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.
* denotes required answer
*Country of Residence:
Region (please state county, state or city):
Native country:
Ethnicity:
Religion:
*Age:
*Gender: female male
*Occupation: ---------- Academic Agriculture Architecture Arts & Culture Automotive Charitable Clerical Construction Engineering Financial Services Home Worker Human Resources IT Media Medical Retail Retired Service Industry Social Services Student Travel Unemployed ---------- Other
What is your highest level of education? ---------- High School/ GCSE College/ A-levels Vocational training Bachelor of Arts/Science Master PhD Doctorate None
What types of media do you use? Please tick all applicable
What type of sites do you visit most often? Please tick all applicable
What type of magazines do you read most often? Please tick all applicable
What type of television programmes do you watch most often? Please tick all applicable
*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.
What sort of internet connection do you have? Broadband Dial-UpISDN Don't Know
If broadband, what speed does it operate at? 512kb 1mb 2mb 4mb 8mb Don't Know
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 estimateif 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?
---------- Bankers Draft Internet Banking Mobile Commerce Travelex Western Union ---------- Other
On average, how much do you approximately send with each transaction?
Rather not say £1-20 £21-50 £51-100 £101-200 £201-500 £501-1,000 £1,000 plus
*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
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
What are your least favourite sections? Please tick all applicable
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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