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By: Chris Puttick

Chris Puttick — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:32:50 +0000

Well, I’ve ticked boxes where I wanted to respond with other; having no idea whether the “other” boxes will actually still pass the content. Not sure if that is common sense or not, I don’t have any, being both IT and senior management…

The comment on the openness of SurveyMonkey was not on 451′s use, but the peculiar business decision of creating your own product to provide a service, when there was a highly functional open source product they could have deployed with lower costs to themselves. But then maybe they don’t have common sense either…

By: Matthew Aslett

Matthew Aslett — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:07:03 +0000

Thanks for the comment Chris. There is one question where the “other” response is not an option (this is due to user error rather than any standards incompatibility). However the thousands of people that have filled out the survey have used their common sense to find a way of answering it in a way that expresses accurate information to us. Dealing with this issue means more work for us, but it does not prevent anyone from completing the survey.

As for the openness of Surveymonkey – like most organisations The 451 Group has a pragmatic approach of using the best tool for the job that is available to us regardless of whether it is closed or open (or in this case a service based on closed or open technologies). We have an existing surveymonkey account, so we use it.

By: Chris Puttick

Chris Puttick — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:53:18 +0000

Apart from the irony of choosing Survey Monkey for this survey (who use closed source solutions. occasionally with standards compatibility issues, when there is more than one off the shelf open source survey software of equivalent capability…), the survey is broken (or standards incompatible?).

Specifically, the survey does not accept entries in the “other” option on most questions. I used that category on most questions where it was an option and it marked them all as needing an answer. Let me know when fixed and I’ll complete it.

By: Matthew Aslett

Matthew Aslett — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:22:53 +0000

No problem, and your recommendation is duly noted.

By: The VAR Guy

The VAR Guy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:20:38 +0000

Matt: The VAR Guy apologizes for causing confusion. You’ve clearly stated that the research is not sponsored by Digium. But in the future The VAR Guy would also respectfully recommend that vendors promoting the survey clearly articulate they are not sponsoring or influencing the survey’s content.

All that aside, The VAR Guy apologizes for the confusion he caused and wishes 451 Group well with its efforts.

-TVG

TheVARguy [at] NineLivesMediaInc.com

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