What's your favorite TV show set in Chicago?
- The Bob Newhart Show (1972-1978) (38%, 5 Votes)
- The Good Wife (2009-present) (23%, 3 Votes)
- Married with Children (1987-1997) (15%, 2 Votes)
- The Untouchables (1959-1963) (8%, 1 Votes)
- Family Matters (1989-1998) (8%, 1 Votes)
- Good Times (1974-1979) (8%, 1 Votes)
- Kolchak the Night Stalker (1974-1975) (0%, 0 Votes)
- ER (1994-2009) (0%, 0 Votes)
- Andy Richter Controls the Universe (2002-2003) (0%, 0 Votes)
- Other (Please tell us!) (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 13
Start Date: May 14, 2012 @ 4:00 am
End Date: No Expiry
What's your favorite movie set in Chicago?
- The Blues Brothers (1980) (36%, 8 Votes)
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) (32%, 7 Votes)
- A League of Their Own (1992) (9%, 2 Votes)
- Other (Please tell us) (5%, 1 Votes)
- The Untouchables (1987) (5%, 1 Votes)
- The Sting (1973) (5%, 1 Votes)
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) (5%, 1 Votes)
- Chicago (2002) (5%, 1 Votes)
- The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) (0%, 0 Votes)
- Scarface (1932) (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 22
Start Date: May 7, 2012 @ 10:44 pm
End Date: No Expiry
What kind of SWAG or other incentive would sway your decision to attend a conference?
- Books - real published stuff that I'd have to buy otherwise (61%, 14 Votes)
- Reduced registration fees - My budget needs every penny (57%, 13 Votes)
- Gadgets - I need cool things to entice SMEs to my cube for interviews (52%, 12 Votes)
- Product trials/free consulting - I like to try before I buy (35%, 8 Votes)
- Apparel - Tech Comm needs its own fashionistas (22%, 5 Votes)
- Edibles/Drinkables - because we live on caffeine and chocolate (17%, 4 Votes)
- Office supplies - more pens and post-it notes (17%, 4 Votes)
- Something else (please dish!) (4%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 23
Start Date: May 1, 2012 @ 9:30 am
End Date: No Expiry
What are your most reliable sources of answers to grammar and usage questions
- My style guide of choice (MMoS, Apple, Chicago, etc.) (57%, 24 Votes)
- Websites such as Grammar Girl, Wordnik, and Visual Thesaurus (52%, 22 Votes)
- My bookshelf full of classic references (40%, 17 Votes)
- Something else (please tell us!) (10%, 4 Votes)
- Wikipedia (10%, 4 Votes)
- My authoring tool's built-in grammar and spell-check (10%, 4 Votes)
- Asking and answering questions on a discussion list (7%, 3 Votes)
- My high school English teacher (2%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 42
Start Date: April 24, 2012 @ 10:00 am
End Date: No Expiry
In what other professional communities, besides tech comm, are you active?
- Writing / Editing (94%, 15 Votes)
- Usability / User Experience (56%, 9 Votes)
- Content Strategy (50%, 8 Votes)
- Information Design (50%, 8 Votes)
- eLearning / Training (38%, 6 Votes)
- Marketing (31%, 5 Votes)
- Other (25%, 4 Votes)
- Product Development (19%, 3 Votes)
- Open Source (6%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 16
Start Date: April 17, 2012 @ 10:00 am
End Date: No Expiry