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Good evening ... I just completed the survey for the providers. I only found out that the surveys being available because I receive the messages from the discussion forums and happened to check out the home page. I am wondering if you would like us to encourage K-Net users to complete the surveys by posting a link to the ODBS homepage. By the way ... I did get Terence to create the URL for http://odbs.knet.ca that points to the homepage. So everyone can use this link to get to the ODBS portal ... Let us know how you would like the surveys promoted (and when). Brian |
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Excellent, thanks for that. I have a friend who lives in Sioux Lookout who responded this afternoon, so I'm not sure if you have the honour of being our first or not. I was going to send you a message in a few days, but since you're here... I'll go through our documentation and insert your new (and much improved) URL. We've been cultivating a list of community contacts (librarians, teachers, YICTs etc...) whom we'll be telling about the survey directly. We'd love to have as many KNET users as possible. In regards to promoting the survey, we're ready to go live immediately. If you could find a spot on the KNET/myKNET page for a link that would be ideal. Would you like us to write up a few brief sentences to use as an intro? Thanks for everything. |
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For posterity's sake, I am quoting the following text from Brian Beaton: "Dominika / Mark / Adam … I posted a KNEWS story about your work and the surveys at http://media.knet.ca/node/6610 Cal created a link to the ODBS Meeting Place on the KNET homepage. He also posted a notice on the MYKNET.ORG homepage with a direct link to the survey. Next week, we will post the notice of the survey with the link on the KNET homepage in the ANNOUNCEMENT box." |
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Hi Brian, Adding those links is greatly appreciated (thanks Cal). We had seven new respondents this morning, so there is interest. A few weeks ago our team sent out emails introducing ourselves to various communities. We've also built up some contacts via the YICT breeze room. We'll be doing exactly as you've suggested and following up with them later this week. We also have a paper version available. We really want to include the opinions of people who may not want or be able to respond online. I hope you understand how difficult it is for us city slickers to get into the mindset of rural northern folks. We don’t always know what the needs of your communities are, but we’re trying to find out. We realize not all of our questions will seem useful from an FN perspective. Still, these questions may be highly useful to us, and will in turn help us better serve your communities. Filling these gaps in our knowledge is a first step towards putting ourselves in a position to address those needs. Getting people from FN communities involved has been one of our major concerns. Thirteen weeks is not a lot of time to build relationships, especially with people who have good reasons to be skeptical of the motives of urbanites. The survey is much more than a data prospecting expedition, it’s an invitation to get people from your communities involved as things move forward. As for how we’ll be using the info... Since the surveys are hosted on Moodle, and the KO communities run Moodle, I hope this is at least an indication of our intention to share. thanks, Mark |