Dear AoIR Members, For my dissertation, I am investigating the relationship between rurality, the Internet, and social ties. If you have about 20 or so minutes, please feel free to take the pilot survey as part of my "expert panel" review and comment on the questionnaire*. This survey has been pilot tested several times already with lay volunteers. The "expert panel" pilot survey is open for testing until Friday, August 23 at midnight (CST) and requires the password, "aoir" (no quotation marks). Please click or copy into your browser the following link. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UnV_2flQcyHKMHgizAfGZ_2bwg_3d_3d Survey participants can elect to receive a summary of the results in late Fall2008. In addition, educators can receive a small, raw data set of their students' participations for teaching purposes only. Thank you. Robin AOIR Username: RymHubbard *Questionnaire is modeled on the Strength of Internet Ties survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project (2006) and the Social Capital Assessment Tool (SOCAT) by the World Bank (2004) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robin Y. Mabry Hubbard, MBA, EdS, ABD PhD Candidate - Rural Sociology [Community Informatics] Email: ryh352@mizzou.edu My Homepage: http://www.rrchubbard.org ~ Our Future arrived Yesterday! ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [My Philosophy? A Human Story of Contradictions]