First of all grovelling apologies not to have involved you all more regularly - we should have had the opportunity for at least one face to face meeting since the last despite the onset of Christmas. I have been rather pressured into providing outputs feeling I should have worked harder to get inputs from all of you. I had a great conversation with Surinder Siamat this afternoon which was really helpful - thank you Surinder.

The deadline for the Market Research Society Conference written paper is Monday (gasp). I will do my very best to circulate a draft of the paper end of play tomorrow to give you the chance to comment on structure and content. Which leaves me Monday to knock the document on the head.

You will have caught the drift if you've seen either the webinar I gave for the IE business school or the powerpoint (if you hadn't got an hour to listen to me burble through it) the links are in a powerpoint in the scriptorium.

I plan to set up a face to face meeting in February when we can talk about which ideas to feature in the conference presentation - which is only 15 minutes after all. And also to talk about one of the ideas which is Demographic replicators - search for the term and you can learn more about these as social media bots and their potential use in research. There's a blog dedicated to them.

So.. wait for the paper - your inputs please finishing line on Monday and a meeting in the offing. Speak soon.