News
January 2008
Focus on Web 2.0 and Research
You’d be forgiven if the terms Web 2.0 and Research 2.0 mean little or nothing to you. The term became popular following a 2004 conference entitled Web 2.0, organised by Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media. Web 2.0 can best be viewed as the move away from simply downloading information from the web (early web sites were simply an electronic company brochure), to one where every single one of us can provide feedback, contribute and interact.
Tip of the month
When designing tables and charts, you can drag variable names from the variables window directly into the Results Definition dialog.
Worksheet on creating a custom login page
Snap Online Web questionnaires can be composed to include a login page which verifies the identity of the respondent before allowing them to continue with the survey. This worksheet shows you how it is done. Read More
Triple-S wins industry award
Snap Surveys Technical Director Dr Steve Jenkins collected the prestigious Special Technology Award on behalf of the Triple-S Group (www.triple-s.org), authors of the only XML standard for survey interchange. The award was presented to the Triple-S Group in recognition of the outstanding contribution that Triple-S has made to the research profession since its creation in 1993, inspired by a conference paper from fellow Snap Surveys CEO, Peter Wills.
Triple-S was the first independent standard for market research data when it was created in 1993. Today, it is in constant everyday use around the globe and is now incorporated in over 60 software applications. In its lifetime, it is estimated to have saved research companies and their clients many millions of pounds.
The group’s three founder members, Keith Hughes, Steve Jenkins and Geoff Wright, remain involved to this day, alongside the group’s other two members, Laurance Gerrard and Ed Ross.
US News
US - Training
9 January, Portsmouth, US
Make a New Year's resolution to get the most out of your survey software in 2008 by attending one of our in-house training days. Improve your skills and get fully proficient in designing, administering and analysing web surveys. A full day course costs just $500 so call one of the team to find out further information or to book yourself a place.
UK News
The new Level 3 training course "Introduction to Statistics using Snap" is scheduled to run in London and Bristol from January 2008.
Scheduled dates are:
- London: Thursday January 24th, Tuesday February 19th
- Bristol: Monday January 28th, Thursday February 7th
The detailed course description has been added to the snap website. Click here for more information
Job Opportunities
There are currently openings in the Bristol, UK based software development and Data prep teams. Click here to find out more.
US Dates for Diary
7-8 February 2008, FAIR - Florida Association of Institutional Research , Crowne Plaza Oceanfront Hotel, Melbourne, Florida
Join us for the first time at this research focused conference. Drop by our stand to receive more information on Snap software and services plus receive a live demonstration of the software. Event information here.
2-5 March 2008, League for Innovation in the Community College, Adam's Mark Hotel, Denver, Colorado
Join us once again at this next year’s Innovation conference that will offer education professionals the chance to share their expertise and explore the latest developments in the community college. Event information here.
UK Dates for Diary
5 - 6 February 2008, Clinical Audit 2008, Savoy Place, London, UK
Visit us at stand one at Clinical Audit’s eighth annual conference, to see a live demonstration of the software. Event information and booking here
12-13 February 2008, Technology for Marketing & Advertising 2008, Earls Court 2, London
Drop by our stand at the UK's only dedicated event delivering data, digital and CRM solutions for marketing, media and advertising professionals. Event information here.
20 February 2008, NCVO Annual Conference 2008, The Brewery, London, EC1
Join us again at NCVO Annual Conference ‘Working with Government: challenges for civil society’. Drop by our stand to receive a live demonstration of our powerful software solution. Event information here.
Benelux News
New Hospital SurveyPaks released
Snap-Benelux, our distributor for the Benelux countries, has released two new SurveyPak questionnaires based on patient safety in hospitals - incident registration and safety culture (this one is the well known questionnaire, in English, developed by the AHRQ www.ahrq.gov ). These include professionally phrased questions and formatting. In addition, the following related questionnaires including analyses and reporting are also available: patient satisfaction, staff satisfaction and palliative care, plus resident satisfaction, mentor and service flats that are typically intended for Care Homes. All these currently exist in Dutch and French but can of course be translated into English.
For more information click here, and/or contact leo.schreurs@snap-benelux.be.