RE: How do you get people to USE your scripts?
RE: How do you get people to USE your scripts?
- Subject: RE: How do you get people to USE your scripts?
- From: "Reese, Steve" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 05:58:30 -0800
- Thread-topic: How do you get people to USE your scripts?
Most people are resistant to change even when they want it. Old habits are comfortable and easy to fall back to. How you approach the marketing of an an individual script depends on what it does and it's impact to the business and why it is and is not being used. Dust off your PR and Marketing skills and do a survey, make some minor changes like file names that are more descriptive, make posters or tip cards or send a monthly news letter, put the scripts in user friendly places like the scripts menu or Dock.
stevan
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Stott [
mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Wed 11/5/2003 4:31 AM
To: AppleScript-Users
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Subject: OT: How do you get people to USE your scripts?
Hi all,
Sorry this is slightly off topic. I'm having a problem that I'm sure
some of you have experienced before. Others of you will probably
encounter it in the future so it seemed a worthy topic.
I work as a (more or less) full-time in-house scripter for an artwork
company of around 100 people. My colleagues and I write scripts that
save huge amounts of time and money. Most of the ideas for the scripts
come from the end users themselves.
A pattern has emerged though. Some users use the scripts day in and day
out which is great but there's a small but worrying proportion who's
use slowly tails off.
The scripts still work as well as they did on day 1. I can prove their
worth with figures showing that the scripts save time and money.
There's nothing technically wrong with the scripting, trust me its a
people problem!
I was wondering how you people, as scripters, launch and then promote
your scripts with the users? Do you have a big launch event? Do you do
nothing at all?
I'd be interested to know your thoughts!
Cheers
Rob
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