LTER Web Site/Communications Survey
A working group of the information management committee and the communications committee are reviewing and refreshing the guidelines for LTER web sites. The survey below is intended to help the committee understand the current practices and communications priorities across the Network. We are distributing the survey to both Site PI's and site information managers. Some questions are straightforward, but some will require discussion by the site's leadership team.

Please review the survey together (a printout of the questions is included with the email and linked here) and designate one person to fill in the survey.
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1. LTER Site ID (3 letter code): *
2. Survey contact:
Please enter the name and contact information of the person filling out the survey.
3. Primary communications contact:
This role may be filled by a different person at different sites. It should be someone who knows what's happening at a site and thinks about what's valuable to communicate. It may be a PI, site administrator, outreach manager, or IM. This is not a defined role or position -- just a guide as to who might be most involved in thinking about communications at your site.
4. Primary web site contact:
Please enter the name and contact information of the person who manages your web site.
5. What is your website URL?
6. Do you use a Content Management System (CMS)?
Clear selection
7. Are you monitoring website traffic? If yes, using what service or application?
8. Average number of unique monthly website visitors for 2016?
9. Please share the URLs of your three most highly trafficked pages:
10. Do you host an image gallery? If so, what services or CMS modules do you use? Please include a link to your gallery.
11. What software or service do you use to maintain bibliographic data for your LTER site?
Clear selection
12. What software or service do you use to display bibliographic data on your web site?
Clear selection
13. What method (or methods) does your site use to generate an online data catalog?
14. What method (or methods) does your site use to search an online data catalog?
15. Priority audiences. *
Please rank the importance of the following web site audiences for your LTER site. While all of these audiences are important, you have certainly made choices  (about language, placement of information, depth of information) that are designed to appeal more strongly to one or a few audiences.  Please think about the communications objectives of the LTER site and consult with the PI/site management team when answering this question.
1. Highest Priority
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10. Lowest Priority
National policy makers
Media
LTER Scientists
Other
Non-LTER Scientists
University Students
Local or regional policymakers
K-12 Educators and Students
Community Groups/NGO's
University administrators
16. Messengers
Communications research indicates that a message is most likely to be heard and considered when the messenger is perceived to be both warm and competent. In practice, that often means that the messenger is similar to (and therefore trusted by) the intended audience. Can you identify individuals associated with the your LTER site who have above average potential to connect with the audiences that your LTER site considers to be high priority? If yes, who? Do they have strong media or presentation skills?
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