The 2006 Thoughts Media Reader Survey - Help Us Out, Win Prizes!

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.thoughtsmedia.com/2006survey.html

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm proud to present the 2006 Thoughts Media Reader Survey! Long-time readers will remember we used to do demographic polls one at a time, but we haven't done many of those lately. As such, our demographic information is sadly out of date. Why does that matter? In order to keep running these sites, we need to sell advertising. Advertisers like to know general demographic information about the type of people visiting a site before they'll buy ads on it. And so it's time for us to get some updated information!



The survey will take you about 5 minutes to complete. Why fill it out? To help us out, but most of all, to win prizes! Here's what's up for grab in a random drawing of everyone who completes the survey:

GRAND PRIZE: an HTC Blue Angel (aka PDA2K) Pocket PC Phone Edition
SECOND PRIZE: a Motorola MPx220

Other prizes:
• 14 x $50 Vaja gift certificates ($700 total in coupons)
• a MSN Direct Fossil SPOT Watch (FX3005)
• an iGo Juice 70 Mobile Power Kit
• a Memorex 512 MB USB Flash Drive
• 20 x Microlights, assorted mix of Pocket PC Thoughts, Smartphone Thoughts, and Digital Media Thoughts branded lights

That's 39 prizes worth a total of about $2300 USD! Now for the fine print: the survey will remain open until May 19th, two weeks from now, and winners (randomly drawn from all survey submissions) will be announced early the following week. There's a limit of one prize per person. As I state in the survey, the name and email address are only used for the prize drawing - the data will be destroyed after the prize drawing, and your email address will only be used if you win a prize. Your demographic information will not be tied to your name and email address in any way - all demographic information will be compiled anonymously. I don't share my email address lightly, and take matters of privacy very seriously, so rest assured your information will not be abused in any way.

Ready to start the survey? Go for it!

UPDATE: There have been some people who weren't able to take the survey for a variety of reasons. First, the survey is not Pocket PC or Smarpthone compatible - please do the survey using your desktop computer. I just didn't have the resources to make a Windows-Mobile compatible survey. Secondly, there were some HTML errors that resulted in some people getting a blank page and no survey. I believe I've fixed these errors, so if you were one of those people, please try again. Thank you for your patience - I wasn't expecting any of these problems. ;-)

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.thoughtsmedia.com/2006survey.html

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm proud to present the 2006 Thoughts Media Reader Survey! Long-time readers will remember we used to do demographic polls one at a time, but we haven't done many of those lately. As such, our demographic information is sadly out of date. Why does that matter? In order to keep running these sites, we need to sell advertising. Advertisers like to know general demographic information about the type of people visiting a site before they'll buy ads on it. And so it's time for us to get some updated information!



The survey will take you about 5 minutes to complete. Why fill it out? To help us out, but most of all, to win prizes! Here's what's up for grab in a random drawing of everyone who completes the survey:

GRAND PRIZE: an HTC Blue Angel (aka PDA2K) Pocket PC Phone Edition
SECOND PRIZE: a Motorola MPx220

Other prizes:
• 14 x $50 Vaja gift certificates ($700 total in coupons)
• a MSN Direct Fossil SPOT Watch (FX3005)
• an iGo Juice 70 Mobile Power Kit
• a Memorex 512 MB USB Flash Drive
• 20 x Microlights, assorted mix of Pocket PC Thoughts, Smartphone Thoughts, and Digital Media Thoughts branded lights

That's 39 prizes worth a total of about $2300 USD! Now for the fine print: the survey will remain open until May 19th, two weeks from now, and winners (randomly drawn from all survey submissions) will be announced early the following week. There's a limit of one prize per person. As I state in the survey, the name and email address are only used for the prize drawing - the data will be destroyed after the prize drawing, and your email address will only be used if you win a prize. Your demographic information will not be tied to your name and email address in any way - all demographic information will be compiled anonymously. I don't share my email address lightly, and take matters of privacy very seriously, so rest assured your information will not be abused in any way.

Ready to start the survey? Go for it!

UPDATE: There have been some people who weren't able to take the survey for a variety of reasons. First, the survey is not Pocket PC or Smarpthone compatible - please do the survey using your desktop computer. I just didn't have the resources to make a Windows-Mobile compatible survey. Secondly, there were some HTML errors that resulted in some people getting a blank page and no survey. I believe I've fixed these errors, so if you were one of those people, please try again. Thank you for your patience - I wasn't expecting any of these problems. ;-)

[Mike Temporale]

Wow! That's a lot of prizes. Between the survey and our Gigantic Giveaway, you guys have a great chance to win a lot of cool stuff. :mrgreen:

[surfer]

Mike and Jason just filled out the survey actually very interesting

But have you ever thought about starting up regional thoughts sites like PPC THOUGHTS SCANDINAVIA, Smartphone thoughts Scandinavia?

[Rocco Augusto]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

SECOND PRIZE: a Motorola MPx220

:lol:

[edgar]

Opti,

oooooo - second place. Shouldn't that be a consolation prize? After all, they could put their logo on the screen and it could be a great flashlight as well - I think this one was Jason's old unit, now in his Office Prize closet of tested and discarded devices

I'd take it as a spare phone though. Once I got the latest ROM on mine its actually solid - just old now.

Great survey guys and as always, great incentive to fill it out. You guys always give away great stuff! Opti and I just need to figure out how to hack into that random generator program and insert our numbers. 8)

-Edgar

[Rocco Augusto]

Originally Posted by Edgar

Opti and I just need to figure out how to hack into that random generator program and insert our numbers. 8)

-Edgar

shhhhhhhhhhhhh! don't tip them off :lol:

[Kris Kumar]

Originally Posted by Mike Temporale

Wow! That's a lot of prizes. Between the survey and our Gigantic Giveaway, you guys have a great chance to win a lot of cool stuff. :mrgreen:

You are right Mike, between the two contests, thats a lot of prizes. :drool:

I am wondering, since I haven't done any front page posts recently, am I considered as a reader or contributing editor. ;-) :drool:

[Mike Temporale]

Originally Posted by Kris Kumar

I am wondering, since I haven't done any front page posts recently, am I considered as a reader or contributing editor. ;-) :drool:

Don't you go and get some funny thoughts in your head mister. You're not allowed to go anywhere! :twak:

[Jason Dunn]

UPDATE: There have been some people who weren't able to take the survey for a variety of reasons. First, the survey is not Pocket PC or Smarpthone compatible - please do the survey using your desktop computer. I just didn't have the resources to make a Windows-Mobile compatible survey. Secondly, there were some HTML errors that resulted in some people getting a blank page and no survey. I believe I've fixed these errors, so if you were one of those people, please try again. Thank you for your patience - I wasn't expecting any of these problems. ;-)

[Jason Dunn]

The survey is now over, I have the responses, and now I have to randomly select the 39 winners, email them all, etc. It will take at least a week to get that all completed. Look for a post about the winners by this Friday or early next week.