A Job Well Done

My humble thanks to you,

       Thank you again and again for helping with my survey because I am still surprised with how well this project came together. Once I figured out what I wanted to ask people about it was easy to put the questions on the website. Questionpro.com works really well, and for their free version you still have a decent number of question types to choose from in order to make your survey more interesting than simply ‘yes or no’ questions. If you don’t mind putting in a little bit of money you can get even more questions on questionpro.com, but I did the free version and my survey still did well.

       The part of the survey that I was the most worried about was probably getting enough people to take my survey. I distributed information on my survey on Facebook, Twitter, and here on my blog in order to open more opportunities for people to take my survey. I easily got the needed amount of people to take my survey, yet I feel like I could have received more responses if I had used “Call of Action” properly. Call of Action is simply what you use to persuade others to take your survey, and I do not think I utilized that concept very well.

       I still believe that surveys will come in handy in most occupations, and once I get a job I believe that getting a response will be easier because I will know who my target audience is; whether it is students, parents, board members, politicians, etc., it can only get easier from here now that I have made one. Once again another project has come together and I am looking for your input and questions so that I can see what I can improve on, and so that I can learn from any questions you have as well.

Your fellow blogger,

Ann Stang

The Results Are In!

Fellow bloggers,
      
       Thank you to all who helped by taking my survey! I am proud to say that I have a 100% completion rate for all those you took my survery, so no one dropped out once they started it! By the responses I received I believe I have found a small connection between social media sites and how they affect people's crying patterns. The majority of the people who took my survey were female and younger than 20. Almost half of them spend more than 5 hours on social media sites during the span of a week, yet most of those who participated said that they rarely cried. What was interesting was the differnece in the gender ratio. I'm not sure if the male gender just simply didn't feel like taking my survey, or if they didn't take it because crying is a sensitive subject for men. It's still sad how much crying is repressed by social aspects of society; it's been repressed way before media sites were ever created, but even more so that they are available. I also saw in the results for my survey that there was a variety of thoughts about if social media sights influence how much someone cries, but over half said that something on a media site made them cry. The mixture of thoughts on the influence social media sites have towards crying made it seem as though the participants in the survey were not entirely sure on what to think and I believe that more research should be done to see if media sites do affect crying or not. 

       If you want to look at the results to this survey more closely I have posted a visual summary in the link below, so feel free to look at that and if you have any questions please let me know.

http://questionpro.com/s/1-2354975-3653147

Yours truly,

Ann Stang

Survey-licious

Hello all!
       In my last post I mentioned that I was creating a survey for my Exploring Digital Media class at SCSU, and now I am asking for my readers to take 5 minutes out of their busy day to answer ten short questions. If you have any questions about the survey please feel free to ask! I have the link listed below. Let me know what you think! I really do care about your feedback!

Yours truly,

Ann Stang

http://questionpro.com/t/AKW3JZQFvp

Surveying My Options

Dear readers,

       I am yet again starting out on another digital media adventure! My next digital exploration is to make an online survey, and it has been surprisingly hard to think of something to ask people about when you do not have a prompt. It is also proving to be difficult to pick the right website to start a survey in because you do not know how it will work until you try it out. I am actually excited to start this project because I can see it holding relevance for a future occupation and because I would like to see how people respond to my survey. I am going to be posting the link to my survey on my blog so that you can take a look at it and hopefully put in your input!

       My plan so far is to figure out what my topic is and then brainstorm various questions for my survey as well as researching different survey sights to see which one will work best for me and for my fellow readers. Wish me luck!

Yours truly,

Ann Stang

Twitter Page

Here is a picture of the final outcome of my Twitter page! If you have any questions about Twitter feel free to ask me!

Tweets to go?

Long time no see!

       

       It has been a while since I last written to all my fellow bloggers and now that I have finished my Twitter project I actually have some information to share with you!

       Twitter was a little difficult to set up and to understand how to customize the profile page, and once I got those items settled I also found it difficult to search for organizations and people on their website. I also didn’t like the limit of characters in the Tweets, but it keeps you speaking at a point and not wandering like in a blog; however, I am happy with how my page turned out, and it does hold promise in keeping people connected with companies and organizations who correlate with their profession and interests.

      

       I still do not see the total benefit of using Twitter professionally even if it connects you with organizations and individuals with your major and future profession. There seemed to be a lot of hoops to jump through to get started, like having a certain number of sites that you follow before creating your profile. I made it through my Twitter project, learned some new things about digital media and how I would and would not want to use this form of media in my future profession.

That’s about it for now & I’ll talk to you soon,

Ann Stang           

Here we go!

Welcome back readers,

        I am now heading into my next digital adventure by creating a Twitter account...duh duh duh….. To be honest, this project is probably the one that scares me the most. I know plenty of friends who have gotten sucked into Twitter and who spend a lot of time on there. I am going to do my best to make my Twitter feed professional, yet interesting. I have no idea how Twitter works so I also do not know how I am going to accomplish this project, but I will simply take things one step at a time and figure it out as I go.

        I am not entirely sure if I will continue with Twitter once this project is complete, but I plan to go by my motto of not judging things until I at least try them. I use this motto for everything including music, people, and food. So why not use it for Twitter? Wish me luck!

Yours truly,

Ann Stang