Automated Survey Alerts
Tracker has a new survey feature to help when you need to react quickly to a tenant’s survey response.
Tracker has a new survey feature to help when you need to react quickly to a tenant’s survey response.
Tracker already offers a range of survey methodologies for you to use in any combination:
• SMS/Text surveys
• Postal surveys
• Telephone surveys
• Face to Face surveys
Now you can give your tenants the additional option of completing online surveys.
Arena Partnership’s Alan Marshall has had many conversations with community teams over recent months and found a common view about evaluating the social impact of support and regeneration programmes.
Red Kite wants more feedback and quicker
Red Kite Community Housing is adopting a new approach to gathering customer feedback and has signed a two-year deal with Arena Partnership to help deliver it.
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Why the #ManOnTheMoon advert is relevant to social housing landlords
John Lewis released their eagerly awaited Christmas advert last week, once again taking social media by storm, clocking up an impressive 23,000 online mentions in just two hours (Mail Online). The advert tells the story of a young girl called Lily who brings Christmas joy to a lonely old man living on the moon by finally being able to send him a gift from earth. The advert will undoubtedly be a success for the retail giant however how well will the underlying message be listened to?
SMS text messages are regularly used by GP’s, dentists and hairdressers to reduced missed appointments etc. SMS messages can also have positive applications in the social housing sector. Although it is common place for many housing providers to send repairs appointment confirmations via texts, further more innovative uses of text messaging in social housing are less widespread.
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Two Network Members are starting trials of one of the latest developments within the Tracker Suite; the facility for tracking programmes of intervention and support for residents. Accord’s Add Ventures team is using the new ‘Programme Tracker’ module to manage its employment and skills support programme: tracking individual intervention journeys for clients and evaluating overall impact. This includes profiling the specific needs of each client, monitoring their personal support programme, tracking their progress with a series of feedback questionnaires and star evaluations, and then evaluating the overall impact achieved.
Recent research indicated that if you were to replace all your customer feedback questionnaires with a single question, it should be: “How likely would you be to recommend your landlord to friends or family?”
‘Social Return on Investment’ (SROI) is now the standard methodology for evaluating activities and programmes with a social impact: