Features |
Benefits |
Easy To Use: |
Minimal learning curve—fast progress toward mastery of all EthnoNotes system power |
Cost-Effective: |
Nothing to buy, install, or maintain—your browser and Internet access is all you need |
Team-Oriented |
Seamless collaboration—all data and system functionality are available to all team members in real time |
EthnoNotes Security Center |
Project administrators have comprehensive and dynamic control over team member access and system privileges |
Dynamic Code Tree |
Your hierarchical code system is easy to create and includes integrated scaling options
and a continuous and dynamic ability to modify the code system and application |
Easy Excerpting |
Coding and scaling excerpted text is simple and the Excerpt Manager provides for
seamless flow between excerpts and their source context |
Data Center |
Quickly analyze your coded excerpt text with powerful menu-driven filtering, sorting, tabulation, and
charting features—ready to export in your choice of format |
Training Center |
Complete support for training team members to code and rate excerpts—set
the standard, then test and evaluate your trainees |
Data Security |
Complete data security with password protection, industry standard encryption and data back-up |
Right from the start, you'll find EthnoNotes to be easy, logical, attractive, and supportive.
If you have a browser, it's very likely your computer already has absolutely everything you
need to unleash its power. Working with EthnoNotes will come as naturally as navigating the
typical Web site, but this time the information is yours! EthnoNotes is intuitive and
inviting, encouraging you to make full use of its cutting-edge features. The learning process is
easy and intuitive, and you'll soon be fully immersed in doing the actual work EthnoNotes is
there to help you do. To further support you, EthnoNotes includes a comprehensive user guide to
assist you with all system tasks at hand as well as intelligent reminders to make sure you use
every feature to its fullest. Answers to FAQs and additional support can be found in the EthnoNotes Help Center.
Because EthnoNotes is an entirely web-based tool, there'll never be anything to install and you'll
never need to upgrade to have the latest features EthnoNotes has to offer. Likewise, your data
remains at all times secure and safely mirrored, backed-up, and protected according to the highest industry standards.
You'll never worry about computer theft, disk failure, memory loss, file corruption, or any of the other
problems that can plague your own computer and result in the loss of your valuable work.
For one low monthly fee, create an
EthnoNotes account for yourself, get your project set up, and arrange for any number of users to access your data.
At the conclusion of a project, you select how to download your data to your own computer for final storage.
EthnoNotes will archive your data for two years thereafter at no additional cost.
While the individual user won't miss out on anything the system has to offer, EthnoNotes was
designed from the ground up to meet the needs of multi-member project teams. Your project data
and system features are available to all of your authorized team users-simultaneously and dynamically.
Regardless of where your team members work or travel, the only thing they need to fully participate
in your project is access to the Internet, a browser, and appropriate passwords that the project administrator provides and controls.
The Security Center provides your designated project administrator with a granular
level of control over every aspect of each team member's privileges. You can readily create
user groups to quickly control which project tasks can be viewed, explored, and modified by any
team member, and the work of each can be isolated and monitored.
The EthnoNotes code-tree is incredibly flexible. Newly-created codes can expand the system
horizontally or vertically, code definition and exemplar information can be accessed with a
click of the mouse, and you own rating, ranking, and/or weighting systems can be defined and
attached with ease. The code-tree is also fully dynamic in its functionality. At any time
you can modify the tree by simply dragging and dropping a particular code from one branch of
the tree to another and all the work you've done up to that point with that code follows it!
EthnoNotes will also save earlier coding, so you retain a history of your work.
Easy excerpting (i.e., marking a section of text from an interview, notes, focus group, or other source document)
is at the heart of EthnoNotes. Once marked, excerpts can be titled, described in a memo, and assigned any
number of codes (and a rating based on each code's associated scaling). You can move seamlessly between
your source documents and the excerpt manager, and you can imaginatively explore your excerpting and coding
through a variety of color-coded options available in the document browser. For example, excerpts on a
topic (fathering, reading to a child, attitudes about a product, a health belief) throughout an interview or
fieldnotes are marked and can then be coded and viewed separately or in combination with other specified excerpts.
If the Excerpt Manager is the heart of EthnoNotes, the Data Center is its brain.
The EthnoNotes Data Center enables you to imaginatively and efficiently examine how your codes
have been applied to your project documents and excerpts using our unique report generator.
Like what you see? Prepare and output results to your desktop on the fly-and it's easy and quick to
revise and recreate the output if you'd like to make any changes.
Numerical and graphical views of code system application, code co-occurrence within excerpts, and
code-by-descriptor correlations reveal conceptual relationships that would not be apparent through
typical resource and excerpt browsing.
Intuitive and powerful filtering via Boolean operators and sorting features allow easy examination
of results from any number of perspectives. Narrow a list of excerpts based on any combination of
filters (e.g., by resource, user, participant demographic, code, or quantitative data on individuals or groups)
and move seamlessly back and forth between the results, your excerpts, and your documents.
The EthnoNotes Training Center is a unique and easy-to-use feature which streamlines the systematic
establishment of inter-rater reliability. Your code system represents the conceptual framework you
have adopted to understand and communicate your findings to others. Demonstrating reliable application
of this system to your data is fundamental to the strength and believability of the arguments you present
to your audience.
In the EthnoNotes Training Center, project leaders prepare training sessions by setting the standards for
code application and code rating on exemplar excerpts. This exemplar work becomes the basis for training
and evaluating new project members.
Your staff then "train" online and can demonstrate their level of coding proficiency based on the designated excerpts.
They can perform these exercises independently-without the need for direct monitoring by team leaders.
Inter-rater reliability is reported using Fleiss's modification of Cohen's Kappa Coefficient for inter-rater
reliability and, where appropriate, percent agreement between the expert and trainee ratings.
Results include not only the level of proficiency demonstrated by each user in comparison with the project
standard, but also provide great detail for identifying where and what additional training would be
required, including item-by-item comparison.
Your data and analytic work reside safely on our ultra-secure servers for the duration of your
project, but we never forget who the owner is. Export any of your project data from any place in
the system with a simple select-and-click. All data are exported in common data file formats and can
be readily imported into the software you already own and are comfortable using. Your data, in the
forms you want, are always at your fingertips, ready for use in your reports, your papers, and the class or conference room.