Fresh approach to online research
With Recollective you can quickly build numerous studies, each targeting one or more segments of participants in an online community.
Each study guides participants through a series of structured or open-ended activities with the objective of gathering deep insights and unbiased opinions. Researchers can monitor interactions and responses in real-time, add more activities as the study evolves, analyze results and quickly generate comprehensive reports. Custom codes can be applied to entire responses, individual sentences or single words and also extend into comments, discussions and private messages that may include other insightful interactions.
Recollective offers all of these capabilities, often for longer durations and with more participants, at a price that is comparable to or lower than traditional qualitative studies.
The power of online communities
Ramius has drawn on more than a decade of experience building online communities to design Recollective to specifically meet the needs of researchers. Community dynamics are incorporated into each Recollective study and activity through optional sharing of responses between participants, enabling commenting, messaging and response ratings. Open forums encourage them to start and join discussion topics that can reveal new, unexpected insights and innovations.
A clean interface developed for today's social media savvy users also means participants can effortlessly carry out their assigned research tasks, share opinions and interact with each other in real-time — if you want them to. When combined with Recollective's uncluttered, intuitive design and automated notifications, researchers are assured of a high participation rate and minimized participant drop-off.
Any device, location or duration
Recollective is built with an adaptive design and uses leading-edge web technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3. That means it automatically adjusts to enable your research study to be accessible by participants on any device, anywhere, at any time.
Being cloud-based, you don't need to install or operate any software or hardware. Ramius takes care of that in the background. Each private Recollective site runs on a dedicated server and can scale as your need evolves. Sites can live for any number of days, weeks, months or even indefinitely if you want to create a continuous research community.
The entire environment can be branded to match your client's web style, from domain-name and logo, to colors and fonts.
Report and export with ease
A key differentiator for Recollective is the powerful on-demand reporting and data export features. Customized reports can be easily generated at any time from up-to-the-minute information:
- Participation Reports allow you to gauge the wellness of your community by seeing who is participating and in what ways
- Activity & Task Reports summarize response rates to preset activities and the feedback generated by those responses
- Discussions Report highlights active topics, response rates, top contributors and overall engagement
- Excerpts Report brings together a structured output of all verbatim responses tagged with specific codes
- View and easily generate full transcripts of all responses within a particular activity, discussion forum or personal message stream
Reports are easily filtered by segment and are easy to print and download. You can now spend less time teasing data out of your community and start delivering the deep and visually-rich insights your clients demand.
Differentiate your research offerings
Ramius, an award-winning provider of social software solutions since 1998, developed Recollective to meet the specific needs of modern qualitative researchers and agencies. Our software and expertise has brought millions of people from across the world together in professional collaborative web-environments.
With Ramius, you'll receive our solid commitment to work together for mutual success. We'll help you to extend and differentiate your research capabilities by combining your services and industry expertise with our software.
Whether used to complement traditional research methods, such as focus groups or in-depth interviews, or for a stand-alone study, Recollective is the ideal platform to deliver exciting online research studies and uncover rich, new customer insights for your clients.
Recollective has an integrated toolset to make online research easy for researchers and participants.
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