2007 agenda - celebrating 40 robust years

schedule of events

Users' Conference speakers

download the day-by-day agenda (pdf)

2007 Advanced Training Agenda

At $150/day these sessions are designed to keep your skills sharp and up-to-date without more costly on-site trainings. The topics for these sessions are based on the most frequent requests for support.

Attendees are encouraged to bring laptop computers to participate for the study hall sessions. CfMC technologists will assist you in building your surveys and tables.

Tuesday, March 13 sessions

Morning Session (8am - noon): Mentor Training - Processing the Data
instructors: Kay Leaf and Patti Henshaw

Using Mentor to handle data files (inputting and outputting delimited data files).

Afternoon Session (1pm - 5pm): Real-time reporting with Collected Data
instructors: Mike Blair and Sue Dougherty

This session will cover the following reporting options in detail:

• Log reports: current and new
• Quota reports
• Custom reports
• Posting Study reports on the Web
• On-demand reports

Wednesday, March 14 sessions

Morning Session (8am - noon): Optimizing your webSurvent 7.7 Programming
instructors: Don Wasylyk and Daniele Pizzocchero

If you're new to webSurvent or haven't yet integrated our new 7.7 features in your shop, allow us to show you how they work with hands-on examples.

This session includes building question libraries with !HTML blocks, creating skins for use in Webutil, manipulating templates with HTML defines, replacing deprecated HTML tags with inline styles and cascading style sheets for quicker formatting.

A closing Q&A will help tackle your own web programming bottlenecks. If you have suggestions for us to cover during this session, please e-mail support.

Afternoon Session (1pm - 5pm): Advanced Survent Topics
instructors: Denise D'Andrea and Jim Ratto

• Data recovery and troubleshooting problems
• Everything you wanted to know about multi-lingual studies
• Call questionnaires — how and why
• How to best use >Repeats, &Files, and >Defines

 

2007 Users' Conference sessions

The CfMC Users' Conference is where we present our latest developments in survey research software and services. Attending the conference gives you a first-hand look at what we're doing to meet your needs.

This year's conference will present the latest developments in CfMC reporting, management, and data collection software available today. We'll also give our users a peek into where we are spending our development resources this year.

Here's a peek at the breakout sessions of 2007. For more in-depth information, review our full session details page.

• CfMC Survey Hosting: the You-Program-We-Host solution, a CfMC Transitions service
• Introducing webSuper: browser-based webCATI management tool
• Introducing version 8.1: Web-based CATI reporting and data collection in multiple modes
• Using CSS and JavaScript with webSurvent
• 8.1 Survent Features: What's new with Survent?
• An Updated webPM: see what new features have been added to webPM
• Mentor Tips & Tricks: featuring data manipulation and using external data sources
• Tips for CATI: sample management
• Catch Me If You Can! (How to Keep Cheaters Out of Your Next Online Survey)
• CATI Operations Reporting: quota and production reports (webCATI or standard Survent)
• webCATI Case Study: Flash Eurobarometer, the largest opinion research study supported by webCATI. Guest Speaker: Peter Husztik, Gallup-Hungary

For more information on the breakout sessions, check out the session details page.

the Corkscrew sessions

Give us a piece of your mind - but only a piece, please.

On the Thursday afternoon of the Users' Conference, users convene in a private meeting to highlight and prioritize their concerns and wishes for CfMC software development and client services.

On the Friday of the conference, CfMC's president presents the “Corkscrew Response”, addressing each of the points raised by the users .

The CfMC Corkscrew meeting is unique among software companies and is valuable to all involved in the process.

the annual CfMC Developers’ Contest

The Developers’ Contest showcases the most clever or effective use of CfMC products. Sharpen your skills and gather your wits. All users are invited to submit a working application using one or more CfMC products.

about the entries

The entry can be directly related to survey research or data analysis - or not! The entry should simply demonstrate a clever or productive use of the software. Our goal is to give new users a glimpse of the power and flexibility of CfMC’s products.

Sufficient documentation explaining how your entry works must be included.

Corkscrew entries must be received by March 1st. Please send Developers contest entries via e-mail to support.

Looking for inspiration? A few of last year's entries have been posted to Spec-Blog.