Survey results from our January, 2006 issue

Following are the results from last month's poll regarding single-sourcing. As I look at these percentages, I almost feel as if we should conduct this poll again. Am I seeing this right? What do you think?

Has single-sourcing solved all or most problems you’ve experienced when writing documentation targeted to multiple audiences with various needs?
Yes. We use single-sourcing for all our projects.	22.2%
Yes, but we use single sourcing for only some projects.	31.5%
No. Single-sourcing has made our writing process more complicated, resulting in more work – not less.	11.1%
No. Single-sourcing does not work for us.	13.0%
We don’t use single-sourcing because we don’t know anything about it.	22.2%

I suppose that even though only 22.2% of our respondents use single-sourcing for "all" projects, the 31.5% of respondents who use it for "some" projects boosts the overall usage to over 50%. Perhaps that's a reasonable statistic at this point in time for this technology.

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Technical Conferences

With the economy still in a state of slow, incremental recovery and corporations on the never-ending bandwagon to cut costs, should companies still pay for writers to attend off-site, multi-day conferences related to the technical writing profession?

	Yes. Conferences are not only an investment in the employees, they also benefit the company from the knowledge employees gain.
	Yes. Companies should pay conference expenses, but not employee travel expenses.
	No; however, companies should allow employees time off (with pay) to attend conferences.
	No. Employees should attain all forms of advanced education on their own time and at their own expense.

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