{"id":245,"date":"2015-02-02T17:49:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T22:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2015-02-02T17:49:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T22:49:17","slug":"snowball-recruiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/snowball-recruiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowball Recruiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Word:\u00a0<\/strong>Snowball recruiting<\/p>\n<p><strong>Definition:\u00a0<\/strong>A recruitment method where researchers ask existing\u00a0subjects\u00a0or people they know to spread the word and help generate\u00a0participation from potential future subjects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts:\u00a0<\/strong>If each\u00a0existing subject helps recruit one more participant, you can see how quickly the recruitment can, well, snowball! So why can't you do it yourself? Snowball recruiting can be extremely useful\u00a0when research targets a very niche demographic or extremely specific community of users. It is also a great method to find participants\u00a0that fall\u00a0outside of your typical\u00a0geographical area.<\/p>\n<p>Researcher, Dana Chisnell did a wonderful interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uie.com\/brainsparks\/2013\/12\/12\/dana-chisnell-gaining-design-insights-from-your-research-recruiting-process\/\">UIE <\/a>where she\u00a0discusses recruiting users with disabilities and how she utilizes snowball recruiting. It's a great read (or listen if you prefer the podcast!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong>\u00a0In what types of situations have you used snowball recruiting? Do you see any\u00a0pit-falls\u00a0in recruiting this way?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word:\u00a0Snowball recruiting Definition:\u00a0A recruitment method where researchers ask existing\u00a0subjects\u00a0or people they know to spread the word and help generate\u00a0participation from potential future subjects. Thoughts:\u00a0If each\u00a0existing subject helps recruit one more participant, you can see how quickly the recruitment can, well, snowball! So why can&#8217;t you do it yourself? Snowball recruiting can be extremely useful\u00a0when research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[78,76,77,8,9],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-recruitment","tag-snowball-recruiting","tag-snowball-sampling","tag-user-experience","tag-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}