Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 1

Alvin Ramard (10/4/2010)
Roy Ernest (10/4/2010)
I will be sending an email to my members regarding the next topic they would like to see in T-SQL. That I think is the best way to find out what they would like to hear.
Add a paragraph in that email encouraging them to think about presenting. Hopefully that will work better there than here.

In the short one year since our chapter has been operating, we had 4 members presenting as well. It has not been that bad in that area.:-)

-Roy

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 2

Roy Ernest (10/4/2010)
Alvin Ramard (10/4/2010)
Roy Ernest (10/4/2010)
I will be sending an email to my members regarding the next topic they would like to see in T-SQL. That I think is the best way to find out what they would like to hear.
Add a paragraph in that email encouraging them to think about presenting. Hopefully that will work better there than here.
In the short one year since our chapter has been operating, we had 4 members presenting as well. It has not been that bad in that area.:-)

We've had 4 members presenting. Only two of those were not group leaders. I did 2, 12 months apart, and it looks like I may have to this month's also. That'll be 2 in a row for me.

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Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 3

Roy Ernest (10/4/2010)
I will be sending an email to my members regarding the next topic they would like to see in T-SQL. That I think is the best way to find out what they would like to hear.

Depending on how many members you could use google docs to do a survey. Very easy to do. I don't know if you can do that in the MS Office online offering (don't even know what they call it).

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738683 More actions · Answer 4

Roy, I believe there are some poll services at PollMonkey that you can use for free.

Or maybe you ought to make this a part of your regular meeting. Get people to talk about what they'd like to hear.

Dave Ballantyne SSC-Dedicated Points: 33667 More actions · Answer 5

Jack Corbett (10/4/2010)
Roy Ernest (10/4/2010)
I will be sending an email to my members regarding the next topic they would like to see in T-SQL. That I think is the best way to find out what they would like to hear.
Depending on how many members you could use google docs to do a survey. Very easy to do. I don't know if you can do that in the MS Office online offering (don't even know what they call it).

SurveyMonkey is free , i believe. Looks easy enough to use.

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 6

Jack Corbett (10/4/2010)
Roy Ernest (10/4/2010)
I will be sending an email to my members regarding the next topic they would like to see in T-SQL. That I think is the best way to find out what they would like to hear.
Depending on how many members you could use google docs to do a survey. Very easy to do. I don't know if you can do that in the MS Office online offering (don't even know what they call it).

I know we're discussing this here because we're often here and this is like our chat room, but this really belongs in the PASS leaders' forum, where more group leaders could benefit from it.

Alvin Ramard
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Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 7

No one uses that forum. That is the only problem. If you want to get good insight, this is the place to discuss. Maybe we should ask the chapter leaders to come here so that we can discuss. We get a better audience... LOL

-Roy

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 8

Roy Ernest (10/4/2010)
No one uses that forum. That is the only problem. If you want to get good insight, this is the place to discuss. Maybe we should ask the chapter leaders to come here so that we can discuss. We get a better audience... LOL

I know what you mean about the PASS forum Roy. We need to find a way to fix that.

We'd certainly get a better audience here. Just the group leaders in the Thread is probably a better audience already. 🙂 🙁

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Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 9

Alvin Ramard (10/4/2010)
Roy Ernest (10/4/2010)
No one uses that forum. That is the only problem. If you want to get good insight, this is the place to discuss. Maybe we should ask the chapter leaders to come here so that we can discuss. We get a better audience... LOL
I know what you mean about the PASS forum Roy. We need to find a way to fix that.
We'd certainly get a better audience here. Just the group leaders in the Thread is probably a better audience already. 🙂 🙁

This is one of those chicken and the egg situations. We need to use it to make it relevant, but we don't use it because it isn't relevant.

I know I don't think of the chapter leaders forums because I know so many chapter leaders are on SSC and sometimes we get going as a side discussion.

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 10

Jack Corbett (10/4/2010)
Alvin Ramard (10/4/2010)
Roy Ernest (10/4/2010)
No one uses that forum. That is the only problem. If you want to get good insight, this is the place to discuss. Maybe we should ask the chapter leaders to come here so that we can discuss. We get a better audience... LOL
I know what you mean about the PASS forum Roy. We need to find a way to fix that.
We'd certainly get a better audience here. Just the group leaders in the Thread is probably a better audience already. 🙂 🙁
This is one of those chicken and the egg situations. We need to use it to make it relevant, but we don't use it because it isn't relevant.
I know I don't think of the chapter leaders forums because I know so many chapter leaders are on SSC and sometimes we get going as a side discussion.

A few of us could help increase it's visibility simply by tweeting anything new we find in there. It would also help if we added itmes in there first.

Alvin Ramard
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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95461 More actions · Answer 11

BrainDonor (10/4/2010)
Paul White NZ (10/2/2010)
Local news: Lots of changes on 1 October. GST went up, income tax came down, and Internet bandwidth increased to 15Mbps from 10Mbps. And I'm moving house.
How much is GST increasing by? We're planning a tour of both islands for next year and had all of the hotel, fuel bills and suchlike budgeted. If we have to increase it all by a large percentage then I'm selling some of the kid's organs.

Sell them anyway... you're already a brain donor! 😀

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 12

WayneS (10/4/2010)
BrainDonor (10/4/2010)
Paul White NZ (10/2/2010)
Local news: Lots of changes on 1 October. GST went up, income tax came down, and Internet bandwidth increased to 15Mbps from 10Mbps. And I'm moving house.
How much is GST increasing by? We're planning a tour of both islands for next year and had all of the hotel, fuel bills and suchlike budgeted. If we have to increase it all by a large percentage then I'm selling some of the kid's organs.
Sell them anyway... you're already a brain donor! 😀

I'd donate my brain to science if they would agree to come retrieve it immediately. 😛

Alvin Ramard
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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 13

Have saw, will travel. See you in 2 hours, Alvin.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281344 More actions · Answer 14

The Dixie Flatline (10/4/2010)
Have saw, will travel. See you in 2 hours, Alvin.

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jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 15

Paul White NZ (10/2/2010)
WayneS (10/2/2010)
Looks gorgeous. I envy you your view!
Maybe, but you wouldn't have envied me and Justin carrying a sofa and six-burner BBQ up the stairs this morning. Comedy.

You should have carried them one at a time, that's your problem....

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