Maastricht University Survey Regarding Forums Use

[Maastricht University]

Dear forums members,

we are two doctoral researchers at Maastricht University (Netherlands) looking into the effectiveness of online support forums and what you think of them. Toward that end, we have prepared an academic online survey that takes just 10-15 minutes to complete. The survey is available at:

http://www.fdewb.unimaas.nl/marketing/research/forums

We would like to invite you to share your opinion with us. We already received many enthusiastic responses in the HP-UX forum, but we would like to get a broader view of all forums in general. Please have a look at statements from your peers:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=229315

In order to reward you for your effort, we will of course share the results of the study with you.

Thank you very much for your highly appreciated input!

Vera and Caroline

[Jerome Henry]

Done.
Would be great if you could post statistics on your survey !
Good luck

J

[Jerome Henry]

Hi people,

I encourage you to do it, can be useful for them and not to much time taking for each of us...
(plz 0 here)

J

[George_Dodds]

Done

Cheers

George

[Huc_1]

Hi, Vera and Caroline

Hope this proves usufull to you both and I would also like to see the result of all this

enjoy,

J-P

[Maastricht University]

Dear forums members,

thank you for your interest in our study and its results. However, in order to make representative analyses, we still need many more responses. The success of the study really depends on your help. If you have not participated yet, we warmly invite you to do so!

Thanks a lot for your cooperation, and many greetings,

Vera and Caroline

[Stuart Browne]

Did this a week or two ago (found the post in the HP-UX forums actually!).

(0 pts pls.)

[Denver Osborn]

completed the survey and hope it helps!

0 points plz

[Denis Goffinet]

Done,

I hope to see one day result of this interesting survey.

Regards
Denis

( no points of course )

[Oskar Maag]

... good on You, Vera and Caroline!

This should improve forums by gaining information from quiet forum readers (as me) and show the importance and economical value!

To all contributing forum members: great job, mostly precise anwers, good links.

Thank You all!
Oskar

[Maastricht University]

Dear forums members,

thank you for all your responses. Of course, we will make our results available. Only with your help, we can understand why people participate in online communities. We think the results are going to be very interesting. However, we still need many more responses. Therefore, if you have not yet participated, it would be really great if you could help us by sharing your opinions about the forums. Furthermore, if you know some forums members who might be interested in providing us their forums experiences, could you maybe ask them to share those with us?

Again thanks a lot for your cooperation and many greetings,

Caroline and Vera

[Maastricht University]

Dear forums members,

we are half way through our data collection. Thanks to all participants, we already have 200 responses. But to draw valid conclusions, we need a total of at least 400 responses. So, please help us by sharing your opinion about the forums with us. Of course, the results will be made available to you.

Thank you very much and many greetings,

Vera and Caroline

[Dave Falloon]

Just finished the survey.

I like your topic of research, I too will be awaiting you findings.

I always thought people participated in online communities for the same reasons they participate in physical communities ... to gather enough favors and political connections to one day topple the current governing regime and in its stead form a new autocracy, yielding you near limitless power MWahhahahahaha :)

Or it could just be that you enjoy helping people out, but whats the fun in that, right?

Dave

[Maastricht University]

Dear forums members,

we once again would like to draw your attention to this survey. You can freely state your opinions about the forums. In order to fulfill academic standards, we still need many more respondents. So, please help us by providing us with your experiences from the forums. Furthermore, if you post a short message here after you are done, we will reward you with 2 points.

Thank you very much and many greetings,

Vera and Caroline

[Maastricht University]

Dear forums members,

As some of you might already know, we have prepared an academic online survey that takes just 10-15 minutes to complete about your opinion about the forums. Raise your voice and we can provide better results.
Hence, we would like to warmly invite you to share your experiences with us. In order to appreciate your effort, you will be notified of the findings. Thank you very much for your highly appreciated input!

Vera and Caroline

[John Meissner]

Done. It only took about 10 or 15 minutes. It would be great if you could post the results and a link to your final findings :)

It's good to see we're getting positive attention like this and being recognized as a great resource

[Maastricht University]

Dear forums members,

Again, we need to draw your attention to our academic survey. For all those who already participated, we would like to express our sincere thanks. However, we still have not reached 400 respondents. Therefore, we would like to invite everybody who has not yet participated to help us by providing your opinions about the forums. Thanks in advance and best regards,

Vera and Caroline

[Maastricht University]

Dear forums members,

Thank you for all the great responses so far. However, for a sound analysis, we still need about a hundred more answers. For all those who have not participated yet, please please please do so. With your cooperation, we could complete our data collection before Christmas! Thank you very much, and with kind regards,

Vera and Caroline

[Maastricht University]

Dear forums members,

thank you all for your willingness to read through our reminders again. Unfortunately, we still donâ t have enough responses to our survey yet. We are approaching Christmas - the time for helping and giving ;-) â so we were hoping to appeal to your good heartâ ¦If you have not filled in the questionnaire yet, please please please: JUST DO IT!

We wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Vera and

[Olivier Drouin]

I already did it and Im the only @ work using the forum.

Come on guys, it should be worth your time if they get some conclusions out of this !!

[Adam Moody_1]

How about putting this request into some more forum areas?

[Maastricht University]

Dear forums members,

the results have been posted!!! Please follow this link to see the respective new thread: http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=723003

Greetings,

Vera and Caroline