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We prefer hosting our own wiki(survey) software, vs. using a third-party or using email. There are two good open source survey software packages: phpESP and PHP Surveyor. We chose phpESP for our purposes. There are four potential advantages to hosting your own software, if you can:
- The survey is up if your blog site is up with no additional lag time
- Some users may not be willing to follow an "off site" link
- You have the advantage of understanding and controlling the underlying statistical manipulations
- The survey will have the same look as your site
Email surveys may be ignored, or treated as spam. We've found that if folk are at your site, they will be more willing to complete a survey on your site than respond to an email survey.
Both phpESP and PHP Surveyor are written in PHP and use a MySQL database. They both allow you to format the public [presentation] areas of the survey using CSS templates. Both also allow you to export your survey results to CSV so that you can analyze the results in a spreadsheet such as Excel, though phpESP offers internal statistical analysis and presentation of results without exporting, including cross analysis and cross tabulation. PHP Surveyor has more predefined quesiton types, though phpESP gets there with increased flexibility. phpESP has gotten good reviews on its ease of use and statistical rigour. As soon as we free up some time, we'll subject both to Bernard Golden's Open Source Maturity Model and see how they compare.
Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey is looking for software to conduct a survey concerning blogging for her ECON 475 Econometrics class. We hope this information helps you. Let us know if you need anything in this area.
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I'm Joseph A. di Paolantonio and my web log provides ideas on the best of the best in news. technology, practices, services and people supporting and living the TeleInterActive Lifestyle, impacting buisnesses, people, communications, life and work styles, and pretty much anything else that seems appropriate. I'm an executive with over 25 years of commercial experience with a technical focus in developing advanced data analysis methods. I'm a part of InterActive Systems & Consulting, Inc.
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TeleInterActive Networks, a service mark of IASC, hosts open source applications for small and medium enterprises including CMS, blogs, wikis, database applications, portals and mobile access. We provide the tools for SME to put their customer at the center of their business, and leverage information management in a way previously reserved for larger organizations.
