Re: Webizen survey launched

Tobie,

There is a twitter tag, and a Facebook page.  

IMHO - If significant disparity between the number of respondents to the survey vs. the number of individuals engaged in the page / twitter feed is evident; then perhaps we can consider whether the format of the survey led to poor results.

Perhaps you can help promote the social media, which in-turn can be used to encourage people to fill out the survey.

Also: if there is any particular youtube media (or similar) available that should be posted to the feeds, it would be good to know.

I think we could all appreciate the difficulty in seeking to engage individuals, for the w3c.  Enormous potential benefits for Web (developers / development) and hopefully this is the start of a very positive movement.

Tim.H.


On 11 Sep 2014, at 10:36 pm, Tobie Langel <tobie.langel@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:14:50 +0200, Tobie Langel <tobie.langel@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:39:50 +0200, Tobie Langel <tobie.langel@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>  I'm aware I'm a bit late to the party here, but it would have been very
> useful to gather extra data about the survey participants, at least the
> following:
> 
> 1) Whether employed or freelance,
> 2) size of company they work for, and
> 3) country where they live.
> 
> 
> A number of people in the task force have made those suggestions already,
> but we chose to aim for the shortest possible survey, to avoid people being
> afraid it might take too long.
> 
> 
> That's a reasonable goal to achieve, indeed.
> 
> Why in that case insist on using WBS for the survey when there a plenty of
> more approachable and user-friendly solutions out there (most of which are
> free or really cheap)?
> 
> I was tasked with choosing the solution. I don't recall that anyone in the TF had any specific suggestion for solutions.
> 
> Constraints I was operating under were: no budget, limited time to invest.
> I looked at Survey Monkey but found that it was not free. Therefore I turned to WBS which I am pretty familiar with.
> 
> I really not trying to blame you or anyone. And the reasons for this choice are perfectly reasonable. But all of this small and seemingly innocuous choices end up painting W3C as old, out of touch, etc.
> 
> In this particular case, this also risks biasing your respondents towards those that already have a W3C account and/or who's eyes don't start bleeding when looking at WBS. Neither of which are part of the constituencies you really should be targeting with this effort.
> 
> Anyway, enough digression for today and thanks for your time answering my comments,
> 
> --tobie
> 
>