Each year the Oregon Entrepreneur's Network hosts one of the largest Angel investment conferences in the country. From a field of almost 100 companies, the Angel Oregon due diligence teams pare it down to two companies in three categories: Tech/Biotech, Sustainability, and Consumer Goods.

My friends over at Satisfaction have made customer service their abiding passion. At the beginning of February they even held a Customer Service is the New Marketing Summit.

Next stop on the Revelation speaking tour - Grand Rapids, Michigan! Revelation CEO Steve August will be presenting "Qualitative 2.0: How Web 2.0 is Revolutionizing Online Qualitative Research" to the West Michigan Chapter of the American Marketing Association.

Here's the details:

Networking starts at 11:30 am with the lunch and presentation beginning at noon.

All registrations must be made through our AMA/CVENT website using a credit card. If you have questions, please email us at amawestmichigan@yahoo.com.

WHEN
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

WHERE

The Qualitative Research Consultants Association (QRCA) Annual conference took place last week in beautiful Vancouver, BC and Revvers were out in force. Revvers Kristin Schwitzer of Beacon Research and Christine Corner and Rachel Lewington of Genactis UK presented on studies they'd done this year. And of course G2 Marketing's Gretchen Gehrett and myself presented on Immersive Research and our study of qualitative researchers and technology. After the presentation, a bunch of Revvers gathered for a group photo:

Another week, another trip! This week Revelation goes to Vancouver for the Qualitative Research Consultant's Association's (QRCA) Annual Conference. Three days of qualitative, qualitative, qualitative. A few highlights to point out:

1. Join us at the dinner cruise on Thursday night for a Revelation users group photo, drinks and dinner. Fun for all - hopefully it won't rain!

2. Revelation's Steve August will be hosting an Immersive Research round table discussion on Thursday 10/25 from 4:30-5:30.

Revelation CEO Steve August travels to sunny Southern California this week for the Consumer Electronics Association Industry Forum at the famous Hotel Del Coronado.

Steve will be participating in a panel discussion entitled “Can You Ever Really Know Too Much About Your Customers? The Latest in Qualitative Research Techniques” session on Wednesday, October 17 from 10:00 – 11:00 am.

We are very happy to announce that The Revelation team is growing again. Today, we welcome Michael Felix who will serve as our Interaction Design Lead. Michael comes to us out of the University of Auburn Industrial Design program where his thesis was on the visualization of taxonomies - something we find quite interesting. Michael will be leading our ongoing efforts on evolving and improving interface issues and interactions - making things intuitive,  helping you get things done quicker and creating an inspiring experience.  Welcome Michael!

Though we are quite enjoying here in Portland, it's always good to travel to the Bay Area, especially to present at such great events as:

Marketing Research in Wine Country
Presented by the MRA Northwest Chapter Sept. 13-14.
Revelation's Steve August will present: "Qualitative 2.0: How Web 2.0 Is Revolutionizing Qualitative Research" on Friday Sept. 14.

For more information see:
http://www.ncpnwmra.org/calendar/2007/Fall_2007.html 

BayCHI Usability Engineering BOF Event 
On Monday, September 17th, Revelation CEO Steve August will present "Immersive Research: A Methodology for Remote Contextual Research." The event is being hosted at Google and you can find more information here:

It's always great to see Revvers acknowledged for the great work they do. So congratulations to Revelation customer Nicole Reinhold of Philips Design, Netherlands who has had her paper "The virtual home visit: Identifying people insights in the virtual world" accepted to the ESOMAR Qualitative 2007 Conference in Paris November 12-14.

ESOMAR is the world wide organization for Market Research and it's conferences attract the best of what research has to offer. So it is a high honor indeed.

Nicole co-authored the paper with Karma Lendup Senior Designer at Philips Design, India and it is based on a Revelation project conducted early this year in both the US and Indian markets.

Well, this week is the big week here at Revelation. On Wednesday we move from San Francisco to Portland, Oregon. As with any move, we are both sad to be leaving a place we have known for many years and also excited to be embarking on a new adventure.

While San Francisco is truly one of the world's great cities, we feel that Portland's great tech community, small town livability and urban sophstication will be the best possible new home for Revelation. 

We'll be officially up and open for business in Portland on July 2nd.  As always, we'll keep you posted as events warrant!