I got this request the other day and finally decided to take the survey that it asked me to. It was relatively painless and it might gather useful information (although obviously it’s not a scientific survey); so I thought I’d help publicize it. If you’re a health care/ medical blogger, this survey is looking for you.
This poll is co-produced by Envision Solutions and The Medical Blog Network (TMBN).
WHY WE ARE CONDUCTING THIS SURVEY
Over the past few years, the healthcare blogosphere has grown in size and importance. This means that more people are blogging about medical issues, healthcare economics, policy and other topics. While we have a general idea of who is blogging about healthcare and why, we don’t know nearly enough. We produced this survey to increase understanding of the shape and size of the healthcare blogosphere. It will take you about 10 minutes to complete this poll.
WHY WE NEED YOUR HELP
We can’t get a better understanding of the healthcare blogosphere without your help. We need as many healthcare bloggers (those devoting at least 30% of their blogging time to healthcare) to take the survey so that we can make valid conclusions about the size and shape of this growing part of the global blogging community.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU
The first benefit of participation is increased knowledge. You will help your fellow bloggers better understand who is blogging about healthcare and why they are doing it. More knowledge will benefit everyone who cares about the healthcare blogosphere.
We are also providing survey participants with the opportunity to opt-in to receive one or more of the following incentives:
1. All respondents will have the opportunity to opt-in to receive a free report on the results of this survey.
2. Envision Solutions and TMBN will randomly select the e-mail addresses of ten (10) respondents to receive a $25 Amazon.com gift certificate after the survey closes in the fall. (Non-US winners will receive a gift certificate in their native currency.)
3. We will also randomly select the e-mail addresses of five (5) respondents who will be profiled in the report outlining the survey results.
WHEN THE SURVEY WILL CLOSE
We plan to run this survey until September 29, 2006. We feel this will allow plenty of time to get the word out about the survey and collect responses. We need your help to make valid conclusions about the healthcare blogosphere. Please, tell your fellow healthcare bloggers about the survey and encourage them to participate. More responses = a stronger survey.
Bloggers, Journalists, Others: If you are going to be writing about the survey, please consider using our Web-ready logo (with the link to the survey) in online articles and blog posts about the study. View and download the logo by clicking here.
We plan to field this survey again in the future to track changes in the global healthcare blogosphere.
PRIVACY POLICY
We value and respect your privacy. We will never:
– Sell or redistribute your e-mail address
– Contact you about non survey-related issues without your express permission.
Your responses are strictly confidential and will only be used to analyze data collected in this poll.
We have developed a comprehensive privacy policy. Please click here to read it.
RESULTS ANNOUNCEMENT
We plan to announce the preliminary results of this study in late fall. We will present the full results at the 2006 Healthcare Blogging Summit taking place in Washington, DC on December 11, 2006.
This survey seemed geared towards more “conventional” medical bloggers, and a fair number of the questions didn’t really apply very closely to me. However, many did. the survey takes about 10 minutes to complete. Click below to start the survey:
