Comments on: Survey vs SurveyMonkey http://blog.patspam.com/2009/survey-vs-surveymonkey patspam patspam patspam Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:44:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=8988 By: Rob http://blog.patspam.com/2009/survey-vs-surveymonkey/comment-page-1#comment-659 Rob Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:22:58 +0000 http://blog.patspam.com/?p=1143#comment-659 Great article - you should have included Zoomerang in your comparison as their free and paid versions are so much better that Survey Monkey! Great article – you should have included Zoomerang in your comparison as their free and paid versions are so much better that Survey Monkey!

]]> By: Arjan http://blog.patspam.com/2009/survey-vs-surveymonkey/comment-page-1#comment-407 Arjan Fri, 15 May 2009 10:03:35 +0000 http://blog.patspam.com/?p=1143#comment-407 Dear Patrick, Great article. But I think you've missed an important aspect in the comparison. It doesn't jump into the eye because Survey and SurveyMonkey don't differ on that aspect. What our Survey nor SurveyMonkey both lack is accessibility. There's no progressive enhancement used, but they both require javascript to function at all. SurveyMonkey nor our survey validate. The perspective of your blog posting is very much technology driven, except for the privacy issue. What we see here is goal displacement, I guess. When features are added that add technical requirements at the same time, that makes your response percentage go down. This is goal displacement, because the features may very well create a bias in the data. Personally I would prefer less features to quality - meaning accessibility and usability. Especially because this is a typically a tool used to reach the public at large. Great posting, Patrick, Kind regards, Arjan. Dear Patrick,

Great article. But I think you’ve missed an important aspect in the comparison. It doesn’t jump into the eye because Survey and SurveyMonkey don’t differ on that aspect.

What our Survey nor SurveyMonkey both lack is accessibility. There’s no progressive enhancement used, but they both require javascript to function at all. SurveyMonkey nor our survey validate.

The perspective of your blog posting is very much technology driven, except for the privacy issue. What we see here is goal displacement, I guess. When features are added that add technical requirements at the same time, that makes your response percentage go down. This is goal displacement, because the features may very well create a bias in the data.

Personally I would prefer less features to quality – meaning accessibility and usability. Especially because this is a typically a tool used to reach the public at large.

Great posting, Patrick,

Kind regards,
Arjan.

]]> By: Patrick http://blog.patspam.com/2009/survey-vs-surveymonkey/comment-page-1#comment-389 Patrick Mon, 04 May 2009 23:11:31 +0000 http://blog.patspam.com/?p=1143#comment-389 @Tavis: thanks for the positive feedback and the heads-up, looks like the cron job on the PlanetWebGUI cpanel server died. It's working again now. @Tavis: thanks for the positive feedback and the heads-up, looks like the cron job on the PlanetWebGUI cpanel server died. It’s working again now.

]]> By: Tavis http://blog.patspam.com/2009/survey-vs-surveymonkey/comment-page-1#comment-388 Tavis Mon, 04 May 2009 15:19:21 +0000 http://blog.patspam.com/?p=1143#comment-388 Excellent article Patrick! I definitely think people appreciate these types of comparison articles. Nice work. Also, I'm not sure why, but Planet WebGUI hasn't updated since Apr 22. Excellent article Patrick! I definitely think people appreciate these types of comparison articles. Nice work. Also, I’m not sure why, but Planet WebGUI hasn’t updated since Apr 22.

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