Social Networking Survey

When I was working at Linspire, I worked with a brilliant guy by the name of Yvan Go. He is currently in a masters program at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin, Germany. He has asked that if we, as an LDS technology community, would be willing to take a survey about social networking. I've reviewed the survey and feel that it would be excellent data to have and so I invite you to take the survey if you are willing. You can find it at http://esmt.social.sgizmo.com. I'll ask Yvan to post the results if possible once the survey is done. As the Church investigates and looks to implement more social networking capabilities in our sites, we can benefit from this type of general information.

Tom

All I get is a "Thanks for Taking Our Survey... ". Did it just want to know something about our computer?

RussellHltn wrote:All I get is a "Thanks for Taking Our Survey... ". Did it just want to know something about our computer?

This should work now. I have recheck the survey settings. If you continue to have issues, please let me know.

Thanks again for your input.

OK, it worked, but I found some thing odd. For example, in Question #2, it allowed me to select multiple answer (hot much time spent in social software.) I'd think there would only be one answer.

I also found the survey "suggested" answers by creating defaults which influenced my answers.

I found the "based on 100 points question rather odd. Seems like it would be difficult to make sure it all added up to 100.

I was also confused by having "neutral" between "important" and "slightly important". It doesn't strike me as a linear order of importance.

I filled out the survey and am anxious to see the results. We are implementing social networking in various forms at work and it would be nice to have some user input.

yvan wrote:This should work now. I have recheck the survey settings. If you continue to have issues, please let me know.

Thanks again for your input.

I'm still getting the "Thanks for Taking Our Survey" message...

mkmurray wrote:I'm still getting the "Thanks for Taking Our Survey" message...

You might try clearing your cache, if you haven't already. I just took the survey and didn't have any problems. (Firefox browser)

mkmurray wrote:I'm still getting the "Thanks for Taking Our Survey" message...

Same here.

Aaron

bhofmann wrote:You might try clearing your cache, if you haven't already. I just took the survey and didn't have any problems. (Firefox browser)

I hit the page this morning from a different computer than the one I used last night, so it's not caching. I am on IE7.

Not fixed. I get the same "Thanks for taking our survey" message

yvan wrote:This should work now. I have recheck the survey settings. If you continue to have issues, please let me know.

Thanks again for your input.

I'm getting the feeling that link is only good for one shot. It was reset, I took it, and now every one else sees it as completed. Maybe that's why I saw "suggested" answers?

RussellHltn wrote:I'm getting the feeling that link is only good for one shot. It was reset, I took it, and now every one else sees it as completed. Maybe that's why I saw "suggested" answers?

Remember how in one thread Tom said the IP addresses that moderators could see were coming through as the same IP address, the IP address of the Church's gateway hardware?

I wonder if this is a similar situation, the survey thinks we are all coming from the same location because we clicked the link from Tom's post...

Those were interesting questions. I liked the survey.

I'll have Yvan look into the situation. He is in Europe so his timezone is not the same as most of us.

Tom

RussellHltn wrote:OK, it worked, but I found some thing odd. For example, in Question #2, it allowed me to select multiple answer (hot much time spent in social software.) I'd think there would only be one answer.

I also found the survey "suggested" answers by creating defaults which influenced my answers.

I found the "based on 100 points question rather odd. Seems like it would be difficult to make sure it all added up to 100.

I was also confused by having "neutral" between "important" and "slightly important". It doesn't strike me as a linear order of importance.

Thanks for the input. Question 2 has been reset to be one answer.

The constant sum was introduced so we can identify the relative importance of the factors. While the exact number is not the goal, we should be able to infer some finding from the answers provided.

We tried to use predefined scales with good statistical cronbach alpha. Nonetheless, I will share your concerns with the team.

mkmurray wrote:Remember how in one thread Tom said the IP addresses that moderators could see were coming through as the same IP address, the IP address of the Church's gateway hardware?

I wonder if this is a similar situation, the survey thinks we are all coming from the same location because we clicked the link from Tom's post...

Let me post this shortcut url: http://esmt.social.sgizmo.com

Please report back if this addresses the issue. All settings in the survey remain the same.

Thanks again for the support.

tomw wrote:I'll have Yvan look into the situation. He is in Europe so his timezone is not the same as most of us.

Tom

It is 1:26am here in Berlin. I enjoy being in the community forums. This brings back memories when we were releasing new versions of the software.

Yvan

yvan wrote:Let me post this shortcut url: http://esmt.social.sgizmo.com

Please report back if this addresses the issue. All settings in the survey remain the same.

Thanks again for the support.

Ok, I was able to get in from my home computer now...

yvan wrote:It is 1:26am here in Berlin. I enjoy being in the community forums. This brings back memories when we were releasing new versions of the software.

Yvan

Thanks for the help Yvan! Now get to bed!

Tom

I also enjoyed the survey and really want to see the results.
I was able to complete it without any problems, though like Russell said the "neutral" choice didn't seem to fit.

Yes, I'm interested in the results as well.