Survey Monkey

For this blog entry we were asked to use Survey Monkey to make a survey. It seems like a powerful enough tool, and if I wanted to make a online survey I might use it. But I like paper surveys better. I think that I give more time and thought to my answers, and don't just enter what ever I am thinking about at that moment. I have to compose my answers before starting to write.
I could see this tool being useful for reaching a large group of people or a group that is geographically spread out, but interoffice mail work for me. I think the best thing about this is that you don't have to type up the responses by hand, but I think that's a really good way to get a feel for the data, and start to develop conclusions before you do any formal analysis.
I played with the tools, and found that they were powerful, but I didn't have anything that I wanted to ask. I don't think that this takes advantage of the medium that it is presented in. With a online survey you can have much more media rich prompts, most of these were text. And the answers are not just limited to text either, you could have people drag around product designs and arrange them by preference or really by anything. People could build their own logos, based on elements that you give them. There's a lot of things that you can do with online media.