Empirical Rationalism and Other Oxymora
Make Rypples, Not Waves
I had the opportunity to speak with David Priemer (@dprimer) from Rypple’s product and community team earlier today. If you haven’t had the opportunity to check this product out yet, I’d highly recommend that you do. In a nutshell – it allows you to micro-survey (he told me they hate that word over at Rypple) an audience to get quick and anonymous feedback. I’ve used it a number of times to survey my team after big meetings and to generally check the pulse of the business. Over the past two months, I’ve found that the ability to get unfiltered and anonymous feedback has been an extermely valuable management tool. The product is still in public beta, but they’ve got a number of exciting things on the roadmap. According to David, they do weekly updates, so things are changing quickly.
Check it out and let me know what you think. Or, probably more importantly, let David know. I’m sure he’ll appreciate it.
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