Comments on: STC Intercom – Editorial Calendar progress http://justwriteclick.com/2008/07/20/stc-intercom-editorial-calendar-progress/ Documentation as conversation Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:58:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: annegentle http://justwriteclick.com/2008/07/20/stc-intercom-editorial-calendar-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-10947 annegentle Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:41:46 +0000 http://justwriteclick.com/?p=381#comment-10947 Hi Ulla, thanks for reading. I'm glad it was a useful post. I think that you're talking about the difference between an open sort and a closed sort. We did a closed sort where the categories were pre-defined. An open sort lets the participants create the categtories. The Websort User Guide mentions open sorts in the analysis section so I think that you can do an open sort with Websort. See http://www.websort.net/?pg=guide#open. Our reasons for using a closed sort were to narrow down categories, since we had so many to begin with. There wasn't a good reason to make the participants retype all their ideas. Also, since our number of participants was low, we would not have gained the statistical significance of more "votes" for one category over another. Since we gathered other ideas from non-sorting-participants, we needed to include all the ideas in the sort. I'll post the results of our sort which might help you see how we ended up grouping our categories. Thanks, Anne Hi Ulla, thanks for reading. I’m glad it was a useful post.

I think that you’re talking about the difference between an open sort and a closed sort. We did a closed sort where the categories were pre-defined. An open sort lets the participants create the categtories. The Websort User Guide mentions open sorts in the analysis section so I think that you can do an open sort with Websort. See http://www.websort.net/?pg=guide#open.

Our reasons for using a closed sort were to narrow down categories, since we had so many to begin with. There wasn’t a good reason to make the participants retype all their ideas. Also, since our number of participants was low, we would not have gained the statistical significance of more “votes” for one category over another. Since we gathered other ideas from non-sorting-participants, we needed to include all the ideas in the sort.

I’ll post the results of our sort which might help you see how we ended up grouping our categories.

Thanks,
Anne

]]> By: ulla tonner http://justwriteclick.com/2008/07/20/stc-intercom-editorial-calendar-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-10926 ulla tonner Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:37:43 +0000 http://justwriteclick.com/?p=381#comment-10926 Hi Thanks for sharing. I'm looking for someone who would sharew experience in conducting these tests online, as I'm thinking of conducting one myself - in relation to an intranet project. So, it was very interesting to read your post. But I was planning to let the participants define the categories themselves. I can see that you made them beforehand from the brain storming themes? Why did you choose this method? And do you know whether it's possible to do this with the tool, and if it works in a good way? /Ulla Hi
Thanks for sharing. I’m looking for someone who would sharew experience in conducting these tests online, as I’m thinking of conducting one myself – in relation to an intranet project. So, it was very interesting to read your post.
But I was planning to let the participants define the categories themselves. I can see that you made them beforehand from the brain storming themes? Why did you choose this method? And do you know whether it’s possible to do this with the tool, and if it works in a good way?
/Ulla

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