Lampshade

 

Lampshade Survey

Thank You for taking part in Lampshade's survey. We appreciate your time and effort. It shouldn't take more than 10 minutes of your time.

For those of you that are unaware of Lampshade, Lampshade is a social video hosting site primarily aimed at showing films from and about developing communities. Our aim is to facilitate independent video hubs where people and communities can be trained to make these films. We also uniquely offer a payment scheme for the filmmakers' work.

We are conducting this survey in order to understand how we can best improve our site and offer services more specifically for your needs and wishes.

Many thanks for your valuable input.

All your answers will be kept confidential and only analysed on an aggregated manner.

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Questionnaire

1.Demograhics

*Country of Residence:

Region (please state county, state or city):

Native country:

Ethnicity:

Religion:

*Age:

*Gender: female  male

*Occupation:

What is your highest level of education?

2.Media

What types of media do you use? Please tick all applicable

Internet
Journals
Magazines
Newspapers
Podcasts
Radio
Television
Other

What type of sites do you visit most often? Please tick all applicable

Arts & Culture
Email
Entertainment
Financial
Food
Gardening
Health & Beauty
Music
News
Politics
Social Networks
Sports
Technology
Travel
Video Sites
Other

What type of magazines do you read most often? Please tick all applicable

Arts & Culture
Computing
Entertainment
Financial
Food
Gardening
Health & Beauty
Media
Music
News
Photography
Politics
Social
Sports
Technology
Travel
Other

What type of television programmes do you watch most often? Please tick all applicable

Arts & Culture
Documentary
Drama
Films
Food
Gardening
Health & Beauty
Music
News
Politics
Reality
Sports
Travel
Other
Internet

*How many days of the week are you online?

*How many hours per day are you online? (If not everyday, please divide and make an estimate.)

Which browsers do you use? Please tick as many as applicable.

Firefox
Internet Explorer
Netscape
Opera
Safari
Other

What sort of internet connection do you have? Broadband  Dial-Up
ISDN  Don't Know

If broadband, what speed does it operate at? 512kb  1mb  2mb  
4mb  8mb  Don't Know

Mobile phone

Do you own a mobile phone? YesNo

What network is your mobile registered with?

How many text messages/sms do you send a week? Please make an estimate
if your not sure: None  1-9  10-29  30-49  50+  
I don't know what a text message is.

*Do you ever send money abroad?Yes  No

If yes which service(s) do you use to transfer money abroad?

On average, how much do you approximately send with each transaction?

Advertising

*Would you prefer Lampshade website to be a subscription service or to have advertising on the site? Please select one.

advertising   subscription service

Does the prominence of our adverts affect your overall experience of using the site? Yes  No

Would you be happy to help the filmmakers make some money from their films by clicking on an advert at the beginning or end of the film. All you have to do is watch the advert. You do not have to pay or sign up to any service for us to earn this money from the advertisers?

Yes
No
Depends on the video
Depends on the filmmaker

*Do you think this would deter you from watching the clips? Yes No

*Have you ever clicked on an internet advert before? Yes No

Would you prefer this commercial to be placed at the beginning or end of the film? Beginning  End

Lampshade website

Please rank the following aspects of our site on a scale from 1-10.
10 means very positive and 1 means very negative.

Video clip content:
1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10

Article content:
1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  

Overall web design:
1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  

Ease of navigation within the site:
1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  

Relevance of the information bar (the left hand column):
1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9  10  

What are your favourite sections? Please tick all applicable

Home
About Us
Countries
News
Topics
Discussions
Links
Gallery
Submit
Search
None

What are your least favourite sections? Please tick all applicable

Home
About Us
Countries
News
Topics
Discussions
Links
Gallery
Submit
Search
None

Do you find it more useful/relevant to search for a clip by country, or by topic? Please select one. By Country  By Topic

How do you think Lampshade's site can be improved?

What would deter you from using Lampshade?

What other information, if any, would you like to see on the site?

Could you see Lampshade being used as a portal to navigate the web from?
(E.g. accessing other websites from.) YesNo

Would you set it as your home page? Yes  No  Not Sure

Would you recommend Lampshade to your friends? Yes No

And lastly, any other comments you wish to make?

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