IASC Membership Survey

Dear IASC Member,

In order to encourage the exchange of knowledge and experience between our members, we have been working since the past year on our membership strategy. To make your membership of the IASC community as useful and enjoyable as possible we need you to provide us with feedback on your personal experience and expectations; Therefore we kindly request you to fill out this survey. Your answers are very valuable for the design of our new membership strategy and the future of the IASC.

The IASC Secretariat

1. Name (Optional)

3. Country:

4. Institution / organization name:

6. Are you currently a member of IASC?

Yes
No
I don't know

7. When did you first become a member? (yyyy)

Can't remember

8. Which were your incentives to become an IASC member?

9. If you have renewed your membership at least once after becoming a member, what were your reasons?

10. If you have not renewed your membership, what were your reasons?

The themes that are addressed within the IASC are not useful for my own work
It was too costly
I found the benefits too limited
NOT applicable
Other:

13. How highly do you value the following IASC services? For each item choose one option from the list

14. Please name the services (from question 13) that you are willing to pay extra for (which services do you value most?)

15. Do you read the Digest regularly?

Yes
No
I don't know

16. Have you read the International Journal of the Commons (IJC)?

Read regularly
Have read few articles
I don't know IJC

17. Are you planning to submit articles to the IJC?

Yes
No
I don't know

18. Are you a subscriber to our email list?

Yes
No
I don't know

19. Please rate the amount of e-mails you are getting from the IASC Secretariat:

They are not frequent enough
The current amount and frequency works fine
They are too many emails coming from the IASC list
Other:

20. Please qualify the information included in the e-mails you are getting from the IASC:

Pertinent and interesting most of the times
Pertinent and interesting sometimes
Not pertinent or interesting at all

21. How could we improve our e-mail list service?

22. Have you visited the IASC website?

Yes
No
I don't know

23. If yes, how often?

Rarely (once or twice)
From time to time
Regularly

24. Why do you use the website?

25. How could we improve our website?

26. IASC will be working to strengthen our communications this year. Please indicate the kind of information you would like to keep as part of the IASC information that you receive: For each item choose one option from the list

Job announcements following services that IASC might offer:

Very interested
Interested
Not interested
Don’t know

Conferences/Events

Very interested
Interested
Not interested
Don’t know

Calls for proposals

Very interested
Interested
Not interested
Don’t know

Funding opportunities

Very interested
Interested
Not interested
Don’t know

Publications

Very interested
Interested
Not interested
Don’t know

27. Please indicate if you are interested in the following services that IASC might offer: For each item choose one option from the list

The chance to publicize my own work

Very interested
Interested
Not interested
Don’t know

Networking

Very interested
Interested
Not interested
Don’t know

28. Which benefits or services do you think we can offer to attract new members to IASC?

29. Do you pass IASC information to others? For each item choose one option from the list

Publications

Never
Occasionally
Often

Announcements from the email list

Never
Occasionally
Often

Digital library resources

Never
Occasionally
Often

Networking with other members

Never
Occasionally
Often

Other Please specify which other at the blank space after the "other" option

Never
Occasionally
Often
Other:

30. Would you participate in IASC more actively by :

Sharing information (online, and offline)
Moderating discussion within IASC
Supporting and advising other members
Organizing events (trainings, online events, regional or topic meetings)
Manage regional of thematic networks with IASC
Ready to serve on IASC council or volunteer my time for other services the IASC might need support for
Other:

32. Do you use any of the following web 2.0 tools? For each item choose one option from the list

34. If IASC starts to use these tools to become a more interactive association, would you contribute?

Yes
No
I don't know

35. If yes, for what reason?

Meet and engage with other IASC members
Post comments, suggestions
Rate IASC services
Joint content related discussions
Contribute to a joint knowledge-base on specific themes
Manage or moderate discussions
Other:

36. Which other networks and email lists related to commons are you subscribed to?

37. This year we are also thinking to improve our interaction with and between members. To do this we are proposing to build our own platform or / and create presence on other platforms. If IASC starts to use these web 2.0 tools to build IASC subgroups of members, on other platforms such as facebook, wiserearth and others, would you contribute?

Yes
No
I don't know

38. Would you be interested in creating a separate group for your institution / organization / project at the own IASC platform we create?

Yes
No
I don't know

39. Do you have any additional ideas or suggestions? Thanks for your answers and your time, IASC Secretariat.