Ethnography is a specialized type of research focused on producing descriptions of behavior, and therefore people, cultures, and communities. Digital ethnography is the application of this same purpose, but utilizing all of the behaviors publicly available on the Internet. We leverage the expertise of those with anthropology, sociology, and psychology backgrounds to explore your audiences…
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Demystifying Listening and Busting Two Common Myths
Two things I enjoy hearing: “This audience doesn’t use social media.”“The only opinions you’ll see online are extremes.” Either of these statements put a smile on my face because I know our extensive appendices and presentations can not only easily disprove them, but in fact change and inform a client mind completely and utterly that…
Are you looking for the X factor in your healthcare marketing?
Between the generational giants of baby boomers and millennials, Generation X is an audience often neglected in healthcare marketers’ strategies. Don’t You Forget About Gen X, an eBook written by SPM Chief Strategy Officer Dan Miers, Dean Browell of Feedback, and Alan Shoebridge of Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System, establishes this generation’s crucial role as…
Using Social Listening in HR
The importance of applying digital ethnographic research to HR People don’t always think of HR when it comes to social listening, but it can be an important facet. Recently we have conducted several studies using our unique market research technique of social listening to help our clients attract talent and retain employees. Working with human…