How ThemeSeekr Works
Discover how ThemeSeekr can work for you
Use ThemeSeekr with Surveys, Customer Comments or any other form of feedback from the people that matter to you. ThemeSeekr is a perfect to tool to use for Public Engagement projects large or small.
1. Collect
Collect responses from your community, clients, users or customers. Collect responses on your own web site, in person or via email. Import responses from a completed survey.
2. Categorize
As a group, discover themes in your responses. Working together, read the responses to assign themes and gain insight into the thoughts and ideas of the people that matter to you.
3. Analyze
Using interactive tools gain understanding. Drill down to discover detail. Share graphs and reports with others.
A group of users exploring survey results in ThemeSeekr.
Start Using ThemeSeekr on Your Project
1. Collect
collect your responses
You can collection your responses in any number of ways.
existing survey responses
Import your existing survey responses directly into ThemeSeekr from an Excel spreadsheet or a CSV file using an easy to use import tool. You can have your responses imported in a matter of minutes. If your data is in another format, no problem, we can import the responses for you.
email your questions
Once you decide which questions you would like to ask, you can design an email questionnaire to send. You choose whichever recipients you would like. You can import your contacts from most online email services like Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail. Your respondents will answer the email and the responses will automatically be routed directly to ThemeSeekr.
collect response on your own web site
You can build a comment form directly into your own site. Use ThemeSeekr to build the comment box and embed it directly into your web site. Your visitors can leave comments and they will be sent directly to ThemeSeekr. You will be able to see the responses as they are collected and begin to analyze them with your group immediately.
2. Categorize
categorize the responses
Once the responses have been collected, or while they are in the process of being collected you may begin to categorize them.
choose your list of themes
First you must decide which themes you would like to use to categorize the responses. Using a built in tool in ThemeSeekr just for this purpose you read a random sample of responses and quickly create your list of themes.
assign your themes
Once the list of themes has been created, you assign each response any number of themes. Any number of people can help to assign themes to responses. Every single one of the responses will be read by a someone. Everyone who takes part in the process will have the opportunity to read some of the responses and gain insight. The respondents will provide more useful information knowing that someone will take the time do seriously consider their input.
everyone contributes
The more individuals who take part in the process the better. Everyone gains insight by reading a few comments. ThemeSeekr has safeguard in place to ensure that no single person can bias the results.
3. Analyze
analyze the results
Once the themes have been assigned, the responses can be analyzed.
theme visualization
Use visualization tools in ThemeSeekr to view the content of all of your responses at a glance.
segmentation
You can compare the distribution of themes amongst different segments of your respondents. Easily see if one group differs substantially from another, and in what ways. Your expectations will probably be met, but you will also be surprised.
good ideas for free
ThemeSeekr makes it easy to find the diamonds in the rough. Mark responses that contain great ideas and unique insights to share with your group or project team.
create conversation
If you like, you may publish the responses to share with the community and invite further comment. Maintain exactly the level of transparency you would like. Keep everything completely confidential or entirely transparent.