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  • From: Wolf Ludwig <wolf.ludwig AT comunica-ch.net>
  • To: Luka Frelih <luka AT ljudmila.org>, cc-europe AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [CC-Europe] CC affiliate survey is easy to do (affiliates are lazy slackers?)
  • Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:51:45 +0100

Hi all,

I just want to support Luka's remarks on the handling and announcement
of this Survey which was not very pin-pointed in a previous summary mail.
Surveys like this are not self-fulfilling issues but need some mobilisation
and promotion in volunteer communities (who have plenty of other things
to do in their real life).

Finally, it was Jon's kind reminder what made me aware ...

Best,
Wolf


Luka Frelih wrote Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:18:
>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:
>> (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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