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  • From: Luka Frelih <luka AT ljudmila.org>
  • To: cc-europe AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [CC-Europe] CC affiliate survey is easy to do (affiliates are lazy slackers?)
  • Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:18:19 +0100

the fact that this survey is quite easy to answer could be more obvious if the questions were (also?) sent plaintext in an email at some point in the process.
just my 2 tolars... read on if you still care and have time ;)

actually, i had to search quite deeply in my mail heap now to find the original message from diane linking to the survey two weeks ago. it's really not _that_ surprising how many people missed it - a single link at the bottom of a single mail written in a really small font (on my screen at least) summarizing two other matters and also calling it annual report. there are many meta-issues and just-in-cases clarified in the two long paragraphs relating to it there but no word on what information you are after. 

we are all humans, overly busy ones mostly, and mails fly by so fast these days that when actual action by the recipient is wanted it should ideally be obvious just by looking at the subject and first few lines of the mail what the assignment entails, not just that there is an assignment, with the crucial information behind a link, a whole another click, different application (in case of us oldfashioned folks not using webmail) and more importantly brain context-switch away. your mail will very rarely be read twice by the same person.

michelle's mail yesterday was better in this regard, except it was "only hours before" the deadline, instead of first one week, then three days and finally one day before (after?). together with imperative tone "all of you must" it created unneeded tension which at least my answers surely reflected... it assures the survey is short, but warns of potential problems viewing it and asks us to ask for the plain text version instead of providing it just in case.

more bits of advice for when you want people to get your message in their brain as opposed to just receiving your email in their mailbox and glazing over it:
 * stick to one topic per message,
 * avoid sending formatted (html) emails,
 * less is more
 
best,
LF

p.s. this message is (unavoidably) troll bait, so think twice before replying to it. if you really must, please mention you read this p.s. at least :)

On 16. 12. 2010 01:05, Federico Morando wrote:
4D0957C5.9070200 AT gmail.com" type="cite">(Done also here at CC Italia) Indeed I confirm: it's a very simple survey!

Best,

Federico


Paul Keller wrote:
thanks alek for raising this issue. i think that alek is right on all points. it took us less then 15 minutes to complete the survey.... /paul

to answer alek's final rhetorical question, we should try harder! (that chick hit the streets at noon)

top post is especially evil in long troll threads if you don't delete anything below ever. lol kthxby



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