Emerge Inc. Blog

Ed Skimin, Emerge President recently attended the SEED Conference which focused on taking control of your own work, seeking out methods to inspire new ideas, and adopting unconventional ideas about collaboration and business.

The conference held Monday, October 29th, at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, included lectures, networking, and time for discussion and interaction. Presenters at the conference were Jason Fried, Carlos Segura, Jim Coudal and Edward Lifson.

Jason Fried is the founder of 37signals, influential creators of web-based communication and collaboration tools Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack & Campfire and authors of the book Getting Real and the popular Signal vs. Noise weblog.

Carlos Segura is the founder of Segura, Inc. an internationally recognized visual communications company and creator of T.26 the web’s original digital type foundry as well as the 5″ retail brand and the Cartype weblog.

Jim Coudal is the founder of Coudal Partners, a design and advertising consultancy that has created numerous brands and products such as The Deck Advertising Network, Jewelboxing, Layer Tennis and Field Notes.

Edward Lifson is a Public Radio host, an architecture critic, and the Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. Lifson talked about the IIT Campus and Mies van der Rohe.

Emerge recently worked with the Avon Lake City Schools to add an online survey module to their website. The survey module enables them to create unlimited surveys to illicit feedback from the community, parents, teachers and students.

A password protected administration section enables them to create new surveys and view results from existing surveys. When creating a survey, the administrator can create an unlimited number of questions. Each question can be an 1) open text box, 2) multiple choice, select one, 3) multiple choice, select all that apply or 4) rate on a scale of 1-5.

The password protected results screen shows the number of people who responded to each question of the survey and the number and percentage of each response. The administrator also has the option to isolate a response and see results only from people who answered a certain way on that question. For example, if a question asked if the respondent was a student or teacher, the administrator could then view all results from just students or just teachers.

For more information on adding a survey module to your website and gaining valuable feedback from your stakeholders, please contact Emerge.