[Membership-affairs] Dismal survey response rates

Thu Mar 12 17:53:46 CET 2015

Thanks Stefania,

I just hope that having the survey link public won't subject it to abuse or
spam attacks by bots, etc. especially as it doesn't need any authentication.

Sincerely,

Walid

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Walid Al-Saqaf, PhD

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Milan, Stefania <Stefania.Milan at eui.eu>
wrote:

>  The post (slighlty teaked) is here:
> http://www.ncuc.org/ncuc-is-surveying-its-members-please-participate/
>
> It can also be posted right next to the slide show, if so desired.
>
>
>  I have tweets scheduled till tomorrow night. Please re-tweet. They are 4
> per day, every 6 hours, (23:59, 6am, 12pm, 6pm, Amsterdam time). It might
> not be the best way to reach potential responders, but visibility to an
> initiative of this kind cannot hurt!
>
>
>  S.
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> *Da:* Walid AL-SAQAF <wsaqaf at gmail.com>
> *Inviato:* giovedì 12 marzo 2015 17.39
>
> *A:* Milan, Stefania
> *Cc:* membership-affairs at lists.ncuc.org
> *Oggetto:* Re: [Membership-affairs] Dismal survey response rates
>
>  Thanks for the suggestion Stefanie. Below is a two liner. Feel free to
> copy edit and tidy them up as you see fit:
>
>  NCUC's membership affairs team has formulated and distributed a survey
> in early March 2015 to elicit feedback from NCUC members on ways to improve
> engagement. The survey's findings are expected to help formulate policies
> and steps to improve inreach efforts and enhance community participation in
> the various NCUC activities.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
> Walid
>
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>
> Walid Al-Saqaf, PhD
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Milan, Stefania <Stefania.Milan at eui.eu>
> wrote:
>
>> One morepoint: there is no mention of the survey on the NCUC website.
>>
>> Shall we write a tiny entry? it cannot hurt.
>> Maybe you, Walid, write a two-liner and add the link, and I can put it
>> online.
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> Da: Walid AL-SAQAF <wsaqaf at gmail.com>
>> Inviato: giovedì 12 marzo 2015 17.18
>> A: Milan, Stefania
>> Cc: membership-affairs at lists.ncuc.org
>>  Oggetto: Re: [Membership-affairs] Dismal survey response rates
>>
>> Thanks Stefania for catching those errors. It's amazing how everyone
>> missed them until now :)
>>
>> I've removed the duplicate entry but left the EC option as it
>> shouldn't be a problem to have people answering. Maybe EC folks have
>> some interesting things to say :)
>>
>> As for analysis, I surely hope we'll do some regression analysis but
>> only if we have at a high enough response rate. So far, we only have
>> 21.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Walid
>>
>> -----------------
>>
>> Walid Al-Saqaf, PhD
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Milan, Stefania <Stefania.Milan at eui.eu>
>> wrote:
>> > Walid
>> >
>> > I finally managed to take the survey and...
>> >
>> > two minor things that we might be able to correct now (or later in the
>> > analysis phase)
>> >
>> >
>> > In Q16: the option 'Policy & Implementation Working Group' appears
>> twice (Q
>> >
>> > In Q19: it might be very relevant how often people post to the NCUC-EC
>> list
>> > as it is... all, restricted to EC members and a handful of observers.
>> >
>> >
>> > In any case, both these are basically irrelevant (we can even use them
>> as
>> > control variables, eh eh)
>> >
>> >
>> > Well done, thanks again
>> >
>> > I can help in the analysis by the way, even if I don't expect we will
>> run
>> > regression or modelling :-)
>> >
>> > Best, Stefania
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ________________________________
>> > Da: membership-affairs-bounces at lists.ncuc.org
>> > <membership-affairs-bounces at lists.ncuc.org> per conto di Walid AL-SAQAF
>> > <wsaqaf at gmail.com>
>> > Inviato: mercoledì 11 marzo 2015 18.07
>> > A: membership-affairs at lists.ncuc.org
>> > Oggetto: Re: [Membership-affairs] Dismal survey response rates
>> >
>> >
>> > Agree with both you Amr and Stephanie. Will extend the deadline as we
>> get
>> > closer to it.
>> >
>> > Thanks for your wise thoughts :)
>> >
>> > Sincerely,
>> >
>> > Walid
>> >
>> > On Mar 11, 2015 4:59 PM, "Amr Elsadr" <aelsadr at egyptig.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Along with sending out reminders, it may also be a good idea to extend
>> the
>> >> deadline for submitting responses a little.
>> >>
>> >> Although this group’s been in quite a bit of dialogue involving
>> creating
>> >> the survey, the rest of the members haven’t been as engaged. A
>> combination
>> >> of a campaign to get members to respond along with a little bit of a
>> >> deadline extension may be helpful.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >>
>> >> Amr
>> >>
>> >> On Mar 11, 2015, at 4:52 PM, Stephanie Perrin
>> >> <stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Don't despair, we are all slow off the mark (I havent filled it out,
>> and
>> >> > will probably require 3 reminders, that is pretty much standard).  I
>> think
>> >> > it is a good idea to get Maryam to send it out, you are probably
>> right about
>> >> > the filters....some people only read their filtered files once a
>> week.
>> >> > cheers Stephanie
>> >> > On 15-03-11 7:22 AM, Walid AL-SAQAF wrote:
>> >> >> Dear friends,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> It looks like the NCUC survey is not getting enough traction as far
>> as
>> >> >> I can tell. As of today, we have only 16 responses (less than 4%).
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Do you have any suggestions to encourage more participation? Would
>> it
>> >> >> be a good idea for example to post a message on the ICANN Fellows
>> >> >> mailing list (or other lists) for example where I know many are
>> >> >> actually NCUC members? We don't want to abuse those lists but if
>> they
>> >> >> have to do with ICANN maybe such a step could be acceptable.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Could Maryam send out the invitation directly to members (via bcc)
>> >> >> through mass email instead of through the NCUC-discuss? It is not
>> >> >> unlikely that some members just ignore or automatically filter out
>> >> >> emails with the [NCUC-DISCUSS] heading (or other mailing list
>> messages
>> >> >> for that matter).
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Any ideas?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Sincerely,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Walid
>> >> >> _______________________________________________
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