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User survey
This survey is designed to capture your interests and motivations around knowledge sharing, to help us co-design the PEP website.
In what capacity are you answering the survey?
Farmer
Advisor
Academic / Student
Researcher
Knowledge Exchange Professional
Employed by a commercial company
Journalist
Agri-tech Developers
Policy & Research funder
Member of the Public
Other…
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Do you use any existing online farming / knowledge sharing communities? (tick all that apply)
The Farming Forum
Farmers Weekly / Faming Online / Farmers Guardian / Farming UK / NFU etc
AHDB website
Farming Connect
Innovative Farmers
The National LIbrary for Agri-food (Food & Farming Futures)
Land Management 2.0
Agricology
Regen Agri
BASE UK
LEAF website - Countryside Classroom
Twitter
KTN
BASIS
Other…
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What do you find good about the knowledge sources/communities you use? (Tick all that apply)
Quality of the information
Knowledge of the other people in the community
Sharing and discovering ideas
Finding out about new things
Ability to ask questions & add experience
Trusted information
Timely & relevant info
Regular newsletters summarising new content
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What do you find less good or lacking from the knowledge sources/ communities you use? (Tick all that apply)
Unverified information - can I trust it?
Information is commercially biased
Too many adverts
Disconnected from other knowledge sources
No opportunity to respond with own experience
Argumentative discussions
Anonymous nature of some users
Temporary nature - difficult to find again if you want to go back to it
Difficult to find answers relevant to my situation
Not easy to get to the source material or other related info to find out more
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Which areas of farm knowledge sharing would you like to see Farm PEP cater for? (Tick all that apply)
Enabling people to ask questions and find relevant, practical & trusted answers
Sharing experiences and gaining feedback
Developing new ideas and being part of the knowledge generation & sharing process
Forming and joining partnerships and collaborations to develop & test ideas
Collation, distillation and sharing of “knowledge nuggets” from research
Being able to contact people and organisations involved in interesting work
Disseminating outputs from research projects to a wide audience
Identifying which topics / areas of research have uncertainty / which questions are important and require more work
Accessing information on a given Topic that has been distilled by experts
Finding others views, results & experiences on a given Topic to draw my own conclusions
Be able to rate the information that is shared, and to see how others rate that information
Being able to access a full repository of linked information and source material
Regular newsletter updates on content relevant to you
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Which of the following would encourage you to join and use Farm PEP? (Tick all that apply)
Access to distilled knowledge i.e. simple write-ups of topics
Direct contact with farming experts / advisors & peers
Access to community events, which are only available to members
Ability to promote projects, organisations, products / services
Ability to join and form collaborations and projects
Ability to access funding
Access to product or practice reviews
Ability to share your experiences
Getting recognition for your contributions
Regular Newsletter of relevant info
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Which of the following would you contribute to Farm PEP? (Tick all that apply)
Questions
Answers and comments on other people’s questions
Experiences of practices or products
Ideas / suggestions for areas of research
Project information / research results
News
Information on farming practices / product / services
Reviews of farming products / practices / services
Ratings of content on Farm-PEP
Applications for funding
Other…
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What features would be most important to you from the Farm-PEP website (Tick up to five))
Ease of registering / logging in
Free to register
Simple User Interface
Easy to use on mobiles
An intuitive User Experience
Clean design / layout
Ability to earn ‘reputation’ from your contributions
Ease of posting / commenting
Ability to input into the direction / development of the site
Ability to promote products / services
Ability to review other people’s contributions
Ability to apply for funding
Limited advertising
Regular Newsletter of relevant info
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Farm PEP is under continuing development. If you would like to be kept updated and to be part of the co-creation process please add your details below.
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