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UC IT Blog Survey Results

2022-8-25

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Overview

Survey conducted bn 8/15-8/17/2022 - handed to UC Tech Conference in-person attendees via a QR code printed on a business card/flyer only (no email conducted).

  1. 43 completed/100 interviewed
  2. 10% of all 400 conference attendees completed it

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Where employed

Most responses:

  1. UCOP (19%)�
  2. Other (i.e. Vendors)(19%)

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  1. UCSD (13%)

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  1. UC Riverside (11%)

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How long in your field?

  1. 10+ years was majority
  2. 0 people new to their field
    1. (no students?)

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How long part of this UC Tech Community?

  • Equal distribution of new and long-term members of the community

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IT vs Tech-Adjacent

  • Roughly 30:70 Tech Adjacent:Tech

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Function

  • Majority Management, Communications/Marketing & Admin (80%)
  • Researchers 11%

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How often read the blog?

  • 80% regular readers, but many are not reading every issues
  • 20% new/not often

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Does the blog meet our goals for you?

  • Meet/exceed goals
    • Relevant IT news
    • Informative overall
  • Possible opportunities
    • Learning new skills
    • Meeting other colleagues

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Topics of interest

All similar, but best-practices in security and privacy ranked slightly higher

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Other topics of interest noted

  1. Upcoming events, success/failure stories, research related
  2. I want to know what's going on in all the other silos of excellence!
    1. Benchmarking with other UC
    2. How the UC system is working together
  3. Software development
  4. IT systems
  5. Enterprise architecture (Back-end), IaaS
  6. UX Design and Research, campus affinity

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Least used channels?

  1. Social Media
  2. Webinars

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Most used channels?

  1. Email (ranked first)
  2. UC Tech Slack
  3. Conferences
  4. Social media (ranked last)

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Which Social Media Channels do you use for your Work?

  1. Linkedin (clear winner)
  2. Twitter
  3. Instagram (surprising)

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How often would you like to receive the blog newsletter?

  1. Most indicated monthly
  2. Roughly equal portions for 1/week, every 2 weeks, every month.

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Current subscriber?

  • About 60% current subscribers
  • 40% non-subscribers (If 400 people attended, ~160 were not subscribers)

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Would you like to contribute?

  1. Nearly 40% would like to contribute

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Maintain results in aggregate only vs “concierge” approach

  • Nearly 50% prefer results are always in aggregate

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Comments

08/18/2022

98091735

Thanks for your great work and I look forward to continuing to contribute in the future!

08/16/2022

98078990

Thank you for your work on this great resource! Perhaps we can collaborate on some future efforts - I volunteer with UCLA’s BruinTech group (bruintech.ucla.edu) and UCUX affinity group