Dina Mehta: Blogs & BloggingPublishing, networking, communication, collaboration - Conversations with DinaShubhangi- March 29, 2007 I've known Shubhangi for almost 15 years. We worked in the same company then. We still do. She's been my mainstay at Explore Research and Consultancy, ever since she came on board way back in 1999. I've never known her to panic, feel out of control and never once has she met any of my requests (however absurd they may seem) with anything less than a smile and a "we can do it". She makes my life so easy really.Tremendously talented and always looking out for something new to do - yeah - she.http://radio.weblogs.com/0121664/categories/blogsBlogging/2007/03/29.html#a933 Lets Stop Cyberbullying- March 28, 2007 I am shocked at the venom and death threats against Kathy Sierra - it is sick, mean, even anarchical and evil, totally unethical. My first reaction was disgust and dismay and I have the greatest sympathy for what she is going through - but I find myself as appalled at the knee-jerk reaction of hate going around about a set of people implicated in her post - its not doing much good I'm afraid. Truly Evil minds whoever they are in this case, feed on such things. I feel Mitch Ratcliffe's post is a.http://radio.weblogs.com/0121664/categories/blogsBlogging/2007/03/29.html#a932 Will Blogs Kill Focus Groups- March 26, 2007 I was thinking back on my last post ... and asking myself will blogs kill focus groups I hope not, as that will mean I am out of business as a conventional qualitative researcher :). And I think not. Because, while both can be research tools, the differences in the nature of these tools is intrinsic to the conversations they foster. Because, especially in a country like India, a large portion of the 'consuming' population is still not online. Because, often the focus group is treated as an..http://radio.weblogs.com/0121664/categories/blogsBlogging/2007/03/26.html#a929 Social Media - Low Cost Qualitative Research- March 26, 2007 Maggie Fox has a neat post on How Social Media is Changing Everything"If you've ever wished you had the budget for a focus group, now you do. All that's required is reaching out to a couple of key individuals and asking them if they would be interested in testing your product or process and letting you know what they think, or posting about it, if they like. Blogs in particular and social media in general can offer incredible insight for a relatively small investment (your time is...http://radio.weblogs.com/0121664/categories/blogsBlogging/2007/03/26.html#a928 ROI on Blogging - Enterprise 2.0- March 22, 2007 Jon Husband of Wirearchy and Lee Bryant of Headshift, have recently put in a lot of thought on Enterprise 2.0 ... "Will we see more written about what will probably come to be called Management 2.0 No doubt. Will there be massive struggles with this new set of conditions and ongoing resistance to coming to terms with these dynamics No doubt. Will resisting and ignoring and denying work Maybe for the short term, but these new conditions are not going away ... and I posit that the issues...http://radio.weblogs.com/0121664/categories/blogsBlogging/2007/03/22.html#a927 Social Media Today- March 19, 2007 I was invited to be a part of the Social Media Collective, but I've been a lurker for a bit and not blogged there yet. Then I haven't been blogging much here either :(. The google group for the collective has lots of good conversations going. Note to self .. wake up Dina!http://radio.weblogs.com/0121664/categories/blogsBlogging/2007/03/19.html#a922 Twitter Tweets- March 19, 2007 Social discovery, presence, "party-line", RSS for people with not much to say, potential for use in saving lives during disasters, publish on the go, ambient intimacy (link found in a comment at Ross Mayfield's post on Moodgeist, Skype and Twitter IM Overlay, the future of presence, push technology, keeping track of yourself and friends, a false sense of "I'm connected", microblogging and Twitter-only blogging, group or public IM system, swarming and smart mobbing, blogging on 'crack' ........http://radio.weblogs.com/0121664/categories/blogsBlogging/2007/03/19.html#a920 Speak Out- March 6, 2007 On International Women's Day this year on March 8, The Blank Noise Project is once again, collecting stories in another blogathon. From their announcer post ..."This is an attempt to understand how different women ( across age groups cultures communities) have dealt with street sexual harassment in their everyday lives. Male bloggers are encouraged to share stories of women in their lives and how they have dealt with street sexual harassment. Non bloggers are also invited to participate-..http://radio.weblogs.com/0121664/categories/blogsBlogging/2007/03/06.html#a918 |