Snap News

February 2008

Tip of the month

You can change the gaps between your questions by selecting the question, choosing Show | Space Before from the Toolbar topic menu and adjusting the value.

February worksheet: Creating compound grids

You can place question grids next to each other to make them easier to complete. For example, you could combine two grid questions on goods and services; one on how satisfied people are with them, and the other on how important they are to people. Read more

Renovated Bristol, UK offices

Plans to revitalise UK’s Bristol office had been long awaited. The team is now enjoying spacious and newly renovated offices. They benefit from double the previous floor space and consolidation of all departments into one building. The training department has now vastly improved its facilities and gained a trainee breakout area with floor to ceiling windows. This positive transition has no doubt contributed to the enthusiasm and spirit of all the Snap Surveys staff based in Bristol, UK.

US Prize Draw Winners

It is tradition that at each conference Snap holds a raffle at the booth for a single PC license of Snap ProNet. The drawing for the 3 Fall conferences we participated in was held on Jan 15th 2008. We would like to congratulate the following:

• Winner of the 2007 North East Association of Institutional Research (NEAIR) conference drawing was Ms. Phyllis Perry, Banner Senior Functional Analyst - Connecticut Community College, Hartford, CT.
• Winner of the 2007 American Evaluation Association (AEA) Conference drawing was Ms. Aisha D. Williams, LMSW Trainer/Auditor - APS Healthcare, Atlanta, GA.
• Winner of the 2007 Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Conference drawing was Gloria M. Gutman PhD, OBC Research Associate at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC CANADA.

Snap ProNet enables our winners to conduct evaluation, satisfaction or internal surveys using paper, telephone, web or email.

UK Training Team is expanding

We’re not talking about the post-Christmas bulge, but a new recruit in the training department. We would like to welcome Matt Troy (shown right) to the UK Training team. Matt has come from a background in training staff in the accounts and IT of complex reservation systems for the tourism industry. Matt is based in Bristol, UK.

Going Green – Every Little Helps

As part of our initiative to reduce our carbon footprint, here is the first of many improvements we have made. Many of our promotional products are now made from recycled or recyclable materials.

• Pens - Made using biodegradable plastic
• Mints - No, not the mint itself! The packaging is made from recyclable materials
• Cotton Bags - Our cotton bags are good, strong, reuseable bags that fold neatly for you to take shopping
• Paper Bags - These can be easily recycled
• Note pads - 70-page card cover notepad, made from recycled paper.

To get inspiration for your own carbon footprint improvements, please see our other environmental commitments.