The Beta-Test – With Thanks
They said that I could beta-test
Their product new – with all the rest
Around the world, some eighty-strong –
We tried it out to find what’s wrong –But not just wrong, but right – you see,
We want NVivo-10 to be
The best that we can use today –
Through data-text to find our way.New features must a mystery
Remain for others – soon they’ll see;
A blast it was to make them smooth,
So they could each new feature use.My use is on periphery –
A fiction-writing tool for me;
A high-end way to view a text:
It helps upgrade “first-draft” to “best”.Each “character” a node becomes;
With click and drag each page then runs
To multi-nodal-files, to see
If characters consistent be.Each “setting”-node is checked with view
To make the reading rich for you;
The themes, and jokes, and smart-ass lines,
Are spread – to characters refine.The “symbols for each phase of grief”;
Or “stage-of-change”; or “stress-relief”;
The flow as “people come of age”;
All balanced through each coded page.The “research parts” for scene and set,
Are clickable to records check;
“Rich data from the Internet”
Is researched, coded, modeled, checked.So, thank you Marcus and your team,
Who worked with us – our time has been
Delightful – three weeks flew so fast –
Good memories of this time will last.Thanks.