World, Writing, Wealth discussion

For those who joined after the survey was sent out in the evening of 4 January (Pacific time) and hence did not receive the group broadcast message, welcome to 2018!

In only 3 days, we've had 31 members take the survey. Join the rest and make your voice heard!

Here's the text of the original broadcast message:

In 2017, World, Writing, Wealth (WWW):

* Topped 1,500 members
* Ran 2 monthly group reads
* Added film to our discussion threads at the suggestion of a member
* From our first survey back in January 2017, implemented several of the suggestions and expanded on the areas that members enjoy (for example, more international and book discussions).

We have many exciting and beneficial activities planned for WWW, but we need your help in figuring out which ones would be the most interesting to the group.

This survey should only take about 5 minutes and will close at 11:59 PM PST on 21 January 2018. Your answers are completely anonymous.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FQMKZ6S

Please complete this short survey and help us make WWW your go-to group on Goodreads!

Ganbatte! Do your best in 2018!

Nik, Tara, Alex

Thank you for inviting me to be your friend.Sinsecerly Micielle Carter.

Welcome, Micielle!

You can also add your greeting to our introduction thread:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Thank you.

Less than 10 days to let your voice be heard!

This survey closes at 11:59 PM PST on 21 January 2018.

5 days to let your voice be heard!

This survey closes at 11:59 PM PST on 21 January 2018.

3 days to let your voice be heard (along with the 44 other members who have responded so far)!

This survey closes at 11:59 PM PST on 21 January 2018.

Less than 48 hours left to let your voice be heard!

This survey closes at 11:59 PM PST tomorrow, Sunday, 21 January 2018.

Thank you.I’ve taken the survey or thought I did. I’ll check again.

Checked and I have. Thank you.

Micielle wrote: "Checked and I have. Thank you."

Thanks, Micielle!

Less than 24 hours left to let your voice be heard!

This survey closes at 11:59 PM PST today, Sunday, 21 January 2018.

In the interest of transparency and to promote further discussion, the survey results are as follows.

The average for the first 3 questions, which are considered to comprise the overall member satisfaction rose somewhat in comparison to last year.

2018
78%
70%
63%
Average = 70.33%

2017
74%
67%
53%
Average = 64.67%

Note: Individual answers to Question 10 were not included in order to reduce the possibility of personal identification.

Q1 How much do you enjoy the group?
78%

Q2 How beneficial to you are the group social interactions and information?
70%

Q3 How likely are you to invite others to join the group?
63%

Q4 Please rank the following kinds of discussions that you would be likely to participate in? (1 is your highest preference.)



Q5 Please rank the discussion areas that you currently gain the most value from? (1 is your most valued discussion area.)



Q6 Have you published a story or plan to publish one this year?



Q7 Do you provide services for writers (paid or free)? (for example, editing, book blogging, marketing, cover design)



Q8 Since the beginning of the new year, have you posted 1 or more comments in this group? (Tip: Look for your name on the group members page.)



Q9 Why did you join this group?

Do you know how this compares to other groups?

No, I don't know of any other group that runs a member survey.

But if one equates frequent posting to a high level of member satisfaction, then according to some member statistics that I compiled on 14 select groups last year back in May (and several times before that), we did post more in 2-week period in comparison to larger groups. For example, at that time:

SciFi and Fantasy Book Club _ 17,161 members _ 412 posts
WWW ________________ 999 members_949 posts

However, I don't know what that comparison is now. (It's a few hours of work to use regexes to convert the daily digests from HTML into a CSV file and then import it into a spreadsheet and then run the formulas.)

Thanks for the info, Alex

I think some of us are very chatty on some threads and the post count can ramp up quite quickly.

It looks like topics on writing, publishing, books and films are most popular. Is that correct?

I love this group. I try to stay out of the political discussions but I'm always lurking :D.

Hi, Marie Silk :-)

Alex wrote: "In the interest of transparency and to promote further discussion, the survey results are as follows.

The average for the first 3 questions, which are considered to comprise the overall member sat..."

This is very interesting stuff, Alex.
It is certainly a successful group, so someone somewhere is doing something right!

Amen to that!