A basic research design is laid out here in a form of a task list. Comment and change it directly with your ideas. If in doubt, post questions to start a discussion.

• Leave the questionnaire page open for at least a month for members to improve the instrument.
• Reach an agreement on the final version of the questionnaire.
• Try to include a large number of health blogs in the directory.
• Publish the survey online on this website using the Lime Survey script.
• Invite bloggers whose blogs are in the directory to participate in the survey.
• Leave the survey open for at least a month.
• Close the survey and export the gathered data.
• Analyze the data in one of the statistical packages like SPSS or Statistica.
• Write a detailed report about the results.

To provide your view, start writing below a question, just be sure to write down your username at the end.

Should we send only one invitation or several during the period the survey is open?

Should we only send invitations to bloggers in the directory?

Should we call bloggers to post invitations on their blogs?