Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Online Surveys

Hello, remember me?  Your friendly geeky librarian?  I can't believe how long this post has taken me to post.  I started this blog post on February 8 and have just finished it.

This reminds me of the early days of having my own email account in college (it was a pretty big deal for me to have my own email account back then!).  My friends would send me forwards of emails title things like, "Let's get to know each other!" with questions like, "What are you wearing right now?" and "What is your favorite ice cream?" and "Who was the last person you spoke to?"

Usually these surveys were right in the email but sometimes they would send them in a format similar to survey monkey.  Friends would also send quizzes to each other too.  Once everyone got a facebook account my friends would send these surveys/quizzes in facebook.

Anyway, when I first started thinking about survey monkey I thought that I wouldn't be able to use it for work.  After talking with some of my co-workers I realized I could survey the teens to find out what types of programs they would like to see.  Since they don't always make it to all of my programs I never have all of my regulars in the same room at the same time it can be hard to ask them these questions in person.

I did start a potential survey for teens here. I will not send it out until I have permission to do so but I do think an online survey like this would really help me in planning future programs.

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