Microsoft Survey (paid) - Sharepoint or Publisher users

Microsoft User Research conducts thousands of Usability studies and focus group sessions every year. We currently have 2 different opportunities for you to take part in the product development process at Microsoft. Both opportunities involve taking part in an online survey from your location. All participants selected for these studies will select a retail hardware or software product from a list of popular Microsoft titles including Office 2007, Zune Dock Pack, Xbox 360 games and much more.

Opportunity 1: Microsoft Publisher

Do you use Microsoft Publisher on a regular basis? If you meet the criteria listed below we would like to invite you to participate in an online survey:

Criteria:


* US Citizen or permanent resident with Social Security number

* 18 years of age or older

* Work for a business with 3-100 employees

* Use Microsoft Publisher to create marketing materials such as brochures, flyers, newsletters, posters, business cards, or marketing campaigns

* Not employed as an IT Professional, graphic designer or web designer

* Not employed by Microsoft Corporation

If you're interested in participating, please send an email to uccoord@microsoft.com with a subject of 'Publisher Study'. Include your daytime phone number so we can contact you for further screening. We cannot guarantee that everyone who sends an email will be screened for this study or that everyone who is screened for the study will be scheduled.


Opportunity 2: SharePoint, Groove User Research

For this study we need a mixture of US and Canadian participants. The criteria are pretty specific and we will ask additional screening questions of those people who express an interest in participating.

Criteria for participation:

* Do not work in the IT field or have an IT-related job role including software developers and programmers

* Work for a company with at least 100 employees

* Company must have a web-based internal portal like SharePoint, Plumtree, Documentum, etc. to share/post documents

* Create/author documents/files and share them with other members of your company using a web-based portal at least twice per week

* Participants should use social networking sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, etc.

* Use Office 2007

If you're interested in participating, please send an email to uccoord@microsoft.com with a subject of 'SharePoint/Groove Study'.

We cannot guarantee that everyone who sends an email will be screened for this study or that everyone who is screened for the study will be scheduled.

For other User Research opportunities, please fill out our online signup form

Thanks - The Microsoft User Research Team