NEWS OF MEMBERS

PLEASE LET US HAVE ALL YOUR NEWS

SURVEY RESULTS

To date 104 of our members have completed the online survey. I will not close it yet so please participate if you have not already done so. Results to date are as follows:

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John O'Brien

John recently visited Easter Island to see the total eclipse, leaving practically straight after the Summer Party and we await his account.There are some fabulous photos of the event on John's Facebook page a few of which I reproduce in the slide show below

 Our Facebook page also contains the video of Justin's Poetry  Reading.

PLEASE JOIN US ON FACEBOOK!

We rely on you to keep us informed.Don't complain that the news is out of date if you fail to let the Webmaster know your own news.For members who are still working we will be pleased to include changes of company or company name /activity

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James (Jimmy) Adams RIP

Jimmy's funeral service took place at Randalls Park Crematorium Leatherhead on Thursday July 1 2010. The family request that all donations in memory of his life are sent to the MRBA via the Funeral Directors Messrs L.Hawkins & Sons Highlands Rd. Leatherhead KT22 8ND.

Jimmy was an early Fellow of the IPA. More details of his distinguished career and an IPA tribute are available using this link http://www.ipa.co.uk/Content/IPA-Fellow-Jimmy-Adams-dies

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A warm welcome to all who have joined us so far in 2010! A list of all members joining 2009 and 2010 is towards the foot of this page.

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MEMORIAL LECTURE - NAOMI SARGANT

On Tuesday April 13 2010 our member Andrew McIntosh (Lord McIntosh) chaired a memorial lecture at Channel 4 given by Martin Bean, Vice Chancellor, the Open University on the subject "Digital Literacy: Survival Skills for the 21st Century". This was in memory of our late member Naomi Sargant (Lady McIntosh) and second in a series of annual meetings.

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MANY CONGRATULATIONS ANDREW!

Professor Andrew Ehrenberg was the 2010 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the (American) Advertising Research Foundation..Congratulations were sent to Andrew from our Spring Lunch on April 22. The Network are very proud to have Andrew as a member.

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SOCIAL NETWORKING INCLUDING BLOGS

If you are a MEMBER of FACEBOOK, TWITTER OR LINKEDIN may we please urge you to connect with othe Research Network members who are also members of these networking sites  (e.g. become a Friend, Follow or Connect as appropriate to the site).

If you write a regular  BLOG please ask us to provide a link to it here. At present there are links to the Blog of one late member and to that of the Webmaster (see below) but we are sure many other members write blogs. 

In memory of the late John Bound a very loyal and respected member of the Research Network who died on April 23,we will retain the link to his blog for some while, in his memory. A full  obituary of John will, of course, appear in the Summer Newsletter. Meanwhile please take a few moments to read his last blog entries on his visit this year to New Zealand and Australia. He was a wonderful writer and raconteur and no mean photographer.

Link to John Bound's Blog

The Webmaster's Blog: Tom's Blog includes details of some of his day-to-day activities as well as his (non-party political) thoughts on the current political scene.

Link to webmaster's blog

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A SPECIAL WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS

We extend a warm special welcome to these new members who  joined us in 2009 and 2010. We look forward to them playing a full part in Network activities. We are continuing to receive new applications and look forward soon to welcoming even m,ore new members to increase our membership above the 250 mark.

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A NOTE ON ON THE FORUM

The Forum has now been resumed in a new format.

The FORUM exists for you to have your say if you are a present member of the Research Network. You can express opinions or start a discussion thread on any topic that you think may be of interest to members. Do use the FORUM as a "Letters to the Editor" feature. We would welcome hearing from you. Archived entries for the FORUM are now on a different page .

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Please do continue to send us any news you have which you may wish to share with other members. We will willingly include details of new directions or changes in your professional activities provided these are not in the form of a direct advertisement to use your services.

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