This RSS feed should be viewed using an RSS Reader or RSS Aggregator. Firefox users click the Subscribe to feed icon. Feed URL: http://www.snapsurveys.com/ http://www.snapsurveys.com/focuson/ Monthly News, Events, Focus On articles and Worksheets from Snap Surveys en-us snapsurveys.com http://www.snapsurveys.com/focuson/focuson-april-2008.shtml Snap web questionnaires can now incorporate slider controls as well as the more traditional radio buttons and check boxes. But if you build sliders into your questionnaires, are you alienating particular respondent groups, or improving the respondent experience for everyone? This article presents the results of a research experiment conducted by Snap's technical Director, Dr Steve Jenkins, and Snap user Dr Nicola Stanley, comparing responses to two questionnaires: one using standard radio buttons, the other using visual slider controls. http://www.snapsurveys.com/work_sheets/worksheet_037/ Snap Online can send out email invitations and reminders automatically. It keeps a record of which respondents have completed the questionnaire, and reminds those who have still to complete it. Respondents will not necessarily have to log in to the survey, as you can set up the link to the survey to identify them automatically. http://www.snapsurveys.com/focuson/focuson-march-2008.shtml Invaluable, Inexpensive and at your fingertips. Peter Wills, CEO of Snap Surveys, reviews the sources of readily available information that will complement any primary research that is being planned. http://www.snapsurveys.com/work_sheets/worksheet_036/ When respondents complete an online survey, you can specify the website that they are then taken to. You can set up the website address to be specific to a respondent by including one or more survey variables in it. http://www.snapsurveys.com/focuson/focuson-february-2008.shtml An industry-watch report by Snap Survey's CEO, Peter Wills, on the trends that will affect the survey industry. http://www.snapsurveys.com/work_sheets/worksheet_035/ 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. http://www.snapsurveys.com/focuson/focuson-january-2008.shtml 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. http://www.snapsurveys.com/work_sheets/worksheet_034.shtml The New Year worksheet looks at changing the look of survey login pages. It explains how to add text and graphics to a login page. As a bonus it also covers how to set up the invitation email so that the respondent is logged in automatically, saving them trouble while providing you with their login details for reference. http://www.snapsurveys.com/focuson/focuson-december-2007.shtml The Scotsman Publications which publishes The Scotsman, Edinburgh Evening News, Scotland on Sunday and scotsman.com, has completed a number of probing research projects for internal strategic purposes and for product development. http://www.snapsurveys.com/work_sheets/worksheet_033.shtml Merging surveys in Snap has become even easier using a database link. This worksheet tells you how to merge slightly different surveys and set up a derived variable to identify them for analysis. http://www.snapsurveys.com/focuson/focuson-november-2007.shtml Adventa, a rural development initiative that provides assistance and support to Monmouthshire’s rural businesses, has found advantages and disadvantages of using both paper and PDA devices in the field. Read on to find out their experiences. http://www.snapsurveys.com/work_sheets/worksheet_032.shtml This worksheet describes how to publish the same survey in multiple languages. The tutorial covers creating a dual-language questionnaire in Welsh and English for Snap Online. http://www.snapsurveys.com/focuson/focuson-october-2007.shtml This summer has officially been the wettest on record! The worst affected county was Gloucestershire, where over 135,000 homes lost their water supply and a total of 4,500 properties were affected. SurveyShop assisted the councils in conducting a flood assessment survey, which helped to secure vital funding for the area. http://www.snapsurveys.com/work_sheets/worksheet_031.shtml Snap 9 allows you to design a number of editions of the same questionnaire each targeted at different media. This month's worksheet illustrates that facility by showing how to create a web questionnaire from an existing paper questionnaire. http://www.snapsurveys.com/focuson/focuson-september-2007.shtml When designed and executed correctly, staff surveys can provide invaluable information to any organisation and act as an effective performance management tool. The benefits of finding out your employees' views and acting on them are endless and include improving staff retention and increasing productivity. http://www.snapsurveys.com/work_sheets/worksheet_030.shtml The Slider program is a new addition to the SurveyPlus suite of programs. It enables you to add slider controls to single-response and quantity questions for all forms of web and offline questionnaires. This worksheet shows you how