Friday, December 5, 2008
SharePoint for Project Management: Book giveaway
We’re ready to start giving out the books from the SharePoint for Project Management giveaway. Go to the survey form and give us feedback on the most important topics for you. At the end of next week, December 12, we will close down the survey, tally the results and announce the winners of the books.
Dux and I will be watching closely to see what you choose. We might even create a solution for the five most popular problems. So give it your best shot. What Project Management problems would you like to see solved with SharePoint?
Thanks for participating.
Dux and Mark
Great survey- and HOW CAN I GET THE ABILITY TO MAKE SUCH A SURVEY?? That is not OOTB SharePoint, obviously. We use SurveyMonkey for that type of question complexity but I’d much rather use MOSS!!
Hi, Nancy -
It is Out of the Box SharePoint. In fact, not only can you do it in MOSS 2007, you can also build the survey in WSS 3.0.
The trick is that you have to enable anonymous access for the survey permission settings so participants don’t have to have an account to respond/view the survey.
Cheers,
Dux
Nancy – Well yes, actually it is. I created each of the questions as a Rating type… pretty simple right? I then saved it as a template, emailed it to Dux and he installed it in his SharePoint site.
I’ll sell it to you for $1000, or I’ll include it in the next Weekly Newsletter, if you ask nicely.
Mark
I am not seeing where you are associating the survey repsonses to a respondant since there is no login to the site required to answer the survey. How are you tracking who is who to pick winners for the giveaway? Should’nt you have included fields for respondants to identify themselves by name and email address minimally?
Also, did you realize that respondants could take the survey more than once?
Please?? Please please let us know how to do that great survey format??
Hermine,
I took the problems from a previous post so that I know who is associated with each. Regarding the multiple responses, you are correct. I have sent a message to Dux to reconfigure the survey.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Mark
Nancy – Just because you asked nicely, it will be included as a download with the next Weekly Newsletter. — Dad
How will you know who won the book? We didn’t leave any information with the survey.
Kevin – Ahhh… didn’t you have to put in your email address before posting a comment? Tricky, right? — Mark
True, but there are like 90 responses to the survey. :) Is everyone supposed to post back here so you can collect e-mail addresses?
Nope… it’s not the RESPONSES that win, it’s the PROBLEM STATEMENT that wins. Dux and I are going to go over the results next weekend and then we will post the winners based upon the community’s response to the problem statement.
I didn’t put the problem statement author names in the survey, just to make it easier to concentrate on the problem. However, that doesn’t mean the authors don’t recognize their own ‘hand writing’, and can ask their friends to participate.
This is more of a fun time thing than a hard core ‘win a million dollars!’ promotion. It’s kind of relaxed, but people are having a good time. Obviously, you are. Are you trying to win one of the books?
Ahhhh, I misunderstood. I got it now.
Well, I look forward to what comes out of this. The problems posted were very interesting and I’m anxious to see the results.
Thanks for clearing things up. :)
Great survey. Very anxious to see what comes out of this.