Help college student w/ 5 min theatre survey

Hello BWW members!
I am in desperate need of your help.

For my Senior Seminar, students are required to gather research on a "modern communications issue." Me being the theatre-geek that I am, decided to study how the Internet has impacted the theatrical industry, specifically Broadway.

My hypothesis is basically "because the Internet has helped bring theatre to audiences outside of typical "theatre hubs" there has been a positive impact on ticket sales." My research focuses on websites, like BWW, particularly the communal feautre, and how they allow people to connect with others who share the same interests on the other side of the country, which (in theory) would increase ticket sales.

Now, I just need you fine people to take my survey so I can get some quantitative research to figure out whether my hypothesis is legit or not.

The survey had to be split up, because survey-monkey would not let me make a survey longer than 10 questions without paying for it, (mine is 14). Most of the questions are fairly straightforward, "yes or no/ check all that apply" with a little bit of basic demographic information asked at the end.

I need at least 50 people to take the survey so please tell your friends! I'm going to be bumping the thread for the rest of the week, so please bear with me.

Thanks to everyone who helps me out, I really appreciate it!!

Let me know if you have any questions or if something's not working (which should not be the case, but I'm not going to get cocky)

Theatre and the Internet Survey Part 1:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=cTv5EEmX9gmM6SLnSZgiWA_3d_3d

Theatre and the Internet Survey Part 2:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=CkaOSBDiPQvsQpvOhR1lxQ_3d_3d

Updated On: 3/30/09 at 07:25 PM

Just filled it out! What an interesting topic, and I completely agree with you. You should post the results of the survey, it'd be interesting! Good luck!

Thanks guys, you are all kinds of awesome!!

And yes, I will definitely post the results!

Done! Good luck!

Done and good luck.

I'm going to play devil's advocate and just mention that you need to get people that you DON'T know to be online regulars to answer as well.....or your info will be terribly one sided!

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Thanks guys, I can't believe I'm almost to 50 people already!!

Dramamama: Thanks for the tip; I've got my sample of non-message board users lined up to take the survey tomorrow :)

Make sure you indicate that this sample is neither random nor unbiased- it is a voluntary response survey with no attempt at randomization. You should recognize this but proceed anyway, and you should be fine. If you don't recognize it, you're going to run into credibility problems.

Done :)

Done! Glad to be of help. Let us know what you discover.

Stopsbyitself,

When I tried to access the survey, I received the following message:

"This survey is currently closed. Please contact the author of this survey for further assistance."

I'll take it when it's back up.

Updated On: 3/30/09 at 09:15 PM

I took it earlier, and totally forgot to say so. Sorry.

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Just finished both- I'd love to know the responses as well. Good luck!

Ah! sorry about that, I kind of rushed through the remake of the quizzes.

It's all fixed now though.