doing an email survey with TB ?
ftr
in the mail and the answers are collected
Is this possible ? I searched the net, but did not find a solution. In
OL this was/is possible.
The people I would like to poll are not very internet-savvy but know
emails. So this seems easier to me than a poll via an internet site.
Any ideas ?
ftr
I mean : i look for the equivalent of the OL Use Voting Button facility.
http://www.ehow.com/how_6849746_use-microsoft-outlook-conduct-surveys.html
Greywolf
> I would like to do an email survey using TB. The survey form is included
> in the mail and the answers are collected
>
> Is this possible ? I searched the net, but did not find a solution. In
> OL this was/is possible.
>
> The people I would like to poll are not very internet-savvy but know
> emails. So this seems easier to me than a poll via an internet site.
>
> Any ideas ?
Since the body of the survey is in the e-mail itself, just ask them to
hit Reply To Sender Only (or whatever), and fill in the form when the
Reply window opens. A Reply is edited as if it were a new e-mail (so
that replies can be typed in), so this should be easy for your respondents.
An alternative is to Attach the survey form, ask them to Open it, fill
it in, and then mail it to you.
I would do both, since your respondents will vary in their habits/skills.
HTH
Wolf K.
ftr
Thanks for these ideas.
I thought of something basic, such as a button. I have several
questions, multiple answers, etc.
Of course you can do a survey with google forms but I thought that this
will already be too much for my adience. Pushing some buttons would be
the ideal. And this exists in Outlook. So I look for an equivalent.
Lou
To add to the reply:
Be sure you send the survey BCC so someone responding can not do a reply
all.
Mike Easter
> I would like to do an email survey using TB.
Did the people whose email addresses you are intending for your survey
specifically and revocably request to be emailed a survey questionnaire?
--
Mike Easter
Andrew DeFaria
> Thanks for these ideas.
> I thought of something basic, such as a button. I have several
> questions, multiple answers, etc.
> Of course you can do a survey with google forms but I thought that this
> will already be too much for my adience. Pushing some buttons would be
> the ideal. And this exists in Outlook. So I look for an equivalent.
Having a button implies actions does it not? I mean what do you want to have happen when the user pushes the button? Some action (e.g. recording their response). That implies that you have code to perform the action. And that implies that you have an email client capable of being scripted or directed what to do by remote delivery of code! And this is exactly where Outlook gets into trouble because that code could easily be malicious.
I fail to see why having the survey on a website is too much for your audience. Most people have filled in forms of one kind or another on the web - even total newbies.
I suspect the real issue is that you don't want to go through the effort of setting that up. Indeed that could be daunting for somebody who's never done that. But maybe there is some web site that would host or even allow you to generate a simple survey. Surely your audience can point and click buttons on a web site just as easily as they can do in their mail client.
Andrew DeFaria
> Thanks for these ideas.
> I thought of something basic, such as a button. I have several
> questions, multiple answers, etc.
> Of course you can do a survey with google forms but I thought that this
> will already be too much for my adience. Pushing some buttons would be
> the ideal. And this exists in Outlook. So I look for an equivalent.
Having a button implies actions does it not? I mean what do you want to have happen when the user pushes the button? Some action (e.g. recording their response). That implies that you have code to perform the action. And that implies that you have an email client capable of being scripted or directed what to do by remote delivery of code! And this is exactly where Outlook gets into trouble because that code could easily be malicious.
ftr
the members of the administrative council of a church. No need to ask
for permission.
ftr
There is another reason why I try to have an email survey : I am on
France, and it is difficult to get a web survey with all the texts,
buttons ect. in French. People here are more reluctant when it comes to
use technology that smells Unfrench - how many Americans use interfaces
which are partly in Spanish ? The people I want to contact in my church
are accustomed to paper surveys, and now to emails. I want to get a high
return rate on questions that are conflictual. So, the return rate
should not be reduced for those cultural questions of user acceptance of
web surveys. I am quite sure that only a minority ever used a web form,
not to speak of a web survey.
I already did web surveys - I am a social scientist working with
surveys. So, this is not the question.
But maybe TB is not the right tool, and I should look for email survey
programs.
Mike Easter
It seems to me that if people are members of an administrative council
of anything including a church then there is a 'working relationship'
between them and the administrative processes which justifies email
communications of a wide variety including your survey.
However, 'my' concepts of what constitutes unwanted and unsolicited mail
caused by mailing lists whether the list is derived by marketers
purchasing lists to commercially spam, or crooks acquring lists to
phish, or social spammers acquiring lists of the acquaintances of the
acquaintances of the acquaintances of theirs isn't limited to the US,
but would apply to .fr unsolicited email as well.
--
Mike Easter
Andrew DeFaria
> There is another reason why I try to have an email survey : I am on
> France, and it is difficult to get a web survey with all the texts,
> buttons ect. in French.
Surely French web designers have figured this out...
> People here are more reluctant when it comes to
> use technology that smells Unfrench
So I've heard... ;-)
> - how many Americans use interfaces
> which are partly in Spanish ?
Considering the amount of Spanish/Mexican/Latino immigrants I'd say *a lot*! ;-)
> The people I want to contact in my church
> are accustomed to paper surveys, and now to emails. I want to get a high
> return rate on questions that are conflictual. So, the return rate
> should not be reduced for those cultural questions of user acceptance of
> web surveys. I am quite sure that only a minority ever used a web form,
> not to speak of a web survey.
Who *are* these people?!? ;-)
Oh well, I guess you know your audience best but in this day and age there are still people in a Western country who have not experienced the joys of filling out a web form? It boggles the mind!
> I already did web surveys - I am a social scientist working with
> surveys. So, this is not the question.
>
> But maybe TB is not the right tool, and I should look for email survey
> programs.
Well perhaps now you understand why it's not necessarily a good (read secure) thing to do.
Ron Hunter
Well, some people just don't like getting surveys. Of course, they can
just delete the email if they don't wish to respond.
leahha...@gmail.com
maho...@hotmail.com
http://web.appstorm.net/roundups/18-awesome-survey-poll-apps/