Helen - nice to hear your enthusiasm, I agree with most of what you say -
but its absolutely vital to emphasise (on this general list especially) that
those in the team project environment stick with NUD*IST, if thats what
they've got in hand, or consider another 'merge-worthy' package. One of the
significant differences between the two software programs - NVivo hasn't yet
got the capability to merge different projects together - i.e. from partners
in a team project working simultaneously on their own 'bits' of a larger
project - which are to be brought together to form one BIG project later. I
am sure it will happen before too long - but not yet.
The other difference, again - at the moment , there are no command files; so
if you are an experienced use of N4 - making use of command files a lot -
you may miss this in Nvivo, for now.
But in terms of planning in the longer term- those using NUDIST, either
individually or in the team environment will be able to import their
individual or as Clare Tagg suggested the other day, already merged projects
into NVivo.
regards
Ann
-----Original Message-----
From: Bowman, Helen [CES] <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 17 September 1999 08:10
Subject: RE: Nudist and NVIVO
>Hello
>
>I have just switched from Nudist4 to NVIVO and am much happier already. I
was regularly drawn into an erroneous mouse click which would crash my
computer (an NT) with Nudist 4. I found the restriction to text units and
the clumsiness of editing annoying in Nudist4, plus the lack of visual
representations (without buying an addin) didn't help my limited creativity
in analysis and I was forced to switch between paper and pens and the
software. I have only been using NVIVO for a day and already the more
pleasant environment, ease of editing (even though it's a bit slow - it is
much easier to the eye and in the process), ease of coding and the modelling
facility have inspired me to be in work at 7.30 just so that I can get on
with theory building.
>
>Ridiculously enthusiastic I know but I would recommend anybody considering
buying the software to go straight for NVIVO and not to bother with Nudist
4 - there is always that period when a new piece of software is delivered
that those who have used the previous version/model remain hooked in to the
familiar (I've been there myself with Lotus 123 believe it or not!) but for
new users there seems no reason to be fettered by any such loyalty.
>
>By the way Mark the QSR website does have reading lists that are worth
following up.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Helen
>
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