionals.  Although mostly known for its premium directories of market research firms and focus group facilities, GreenBook has been transforming itself into an integrated media platform for the market research industry.

GreenBook now includes the online and print directory, the specialized GreenBook Health directory, the GreenBook Blog, an e-newsletter, and a new publishing program to provide stimulating, practical, and timely content on topics and issues facing the industry.

Media Contact:                 Diane Liebenson, Publisher   |   [email protected]

About Market Research Global Alliance (www.mrgasn.com)

The MRGA was the first industry social network, leading the way for other research social networks to gain momentum and industry success, and still remains the largest by membership only trusted network of market research professionals.  The MRGA has over 9,000 members globally comprised of the by invitation only network 3,000+ on the MRGA Social Network,  LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and a stream of social network subgroups.

Media Contact:                 Stacey Bell, CMO   |   [email protected]

 

About Netvibes (http://business.netvibes.com)

Founded in 2005, Netvibes pioneered the first personal dashboard publishing platform for the real-time Web. For consumers, Netvibes.com is the most awarded dashboard engine that helps millions of people around the world instantly dashboard everything that matters to them most. For agencies and publishers, Netvibes’ universal widget technology (UWA), widget distribution services and Premium Dashboards help rapidly deliver brand observation rooms and user-personalized marketing campaigns. For companies, Netvibes Enterprise delivers secure, scalable personal workspaces, portals and industry dashboards.

Today, Netvibes powers personalization for more than 1,500+ of the world’s leading brands, interactive agencies, government organizations, non-profits and enterprises–serving more than half a billion widgets every month. Netvibes has offices in Paris, London and San Francisco.

Media Contact:                 Vincent Chang   |   [email protected]