Monthly Archives: December 2006

SPSS Desktop Reporter

Not to go too much into detail yet, but we’ve been spending some time with SPSS Desktop Reporter 4.0. Wow. Despite the price, it’s a great software package with a lot of extremely useful features and worth every penny. What … Continue reading

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Teen Mobile Research Panel Introduced

The N, MTV/Nickelodeon’s evening network for teens, has announced an alliance with mobile community provider mbuzzy.com to create a teen wireless research panel using the mbuzzy technology platform beginning in January. The program, to be called "Teens Everywhere" will allow … Continue reading

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How big should your sample be?

Is it enough to survey 100 people or are you only going to get useful results if you survey 1,000 people? The answer, unfortunately, really depends on the questions you are asking, the likely results, and your preferred "margin of … Continue reading

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What is the impact of offering incentives?

Is it bad to offer incentives to people who complete your surveys? On more than one occasion I’ve had to answer this question for clients and others who were concerned that by offering a potential respondent some kind of perk … Continue reading

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AskItOnline Survey Software

Triexa, a Toronto-based company formerly know as Sensation Designs, is presently beta testing a new web-based survey software system called AskItOnline. Although I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet (the software is in "private" beta with only … Continue reading

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People Do What You Pay Them To

Peter Leppik posted an insightful story on the VocaLabs blog about a recent trip to his local Home Depot where an apparently store sponsored signed informed customers "9 or 10 = PASS, 1 through 8 = FAIL." The sign was … Continue reading

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Golden Hills Software SurveyGold 8.0 Released

SurveyGold from Golden Hills Software is an easy to use Internet-based survey software system that has been around for some time and has to some degree mastered the art of making online research a simple, don’t-have-to-think-to-hard-about-it process. Although the software is limited to … Continue reading

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Affordable Data Tabbing Software

I recently received a request for information about the available data tabbing (cross-tab, table generating) software that is available out there and thought I might share what I know. Personally I was a little surprised that there aren’t more software … Continue reading

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Recently Employed

Although because of the nature of this blog it is somewhat hard to say whether anyone noticed, but I haven’t updated the site much in he last few weeks. Just about one month ago I started a new position in charge of … Continue reading

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