Forms? How about a Web app?

We did a little survey of participants in the RESADM-L listserv, an email discussion list that serves the community of research administrators (RAs) at universities and colleges in the US. (The listserv archives are here.)

Grants.gov will soon be releasing a new set of downloadable forms based on Adobe technology. We wanted to gauge the impact on the RAs who are responsible for preparing and submitting proposals. This is a non-scientific survey, but it supports what we hear anecdotally all the time: that downloadable forms are inherently difficult to work with. The results of the survey are available here in PDF format.

As I've said before, Cayuse customers don't have to worry about downloadable forms nearly as much as institutions that insist on using them exclusively. There is definitely a better way.