SurveyGold is intuitive survey software because it works similarly to Windows Explorer. It is easy to learn, and its survey-creation tools make building and analyzing questionnaires a simple process.
SurveyGold garnered the Excellence Award for the fourth year year in a row according to a 2015 review of survey software by TopTenREVIEWS. SurveyGold also received a 9.48 out of 10 rating and was recognized as the "Best Intuitive Survey Software". Their verdict is: We are not affiliated with TopTenREVIEWS in any way. The complete review is available on the TopTenREVIEWS website.
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SurveyGold provides the ability to display an image alongside a response choice. Setting this up is easily done within the SurveyGold application. However, if you require that an image or hyperlink be included in the actual question text (as opposed to being displayed alongside a response choice), you can do this by adding a little bit of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) to your question text or instruction text. Using HTML you can easily put an image or a link or any other HTML effects in the question text of an online survey form. Space Shuttle Survey Example
If you are unfamiliar with HTML, this can look daunting. So, let's unpack this. It's actually very straightforward. How to Add an ImageUse an image tag <img src="URL_FOR_IMAGE_GOES_HERE"> in the question text to include the image. Refer to W3Schools for more information on the img tag. For our example survey, we used Google to locate a URL for a public domain image of the Space Shuttle. The URL is http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_launching.jpg/220px-Space_Shuttle_Columbia_launching.jpg. We us Use a couple of line break tags <br /><br /> in the question text before the image and after the image to set it apart visually. Refer to W3Schools for more information the br tag. How to Add a HyperlinkUse an anchor tag <a href="URL_FOR_CONTENT_GOES_HERE" target="_blank">TEXT GOES HERE</a> in the question text to include the link to the desired content. The Refer to W3Schools for more information on the a tag. For our example survey, we used Google to locate a URL for a Wikipedia article to serve as reference data. The URL is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle. and was placed in the location URL_FOR_CONTENT_GOES_HERE. The text Here is reference information about the Space Shuttle. was placed where TEXT GOES HERE so that it appears properly in the question text as a hyperlink. How to Eliminate HTML from Question Text When Viewing ResultsIf you use HTML in your question text, there is one other consideration that pertains to viewing survey results. SurveyGold normally uses the question text when displaying survey results in the View Results and Analyze Results tabs. When HTML is included in the question text, this will produce very unsightly question text when displaying survey results. To resolve this, enter the question text that you want to see when displaying survey results in the Chart Title tab in the question properties sheet. When SurveyGold detects a chart title, it displays that as the question text when producing reports and viewing results. This results in reports and charts don't have all the HTML debris contained in them when displaying the question text. For our example, we specified the following Chart Title: Does this look like the Space Shuttle? We have been busy the past few months producing software updates. Here are the highlights
How To Acquire the UpdateTo acquire SurveyGold application updates:
A software update dialog appears and the process begins by downloading the software directly from the SurveyGold software update server. After the software update files are downloaded to your computer, the process automatically installs the software updates. Normally, this entire process only takes a moment. Your data is not affected in any way as a result of software updates. Normally, when survey responses are recorded in the Conduct Survey tab of the SurveyGold application, the current "date of entry" is recorded in the response record. However, SurveyGold also provides the optional ability to specify a specific date (e.g., a date in the past) for which the response occurred. This feature (enabled via the "Confirm response date upon Conclude Survey" SurveyGold preference setting) provides the ability to accurately record time-sensitive responses long after the survey was conducted while reflecting the date and time the past that the response actually occurred.
Furthermore, SurveyGold provides the ability to view a subset of all respondents to a given survey based upon any response to any question or a response date range or both. This "filter" feature allows you the ability to view respondents from a particular time period. It is then possible to create graphs and reports based upon the respondents in the filtered set of respondents. Golden Hills Software, Inc. announces the end-of-life and end-of-support of the SurveyGold version 7, version 6 and version 5 software applications. These versions are considered legacy versions as sales and maintenance of these versions ceased many years ago. This announcement does not apply to currently offered SurveyGold application software or SurveyGold subscription services. December 7, 2006: Last Day to Order The last day to order the SurveyGold 7 products was December 7, 2006. December 7, 2006: End of Software Maintenance Releases Golden Hills Software, Inc. no longer develops, repairs, maintains, or tests the version 7, version 6 or version 5 product software after this date. Software defects found in these versions are addressed by migrating to the current SurveyGold application. June 24, 2014: Last Date of Support The last date to receive service and support for the product. After this date, all support services for the product are unavailable, and the product becomes obsolete. We just added usability improvements and more flexibility in how graphs appear in reports and in the SurveyGold application. Button Bars in View Results and Analyze ResultsWe have introduced brand new button bars and enhanced existing button bars throughout the View Results and Analyze Results tabs. This makes it easy to discover and access SurveyGold application features that were formerly only accessible by right-clicking on a graph or report. Enhanced Graph PropertiesAlso, in response to feedback from SurveyGold users, we enhanced the graph properties sheet in View Results tab by adding a Data Values tab that provides more visual preferences for graphs:
The Publish Word and Publish Web actions in the Analyze Results tab respect the new View Results graph properties preferences so that graphs are published with the preferences that you set up via View Results. How To Acquire the UpdateTo acquire SurveyGold application updates:
"Poorly-designed survey instruments will yield less-than-reliable data. There. I said it. DIY platforms are springing up all over, allowing any Tom, Dick or Harry to throw a survey to the ether to collect data to inform their business decisions. What a thrill it is to collect this data for pennies per respondent! However, unless your questionnaire is designed well (which I’ll explain in a moment), the data you collect could be next to useless. Or worse, it could be just plain wrong." This interesting Quirk's article by Darrin Helsel of Vivisum Partners shows how to make sure your surveys are asking the right questions in the right ways. We just added improvements to the online survey form. Responses choices can now display an optional graphic image file of your choosing. The graphic image file is automatically displayed in your online survey form in its original size alongside the associated response choice. To specify the graphic image file:
Note: Although the graphic image appears in the question properties sheet as a thumbnail, it will appear in your online survey form in its actual size. You can preview the actual image by moving your mouse pointer over the thumbnail image in the question properties sheet. How To Acquire the UpdateTo acquire SurveyGold application updates:
A software update dialog appears and the process begins by downloading the software directly from the SurveyGold software update server. After the software update files are downloaded to your computer, the process automatically installs the software updates. Normally, this entire process only takes a moment. Your data is not affected in any way as a result of software updates. I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Mark Vandeneijnde of Zürich, Switzerland. Mark is the co-founder of the global assessment and coaching organization BEING At Full Potential, a fascinating company that specializes in assessing and unlocking human potential in organizations.
SurveyGold Provides an Effective and Efficient Quantitative Assessment Tool Mark uses SurveyGold to underpin a Human Potential Assessment Tool used by business leaders who want to deliver more value from their organizations. Mark uses the insights gathered and analyzed by SurveyGold to help business leaders better understand and act on the untapped human potential in their organizations. I asked Mark about the business problem he was solving using SurveyGold. He tells me, "We needed to develop a quantitative assessment tool that could accurately measure performance in this area and put the necessary data on the table to enable the right conversations. We also needed an effective way to distribute the survey and analyze the data afterwards. Without SurveyGold, the efficient delivery of our assessment tool would not have been possible. We are very satisfied with the SurveyGold solution. It is user-friendly, flexible, cost effective and the customer support is excellent. We feel very happy to have made this choice." Emphasizing the HEART in Business I also discovered that BEING At Full Potential acknowledges the importance of "HEART" in business. The following video is a summary of the research Mark has done recently. It serves to put some meat on this broad and fuzzy topic. Mark's hope is that it opens a conversation on how more "HEART" can concretely benefit your organization. I found the topic to be very insightful and interesting. The Heartbleed Bug has been a troublesome headline in the news recently. We want to assure you that all servers used by the SurveyGold survey solution are running OpenSSL version 1.0.1g, the most current version of OpenSSL. As a result, our servers are not vulnerable to the Heartbleed Bug which has garnered so much worldwide attention today. |
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