QCO Questionnaire




1. What is your gender?

Male           Female         Don’t want to say



2. What is your age?

0-16      17-22        23-28        29-35     36-41       42-47      48+          Don’t want to say



3. Which fundraising method would you think that is the best (Tick only one)



• Band souvenir sale

• House goods sale (e.g. coffee, tea with wide range of choice)

• Music marathon (playing as long as you can)

• “Greener” fundraising (reselling the plants to make the profit)

• Higher ticket prices



4. Being a charity would reduce overall costs for QCO to work. Would you be able to support us to apply for the status?

Yes                     No



5. What ticket price would you suggest to be?

Leave as it is       £3             £5                     £8                   £10                 £12              £15





6. Would you be interested in family tickets?

Yesn                 No





7. Would you be interested in particular subscriptions to premium services?

Yes                   No



8. What do you recommend as the best way to communicate between consumers?

•Website

•Publication letters

•Fliers

•Emails



9. How much time would you give to prepare fundraising?
1 day over a week     1 day over a month  2 days over a week    2 days over a month


10. How would rate the orchestra publicity?



I don’t know        1     2      3            4     5


11. When do you think that is the best time to start the project?

Templates

Pros:
- Keeps consistent layout which is important for the image of a company
- Individual user doesn’t have to start his blog from the scratch
Cons:
- It’s quite restricted as you can’t really edit anything.


Archives

Pros:
- You can access older posts on your blog if you require older information
- Possibility of tracking the actual trends depending on the news
Cons:
- Large archive may make the navigation unfriendly


Followers

Pros:
- Keep track of the interest of your blog
- Interact with other people interested in same topic
Cons:
- User may receive information that he doesn’t need/want to read which is close to spamming.

Dates

Pros:
- These are important as you know when the certain event happened
- Provides helpful information for creating more user friendly navigation through older content.
- Gives opportunity to check how valid the blog is (how often is it updated)
Cons:
- Nothing



Comments

Pros:
- Visitors may leave some comments which give you immediate feedback about post
- May provide useful information which you can include/use for your blog
Cons:
- Some visitors may spam or abuse comments that decrease general image of your blog

Posts

Pros:
- That’s the basic information provided on the blog. Usually short written piece of text with one small image attached to it.
- Keeping on posting good articles may increase overall popularity of your blog
Cons:
- Nothing

Editing

Pros:
- There are numerous ways of editing your blog. You can edit theme, dashboard and posts.
- Other users can’t edit your blog so they won’t be able to demolish it.
Cons:
- Nothing

Gadgets

Pros:
- Some of the gadgets may be useful for your blog
- Good use of gadgets may be attract more people to your blog
Cons:
- Too many gadgets or bad positioning of them may be annoying for visitors

Images

Pros:
- Increases potential of the website
- They’re vital to make blog attractive
Cons:
- Some people may find them distractive
- Bad use of images may work opposite
Personal Profile

Pros:
- Visitors may contact you through email
- People may look at your other blogs and sites you follow
Cons:
- You might get spammed over the email

Adverts (potential for earning money)

Pros:
- It rises your profit
Cons:
- Most of them are annoying and persistent

News

Pros:
- They’re crucial for your blog
- The more updates on news, more visitors will come.
Cons:
- Too many news or news written in a bad way may cause visitors to lose interest in that blog.

Send Messages

Pros:
- You can communicate with people through blog message system
Cons:
- Some messages may be irrelevant or spam

Online Diary

Pros:
- Written by skilled person may be interesting to see
- It’s good to share experience with others.
Cons:
- You need to do some activities to get material for it.

Ability to Set Permissions

Pros:
- You can set permission for someone to help you with managing the blog.
- You can set permission for other blog authors so they can help u modify them.
Cons:
- You must trust the people you give permission to.

Add/contribute to Polls

Pros:
- Polls may give you idea what other users think.
- May help you with judgment.
Cons:
- Nothing,

Flexibility of the Tool

Pros:
- Most of the tools are flexible
- There’s many features that you can add
- Gadgets and the layout are fairly flexible as you can move them around
Cons:
- Editing objects is limited to certain extent


Relative informality of the language used etc.

- Depending on the audience you may change the way you write.

Explain overall tools of the blog.

In overall blog is a very good tool to share your own ideas or news with other people. You can interact with other blog authors and exchange opinion. You have to remember to stick with the blog purpose otherwise you might lose followers. Keeping it updated helps to get people interested. Simple online diary with your personal experience may attract more people to keep them updated. You can also get your feedback based on it.

Group 1

Software knowledge
Category: Attribute
This could include knowledge of:
Office Work software
Job specific software such as:
Graphic software
Programming software
And is important to an employer because you need to use right software for your work and being able to use it. You need also take advantage of the software so you can work efficiently using newest available technology. Employer doesn’t have to train you from the scratch.

Team working
Category: Skill
Being a team player is important to an employer because you need that skill to work in the group. That means being able to overcome their weaknesses and take advantage of their strengths to work on the target.

Leadership skills
Category: Skill
Leadership skills are important because while working in the group there is a certain job for everyone. Every group should have one leader. Leader manage the group and helps them to achieve the target.


Group 2

Knowledge of the Data Protection Act 1984
Category: Attribute
This is important to employers because this law says about the respect to the other’s work. You cannot modify/delete or copy other’s work in any case without their permission.


Verbal and numeric skills
Category: Skill
Verbal and numeric skills are important to an employer because it’s important to be able to communicate and calculate, especially in IT jobs. Also you need to speak clearly otherwise you won’t be able to communicate.

Being competitive
Category: Attitude
This involves knowledge of rival firms and is important because it’s an attitude that allows people to achieve better results than the others. It’s a way to motivate people in order to work hard on the targets.


Group 3

Planning
Category: Skill
Planning skills are therefore important because it helps to achieve the target by gathering information from certain source. It also prevents mistakes from being made during work on achieving the goal. This item needs a bit of work as planning skills are valued because they enable deadlines to be set and met together with contingency plans to be developed. However, they are not guaranteed to prevent mistakes. Good planning can help to reduce the incidence of mistakes.


Dependable/Reliable
Category: attitude
It is very important that an employer feels that they can depend on a staff member and their contribution to the organisation because it keeps people motivated/positive when bad times come for the company as employers can be sure that employees are working hard in order to achieve the target.

Becoming a ‘greener’ organisation
Category: attitude
The company policy may involve car sharing, facilities for gym membership and recycling. Being greener company helps to save enviroment from increasing temperature of global warming by 2°C. This is important because there are ways to save energy/environment and retrieve money for it. Company can get paid by government for recycling bin which brings profit. They should also use originally grown products.

Group 4

Time management
Category: skill
Being able to draw up a schedule of tasks and prioritise events is important because it helps to organize things easily and work efficiently. Priority of each task is different, high priority tasks should be finished quicker than the rest so the person can actually finish the work by deadline.

Problem-solving
Category: skill
Being able to work through and demonstrate good, problem-solving techniques will ensure that problems are recognised early. This is important because you need to keep your work at its best. It can be achieved by indentifying common mistakes, double checking work you hand-in and spell check. Rethinking the problem through might help to solve it in the best way.

Promoting an organisational brand or image
Category: Attitude
Using correct company literature and letterheads, complying with the company dress code ensures that company will attract new customers and make them sure that company has good services/products. It also helps the brand increase their profits because customers judge if the service or product is good. Once they see something that grabs their interest, to try it out they can pay extra money for it. Being competitve with other brands is also necessery as it makes staff working harder to develop new innovations and technologies that have an impact on consumers lives. If people enjoy working with certain a company they can promote its services so products will gain a good position on the market and they can be sure of their position.