Mark said:
> 1. As a user, there's nothing more frustrating than a registration
> barrier. I'll do anything to avoid it, particularly if
> registration doesn't
> seem necessary for the functioning of the website.
I agree, it's pointless deliberately annoying your visitors. You wouldn't dream of doing the same thing to visitors to a physical site. In any case won't requiring registration affect the ability of other sites to link to your content? And the ability of spiders to index your site?
> 2. There is evidence that many think this way - look at the
> popularity of bugmenot (www.bugmenot.com). Or the prevalence of
> obviously bogus user names (Mickey Mouse etc) in registration
> logs.
<shock>You mean Mickey Mouse _isn't_ _real_?</shock>
> 3. There's another way of harvesting user profiles - using compact
> online surveys such as Survey Monkey (www.surveymonkey.com).
> I know that overlong surveys don't work, but has anyone in the
> museum/culture sector had good
> results from short, straightforward surveys of this type?
Or if you don't want to pay, and are happy to use Excel for your analysis, there's this rather good freebie which makes it easy to set up questionnaires and email yourself the results as a text file:
<http://www.pentri.com/pentri/index.php?id=26>
Best wishes
Pete
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Peter M Gray
Museums Officer
www.eastlothian.gov.uk/museums
www.eastlothianmuseums.org
www.prestongrange.org
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