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Tim: We have been using Transana for qualitative analysis of audio and video. http://www.transana.org/ It comes from WCER at U-W Madison. Runs on both PC and Mac. They have both single user, stand alone versions and multi-user client/server versions. We use the multi-user version that allows multiple researchers to store audio/video and transcripts and share coding schemes. Pricing is very attractive. They are having a training session at U-W end of this month (see below) which would be a good way to see if it meets your needs. The lead developer, David Woods, is available for on-site training. If you can convince your users to switch, I'd recommend dumping NVivo as I think it is highly overrated. Mark Mark Urban-Lurain, Ph.D. Director of Instructional Technology Research & Development Division of Science and Mathematics Education College of Natural Science Michigan State University 111 N. Kedzie Lab Voice: (517) 432-2152 x 119 East Lansing, MI 48824 Fax: (517) 432-5653 [log in to unmask] www.msu.edu/~urban -----Original Message----- From: David Woods [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 4:22 PM Subject: Transana Training Workshop I just wanted to let you know that there is still space in this summer's Transana Training Workshop, which will be held on July 24 & 25, 2008 in Madison, Wisconsin. To find out more about the training session, see http://www.transana.org/support/20080724.htm. To register for the training workshop, see https://secure.wceruw.org/transanasales/WorkshopRegistration.htm. David > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:02:44 -0400 > From: Timothy Woods <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: NVivo Caveat > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0015_01C8D83C.F1F9B390 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I am not sure if anyone has had the joy of working with QSR > when trying to reinstall a boxed copy of NVivo 7. After > entering the 25 digit product key code you are required to > register the product. If you do not have the Exact name of > how it was registered originally it will deny you activation > of the product. To make a long story short, if you do not > have the exact registration information you cannot reactivate > and use the software. If any department is using NVivo I > would highly recommend whoever installs it that they write > down what was entered for the required registration. In > addition to this we have had problems with 3 of the programs > running correctly out of about 10. > > > > Their out of this world support is based out of Australia and > if you need to call them you have to call them > internationally long distance and it has to be 9:-5:30 > Australia time! > > > > Apparently there are not a lot of choices out there for > qualitative research software, but is anyone using anything > else they could recommend? > > > > Thanks > > > > Tim >