by Murat Knecht | Aug 24, 2020 | Disaster Relief, ICT, Technology, Voice
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...
by Murat Knecht | Aug 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Paola Ceriola | Jun 15, 2020 | Design, Social Enterprise, Technology
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...
by Paola Ceriola | Apr 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Paola Ceriola | Apr 28, 2020 | Announcements, Mobile phones, Social Enterprise, Technology, Voice
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...
by Paola Ceriola | Apr 9, 2020 | Open
https://youtu.be/F425dzsyOHg 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...
by Paola Ceriola | Mar 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
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,...
by Paola Ceriola | Mar 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Avner Mizrahi | Mar 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
Update: Learn How organizations are using engageSPARK to fight COVID-19 (Coronavirus) 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 COVID-19 (Coronavirus) response. Communication is...
by Murat Knecht | Mar 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
As the COVID-19 Coronavirus disease continues to affect us, it’s important to remind ourselves what we can do for prevention and in case we get sick. To help you with this, we assembled the WHO (World Health Organization) advice for the public about COVID-19...
