Together with my colleague Benedikt Schmidt from TU Darmstadt I am conducting the Knowledge Worker Roles Study in the context of my Ph.D. studies.
In the focus of the study are knowledge workers, the multiple roles they take on during their regular work and the actions they perform during accomplishing their work. A knowledge worker is anyone who develops or uses knowledge in his or her daily working tasks. Furthermore we try to associate application types with the knowledge actions.
We would like to ask you for your participation in the study which will take approximately 25 minutes. Your participation is anonymous and all answers will be treated confidentially.
You can access the survey at http://bit.ly/KWRStudy
Please feel free to forward the link to the survey to your colleagues, retweet or blog about this call for participation.I count on the power of my social network…
We will keep you updated about the results of the study.
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Yesterday at the JTEL WinterSchool in Innsbruck, Erik Duval asked me
If you only could follow one person on Twitter, who would that be?
I gave my answer (which I cannot tell you here…) and thought it would be a cool thing to explore with a wider public. That’s why I put up a really simple questionnaire over at Google Spreadsheets and would be really happy if you could distribute it to your fellow Tweeple.
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I am very interested in which online tools are used by researches in different domains to stay up-to-date with the colleagues. In the TEL community for example many fellow researchers are on Twitter and Blog semi-regulary in their own or corporate blogs. In the context of my Ph.D. I am developing the model of Artefact-Actor-Networks (AANs) where online communication and cooperation channels are analyzed and used for enhancing group and knowledge awareness of group members. As the research community is one of the groups I am very interested in, I’d like to know which online tools you are using and which one we should consider as an additional data source for AANs. If I did not mention the tool you are using, please use the “other” option in the TwtPoll or comment on this post.
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We conducted another one of our Twitter surveys at the TNC2009. We received 45 full responses (and 19 responses not completly filled out), what marks the biggest response rate in all our surveys. Even if Twitter was only used as a side channel in the TNC2009 (we only saw 247 tweets from 24 users) the results show some interesting points. The results give new insight on pros and cons of using Twitter as communication channel in scientific conferences. What is somewhat surprising, is the fact that for the use case TNC2009 Twitter does not seem to be of special value. Let’s wait for the results of the ED-MEDIA survey. I guess for ED-MEDIA the responses will be very different.
So does the application possibility strongly depends on the people at the conference and the type of official incorporation in the conference communication?!
Here are some statistical data and voices from the attendees of the TNC2009:
Did you have a Twitter account before the TNC 2009 conference?
What was your main reason to use Twitter during the TNC 2009 conference? (multiple selections allowed)
Read more…
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We are looking for software teams that are willingly to take part in a short online survey on the use of means of communication in their daily project life. It does not matter if you are a large or small team, whether you are on site or distributed, whether you are an EU project, startup or large company.
With the survey we try to find out which means of communication are useful in specific situations of the development process, which means of communication are really used and how they support the problem solving in a team.
If you and your team are interested in taking part in the survey please contact me and I will send you a link to the survey together with a token that identifies your team. Of course we will share the results of the survey as soon as we have them here on the blog.
A note on privacy:
The survey will be an anonymous one. The record kept of your survey responses will not contain any identifying information about you unless a specific question in the survey will ask for this.
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There is another conference for which we are running a Twitter survey. It’s this year Edumedia conference in Salzburg. Please help us with our studies and answer the survey if you attended the Edumedia 2009 live or followed the Twitter stream online. We’re looking forward to your responses.
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We’re running a new survey on microblogging in conferences with Twitter. This time the conference was the TERENA Networking Conference 2009 (TNC2009) hosted by the University of Málaga. Thanks to Björn Hagemeier and Gyöngyi Horváth for being the mentors of the survey at the TNC2009.
I’m looking forward to the responses of your conference attendees.
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Our recent publication on how Twitter is used at conferences caused some stir (also here and here). We’re happy to get feedback on our thoughts and useful hints for further publications.
We plan to run our survey at other conferences in 2009 to obtain more data we can evaluate and make general statements on how to apply Microblogging at conferences.
If you use Twitter at your conference (or workshop) please let us know. We are looking for some survey mentors that state themself responsible for spreading the word about the survey at a specific conference. We would prepare the survey and send you a link, which you should distribute amongst the attendees. If you are interested, just let me know.
Edit: In the meantime there are still some more reviews of our article available. Thx for your feedback. See reviews here and here and here
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After the Prolearn Summer School 2008 at Macedonia I wrote a paper on how we experienced the use of Twitter during the event together with some colleagues (Cristina Costa, Martin Silliaots and Günter Beham). We got good feedback at the ECTEL 2008 conference and asked the question “How and why does people at conferences use Twitter?”. We asked Martin Ebner to join us in trying to answer this question and developed a generic survey in order to get responses from conference attendees.
Meanwhile we put up surveys for several conferences and get the first answers:
If you attended any of these conferences please answer the corresponding survey(s) and spread the word about it. We are interested in more conferences where Twitter played an important role. Please feel free to tell us about your experiences with Twitter during conferences and also give us hints to conferences, that used Twitter.
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