Weekly Poll Archive

Is great content, or efficient structure more important to your tech comm and business goals? (Please post a comment telling us why.)

  • High-quality, compelling content (76%, 16 Votes)
  • Robust and efficient structure (24%, 5 Votes)

Total Voters: 21

Start Date: May 14, 2013 @ 5:30 am
End Date: No Expiry

How Is Ubiquitous Computing Changing Tech Comm?

  • Adoption of a holistic approach to user assistance (73%, 8 Votes)
  • Constant evolution of terminology (55%, 6 Votes)
  • Collaboration between and convergence of design, marketing, documentation and support (55%, 6 Votes)
  • Integration of agile, single source, minimalism and other methodologies. (36%, 4 Votes)
  • Something else (please tell us in a comment). (27%, 3 Votes)
  • Addition of user experience and other duties (27%, 3 Votes)
  • Increased responsibilities for project and development documentation (9%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 11

Start Date: April 29, 2013 @ 12:13 am
End Date: No Expiry

Do you believe that wearable computers will change the technical communication profession?

  • Yes (Tell us why and how) (58%, 14 Votes)
  • No (Post a comment and tell us why) (42%, 10 Votes)

Total Voters: 24

Start Date: April 21, 2013 @ 7:50 pm
End Date: No Expiry

In what areas of content management should technical communicators play a role?

  • Analyzing content needs and planning for it across the organization (95%, 19 Votes)
  • Auditing and evaluating content processes and systems (90%, 18 Votes)
  • Organizing and categorizing content before publishing (90%, 18 Votes)
  • Creating, collecting, capturing content (85%, 17 Votes)
  • Assembling content into appropriate forms (web pages, ebooks, etc.) (75%, 15 Votes)
  • Localizing and/or personalizing content and publishing it to outputs (60%, 12 Votes)
  • Developing and executing metrics against published content (55%, 11 Votes)
  • Storing, securing access to, and reviewing content (50%, 10 Votes)
  • Managing retention or final destruction of content (40%, 8 Votes)
  • Migrating, archiving and backing up content (20%, 4 Votes)
  • Something else (please, do post a comment) (15%, 3 Votes)

Total Voters: 20

Start Date: April 10, 2013 @ 12:11 pm
End Date: No Expiry

What is your favorite method for encouraging SME cooperation?

  • A polite e-mail including a graphic of a bloody baseball bat (35%, 32 Votes)
  • MP4 of chainsaws sent to the SME’s smart phone with 2-word text “Final warning” (30%, 28 Votes)
  • Other (please describe) (23%, 21 Votes)
  • Water boarding and rendition to the janitorial closet (20%, 18 Votes)
  • Drugs (12%, 11 Votes)
  • Blackmail via Twitter using the #SMEHunt hashtag (10%, 9 Votes)

Total Voters: 92

Start Date: March 31, 2013 @ 3:16 pm
End Date: No Expiry