Re: Make Your Voice Heard: Take the Adobe Tech Comm Survey: What You SAY is What You Get

[David Crosswell <davidcrosswell -at- internode -dot- on -dot- net>]

On 25/05/13 06:24, Tony Chung wrote:
> >From the "Things to watch out for" department, I believe Adobe should post
> a landing page at campaignsandevents.com to provide background and add
> credibility to the domain. Right now the domain cannot be found.
>
> As a value-added service, the main site could provide links to current
> survey campaigns and event appearances, as well as an archive of the survey
> results. Too often I take these surveys and I don't see what results it
> turned up. It would be nice for Adobe to provide a public version of their
> report for use as an engagement tool.


Commercial entities rarely supply access to r4esults of marketing surveys.
Why should they invest to enrich the knowledge capital of their competition?

I get that feedback from other types of survey participation, but not
commercial.
Cheers!

David

>
> -Tony
>
> **
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> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:31 PM, TechWhirl Admin <admin -at- techwhirl -dot- com>wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> You are not required to fill out the survey, but we hope that you will
>> because Adobe Systems provides a lot of the support that we need to keep
>> this list going.  You are free to comment here on the survey, but please
>> make it about tech comm.
>>
>>    - Yes it's a legitimate poll from Adobe (I would not post something that
>>    I was unsure of)
>>    - Yes they use several sites and are running a number of different
>>    events, I am sure that Grey is one of a number of agencies doing work on
>>    behalf of Adobe.
>>    - I do not know specifically why gender is a question, but an awful lot
>>    of companies use gender and age as a matter of course in identifying
>>    demographic trends from surveys.
>>    - If you have had issues getting answers from Adobe related to technical
>>    questions, I can suggest visiting their community forums, or posting  a
>>    legitimate technical question here.  Adobe staff monitor the list and
>> can
>>    respond when appropriate.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Connie Giordano
>> List Moderator
>>
>> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:16 PM, David Crosswell <
>> davidcrosswell -at- internode -dot- on -dot- net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 25 May 2013 04:10:56 AM Lee Hunter wrote:
>>>> Does gender have some relevance to how you use tech comm tools? I'm
>>>> wondering why that's a compulsory question.
>>>
>>> No, that's shopping for demographics.
>>> All these things come into marketing.
>>> Perhaps the next survey will be on a pink background?
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> David.
>>>
>>>> Lee Hunter
>>>> Drupal Docs Team Lead
>>>>
>>>> On 24 May 2013 10:59, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
>>>>> As there are two other surveys (using site search)
>>>>> *adobeday.campaignsandevents.com*
>>>>> *adobedayatuaeurope.campaignsandevents.com
>>>>>
>>>>> *
>>>>> I'm willing to bet it's an Adobe roll-your-own.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Tony
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