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mikeselectricstuff:
From Twitter  :
5 Agilent 34461A Digital Multimeter's to give away in our latest RoadTest. Enroll for a chance to get one now
http://www.element14.com/community/roadTests/1194?CMP=SOM-ROADT-AGILENT-34461A-ENROLL-TW

lewis:

--- Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on September 14, 2013, 08:15:35 am ---From Twitter  :
5 Agilent 34461A Digital Multimeter's to give away in our latest RoadTest. Enroll for a chance to get one now
http://www.element14.com/community/roadTests/1194?CMP=SOM-ROADT-AGILENT-34461A-ENROLL-TW

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God I hate it when big companies get punctuation wrong.

Psi:
So it's not really a competition/give away, more a review/test and you get to keep it ?

Bored@Work:

--- Quote from: Psi on September 19, 2013, 09:34:49 am ---So it's not really a competition/give away, more a review/test and you get to keep it ?

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The review/test thing is the big question. It depends on if/how element14 and Agilent tend to enforce their rules. I think there is a threat if you don't deliver a review within end of October they'll exclude you from further road tests. I have no idea if they do so. But judging from previous reviews, the quality requirements for reviews don't seem to be hight. At best they are boring reports of "I did this, than that". At worst it is "I received it, it is great, thank you and good by!".

And it seems this time they also want at least three blog posts in addition to the review, strongly suggesting to do videos. That makes four pieces you need to produce, three with video.

If you take the requirements serious than it is quite some work, at least for people with no experience in video blogging. In that case you really have to earn yourself the meter. If one (and element14) don't take the requirements serious one can of course get away with maybe two hours of work. If one is a leecher and doesn't care about exclusion from future road tests one might get away with zero hours.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Psi on September 19, 2013, 09:34:49 am ---So it's not really a competition/give away, more a review/test and you get to keep it ?

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Yes, that's how it works.
Element 14 convince companies like Agilent that they have a massive community and if they give equipment away to their members (some of it very expensive) for "road tests" they'll get a bunch of quality "reviews" that will get countless views and massive product engagement that the PR department will drool over and be able to tick off their monthly social media KPI's.
The truth of course is that that community is pretty awful (no offense to those who contribute of course, it's just the website), and their engagement and views are pretty low.
If Agilent and others did the same thing here on this forum (arguably by far the leading T&M forum the net) they'd get 100 times the views and much better engagement.
But Element 14 have much better clout.

Here is the stuff available and previous reviews:
http://www.element14.com/community/groups/roadtest

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