The Web Refresh Advisory Task Force provided some excellent suggestions at last week's meeting regarding the survey. Those suggestions have been incorporated into the survey, and we are finishing up the paperwork and approval necessary to issue the survey.

Some of the new questions on the survey relate to how web site visitors prefer to receive information from the University, as well as the frequency of use of Web 2.0 technologies.

For those unfamiliar with the term Web 2.0, it refers to the "read-write web": that is, enabling users to personalize web content more easily and quickly than ever before. Examples of Web 2.0 technologies include wikis, blogs, and social networking web sites.

As adoption of these technologies increases by members of the CSUCI community, it makes sense that the University examine how they can be used to improve communication. The Web Site Use Survey should provide some useful preliminary insights.