I don't know your organization but we have to cater to people who want to
remain quite private. One we only know an address and a name of VLK
(probably initials). Another we know essentially nothing. They wanted our
membership card which is good for a 10% discount so they stopped by the
office , paid cash, picked up their card and left. The card has their name
and expiration date but nothing else. It is hard to turn down memberships
which cost you essentially nothing.
Prefix is a dangerous item to require. Can you guess whether to put in Mr.
or Ms. for a first name of Loren? Is it worth getting it wrong?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shaugn Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 9:56 PM
> To: TechRocks Support
> Subject: [support] Style Sheet
>
>
> Helpful people:
>
> I'm in the mist of creating a style sheet for data entry. We are having a
> lively in-house debate about setting mininum standards. Currently we are
> considering setting the following mininum required fields:
> -prefix
> -first name
> -last name
> -complete home or work address (we have customize ebase to enable us to
> put in to sets of addresses - dave's handy work!)
> -work tel or home tel or cell tel or email
>
> This would enable us to send solicitations and other communications to
> contacts using a few methods. Considerable resistance exists from
> programming/campaigning staff to being required to input last names or
> home phone numbers. The standards are being label discriminatory as they
> wouldn't enable people who don't want to give all this contact information
> access to our communications.
>
> I would welcome advice on what contact fields to set as required fields
> and why? Also, does anyone have recommendations regarding the process for
> developing/adopting a style sheet?
>
> regards. shaugn
>
>
>
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