Since Revelation has grown so much over the past year, it has become harder and harder for me to find the time to be able to explore ways to use the online medium for qualitative research and then share what I've learned through writing, speaking, blogging, etc.  This is such a key part of what drives Revelation - being as driven about methodology as we are about technology -  that we have created a position that focuses on these activities. We call the position Methdology Evangelist. Here's what a Methodolgy Evangelist does and needs to bring to the table:

Methodology Evangelist              

Passionate, entrepreneurial-minded researcher sought for a unique position. Revelation, a Portland, OR creator of online qualitative tools (www.revelationglobal.com), is seeking a dynamic Methodology Evangelist to help market and advance our company’s product and methodology offerings.  At Revelation, the Methodology Evangelist will:

Engage and Inspire

Evangelist will constructively engage with and contribute to the research, design, marketing, and advertising communities.  Publish papers, speak at conferences, blog, tweet and otherwise participate in conversations on forums, groups, lists and other social media.

Market, Sell

Evangelist will  be a key cog in Revelation’s sales and marketing efforts by demo-ing products and solutions, working with sales and marketing to create proposals and participating in paratrooper marketing trips.

Consult

Assist customers with developing engaging and insightful activities and work with the customer experience team to ensure the success of customer projects.

Explore, Create

Push the boundaries of online qualitative methodology. Areas of interest: developing activity models that make the most of the online medium, in-context research, accelerating qual analysis, projective techniques, concept and ad testing, applying game theory. Conduct research projects to test methods and ideas. Conduct research to further product development and participate in designing product and service offerings.

Share, Teach

Build on Revelation’s current educational offerings. Give or host webinars on the latest research thinking and practice, lead classes, create educational events.

Requirements

1. Must be fluent, passionate and non-dogmatic regarding qualitative research methods
2. Must have experience conducting asynchronous online qualitative research via blogs, bulletin boards, Revelation or other online tools
3. Must be irrepressibly excited about online as a medium for qualitative research
4. Must be able to credibly engage and excite a wide diversity of researchers and research tool buyers, including: research directors, design researchers, qualitative research consultants, product manager, marketing managers, ad researchers and account planners,
5. Have excellent presentation and people skills
6. Able to roll with a start up environment
7. Advanced degrees helpful, but online qual experience and communication ability is more important

Salary depends on experience. Benefits include health insurance and participation in stock option plan. Ideally person would be located in Portland, OR but will consider candidates based in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London.

Candidates should forward a cover letter and resume to jobs@revelationglobal.com

Elizabeth MacLaughlin has joined us as Associate Customer Experience Manager.  She will be focusing on our Helping Hands project management services. Elizabeth comes to us with a full service market research background.  She most recently worked at Market Strategies International here in Portland. We are happy to have Elizabeth join our team.  Her customer service skills are already winning rave reviews from our clients.  And we know her extensive market research knowledge will be a great addition to our team. 

Welcome, Elizabeth!

It's a great day here at Revelation as we posted another quality release last night. Here's what's new:

• Improved Participant Video! We've improved the experience for participants uploading videos to Revelation. Participants  are now able to upload much larger files (meaning longer videos) and, the system does a great job of keeping folks apprised of their upload status.  Participants and researchers are also able to play back videos in a YouTube style video player. Sweet.
• New Languages! We posted the beta release for EU Spanish, Italian and  Japanese, expanding Revelation's language capabilities to seven, including the current English, Latin American Spanish, French and German.

Kudos to Dan Herrera, James Pozdena and Max Ogden for getting the video release out the door. And further thanks to the Dev team and Rachel Bell for shepherding the newest languages through the translation and QA process!

Revelation customers are out in force this Spring / early Summer, speaking at some of the industry's leading conferences.  It's great to see some of our long time customers and some new faces out there sharing their experiences with the rest of the market research. Here's who doing what where:

Gretchen Gehrett, president of G2 Marketing, will present "Researching Experiences: The Perfect Tool to Capture Experiences as They Happen" at the Annual MRA conference on June 5, 2009. She will examine immersive research, illustrate how Revelation studies tap into deeper emotions -- and capture responses with rich data.

Paul Tambeau of Macphie presented at the MRIA conference (Canada's market research industry association) and showcased the study we executed earlier this year. It was entitled: "A Case Study: Using Netnography in the Not-for-Profit Sector". Paul spoke about the study, but also about netnography as an emerging methodology and the opportunities web 2.0 tools provide us to engage participants in new and exciting ways.

Kristin Schwitzer of Beacon Research presented with Andy Rieger of United Health at the QRCA Symposium in Chicago on May 7th on using multiple methodologies - including Revelation, of course -  can garner deeper insights than possible with a single approach. The twist in this study was that the study featured participants who ere 55+ and proved that online can be an excellent solution for obtaining learning from older people.

Congrats Gretchen, Paul and Kristin!

Revelation's CEO to Speak at Advertising Research Foundation's 2009 Conference: How Online Qualitative Rescues Research From Shrinking Budgets

CEO Steve August will discuss how Qualitative 2.0 affords market researchers the speed, value and reach they need in this time of shrinking budgets.

Portland, Ore. - March 23, 2009 - Today, Revelation, a developer of next generation online qualitative research tools, announced CEO Steve August will speak at the 2009 re:think Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) convention.  Mr. August is scheduled to talk on the subject of Qualitative 2.0: Speed, Reach and Richness on March 30th at noon.

Held at the Marriott Marquis in New York City, this annual convention draws over 2,000 advertising and marketing professionals.

August's thirty-minute free talk will use real life qualitative research case studies to show how online research techniques dramatically accelerate qualitative research that produces insight, fuels powerful creative, and allows users to quickly evaluate campaigns.

One case study that will be discussed is a project for the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). This research study was nominated for an Ogilvy Award, an accolade administered by the ARF. August will present the study's design, show how online qualitative research aided in collecting insight, and the resulting campaign for the Ad Council. Kristin Schwitzer, president of Beacon Research was nominated for the award, working with Arnold Worldwide ETC. on the research for the Ad Council's "Think Before You Speak" ad campaign using Revelation's online research tool.

"Web 2.0 -- and the underlining technology-- has given researchers unimaginable access across populations, time zones, and geography to gather consumer behavior data. The tool's power also befits the current economic climate. Compared to traditional focus groups or in-depth interviews, a license is a fraction of the cost but yields richer data, in half the time of in-person activities," says August. Quite often, researchers are fighting the clock and feeling pressure to reduce budgets, often at the expense of insight. Now, Revelation addresses those concerns, and over-delivers on the data.

For a pass to hear the speech at the Marriott Marquis, 535 Broadway, 6th Floor (Plymouth/Royale Room), NYC  on March 30, 2009 at noon, visit www.revelationglobal.com/arf.

You have asked. You have waited. And now your wait is over. On Sunday, January 18th we posted our latest release which is entirely devoted to group discussion. You can now have  your cake and eat it to. Revelation will fully support all the great in-depth activities it does currently, AND give you  the features of a bulletin board style group discussion. No need to use one system for in-depths and another for bulletin board groups. You can do them both in Revelation. We think this marks the start of something new and big.

Revelation is pleased and honored to announce that we have been selected to present at Venture NW on October 30, 2008.  Oregon Entrepeneur Network's Venture Northwest is the premier forum for new and emerging investment opportunities in exciting companies from Oregon, Washington, and throughout the Pacific Northwest. This annual conference draws institutional investors and investment bankers from across the western US who are interested in the emerging companies that the Northwest has to offer. Companies that have presented at Venture Oregon have raised over $1.3 billion in venture capital since 1996 and over $68 million in angel investment.

We are honored to be part of this even along with other great Oregon companies like Aboutus.org,  Splashcast and EndOutdoor.  Learn more about Venture Northwest here.

It gives us great pleasure to announce that we have a new member of the Revelation Team. James Pozdena has joined us as a developer who will be focusing on customer support. James comes fresh off a position at Market Strategies International (formerly Doxus) here in Portland. We are super psyched to have James' technical skills and market research knowledge and I know members of the Revelation Nation  will come to appreciate James as we already do.