BM Survey for you to take
June 1, 2009
Please take a moment to fill out a new BM survey.
7 months ago, there was a BookMooch survey that lots of you responded to. The class that was doing the survey has sent me a lot of interesting info, and I’ll be posting the results in a blog entry soon.
The class and its professor/moocher (Karl Fast) has designed a followup survey. He wrote me to say:
| The goal of this new project is to collect useful information for improving how BookMooch encourages positive behavior and discourages negative behavior. Our research in the fall suggested the current system works, but some problem areas persist and the site could do more to encourage certain behaviors. |
BookMooch Lottery
June 1, 2009
The third annual BookMooch lottery is now over!
As in previous years (2007, 2008) half the points bet in the lottery will go to charity.
There’s a slightly different spin on the charity this year, namely:
1) you can indicate which charity you want to nominate for points
2) instead of winners being randomly picked from everyone, this system is more like a horse race, where you pick one of the 75 author names as your “bet”. One of the author names will be picked as the winner, then everyone who “bet” on that author name will be a winner and share in the total pool of points (with half the pool going to charity, of course)
Read more about the BookMooch lottery.
The 3rd BookMooch Lottery is now over! Here is what Mark, the admin who ran the Lottery, posted about the outcome:
| Jodi Picoult was randomly drawn from the list of Librarything’s most popular authors as listed on the 2009 Lottery page.
61 tickets were purchased with Jodi Picoult as the chosen author. 2704 points were donated from many hundreds of Bookmooch members, so each winning ticket had a value of 44 points, half of which will go to the Bookmooch charity each winning member chose. Congratulations to all 15 winners! Mary from Tipperary (IR) bet one point, so wins 22 points! Lizzie from Cambridge (UK) bet one point, so wins 22 points! Nicole from Pennsylvania (US) bet one point, so wins 22 points! Sdb from from Monaco (MC) bet one point, so wins 22 points! Betty from Rhode Island (US) bet two points, so wins 44 points! Michelle from London (UK) bet two points, so wins 44 points! Courtney from Tennessee (US) bet two points, so wins 44 points! Max from Massachusetts (US) bet three points, so wins 66 points! Tia from Colorado (US) bet five points, so wins 110 points! Amber from Pennsylvania (US) bet five points, so wins 110 points! Louise from Berkshire (UK) bet five points, so wins 110 points! Suzanne from California (US) bet five points, so wins 110 points! Toni from Florida (US) bet eight points, so wins 176 points! SR from Massachusetts (US) bet ten points, so wins 220 points! Sari from Illinois (US) bet ten points, so wins 220 points! Thanks to all who played! Mark W |
