Text can’t replace the human voice. Not really. That’s one of the lessons a lot of people have had to learn the past six months while working from home. This is true for office work—but it’s also true for NGO surveys and any kind of social intervention. Two ways to...
Recently, a program manager reached out to us about surveying members of a rather remote community. Usually, such a survey would mean she or one of her colleagues would ride a boat for several hours—one way—followed by the giving of gifts and finally the survey. This...
This is an exciting time for communicating with beneficiaries around the world. As more and more messaging apps are ready for integration we can reach more people and in better ways. Surveys in particular benefit from this: you can make surveys more powerful, cheaper...
Uncompleted surveys are a huge waste of money and the better your completion rate is the cheaper your project is going to be. The key is to manage the attention of survey participants, and it’s not as hard as it sounds. In this blog post I want to share a few insights...
In the last 8 years, engageSPARK has worked with hundreds, if not thousands, of organizations in their IVR (interactive voice response) campaigns, and we’ve seen a lot of benefits to using this mode. Some advantages include (1) driving more urgency for a...
Data is of utmost importance in facilitating sound decision-making and resource allocation, especially during a time of crisis such as COVID-19. But with social distancing measures, researchers are finding it hard to collect data in areas where internet and...
We just made SMS and IVR Surveys easier and more powerful with these two new features: You now may update contact attributes (custom fields[1]) based on your contacts’ responses to SMS questions and IVR questions. You are able to set conditions in SMS surveys...
A few weeks ago, our CEO wrote a letter offering significant discounts for campaigns related to COVID-19. Here’s a snippet: As you may know, engageSPARK is a social enterprise: the reason we exist is to help people. We want to do our part to help with the...
Strict home quarantine measures and community-wide lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic brought everyone online… or did it really? In a 2016 report, Internet Live Stats shows that internet access is not as widespread as we think it is. In the US, for example,...
Amid these trying times, technology might just be the answer to #flattenthecurve of COVID-19 across the globe. What does “flattening the curve” mean? As of writing, there are 199,322 cases worldwide with 7,994 deaths and 82,759 recovered. This number...
