Thursday, September 23, 2010

Decision Making - Week 2

Pirates and monkeys. That is what will stick with me most this week. Despite my lack of enthusiasm, the statistics part of the class has not been that bad and I am starting to understand things a bit more.

The assignment that took the most of my time was the survey comparison. One of the sites that caught my eye was Survey Pirate. I happened to see that title in the list and had to check it out. After all, last Sunday was International Talk Like A Pirate Day! (Everyone knows about this, right? Was I the only one celebrating?)

After visiting the site, not only was I disappointed that there were no pirates but the software was not that good. You can't judge a book by its cover, right?


The other site I checked out was Survey Monkey. I had used this site in the past but have been off of it for about 2 years. I was surprised at all of the new features that were added. I was also surprised that, after adding these features, the price of the site did not go up. There were lots of great enhancements and the price is great (only $200/year for unlimited responses).

I really enjoyed the Capterra site as well. What a great resource for finding any sort of software that you may need. Who knew that there were so many choices!

1 comment:

  1. Arrrgh, Talk like a Survey Pirate Day was a success. Arggggh. But the 'lite' version should be called 'Survey Parrot' as it can rest on the shoulder of Black Beard. Arrghh.

    Enjoyed the images and the pirate references. At work we used Survey Monkey for all of our surveys. The marketing department surveyed pharmacists and other health care professionals with it at least every two weeks. When I asked the folks why they used Survey Monkey they said that it was the price that it took care of all of their requirements. Not bad when a $20M/year company can get all that for $200!

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