I have decided to get on and set-up my pilot questionnaire in order to establish a benchmark of behaviour from the pilot sites so that I can then see whether or not the work at the sites is having any effect. I plan to administer the same questionnaire to all stakeholder groups as I think …
Looking at the world with a social captial filter on we need to remember the three types of social captial – Bonding, Bridging and Linking (Putman). One of the notable features about most online communities is their homogeneity – ie their bonding capital. Given the need for formal democracy to be inclusive I need ways …
Still at it with the actual research question so am trying to come at it from a different angle. This post is as I was at the dentist earlier in the week and trying to explain what I was doing to Charlie (the dentist) as an avoidance technique – which is of course foolish as …
Another day, another book review…..I picked up the Pippa Norris book as there seemed to be some interesting parallels between what she was talking about in terms of Internet take up from third world countries as a way of looking at the problems of getting first world users to adopt technology for a specific purpose. …
I have been re-reading Howard Rheingold’s book on the virtual communities and wanted to save my observations while they are still fresh in my mind. Its brilliant book where his enthusiasm for the the ‘electronic frontier’ that the internet provides is palpable on every page. He is also eminently readable which is a welcome relief …
I need to actually define my research question so that I can get going on the research proposal (have had close encounter with an exam this week and intend to never ever leave something so acutely to the last minute again). I am currently looking at the following wording: “Is it possible to deliberately create …
The Citizenscape December project meeting went much better than I hoped with the balance being in favour of actual work rather than EU project talk. Main points are: We made some real progress with the actual content for the sites and I believe that if we can keep to the development schedule then we will …
This is a short note prior to a proper post but as we move forward with getting the Citizenscape sites actually up and running you can start to see why the idea of co-creation needs to be so strong in the citizenscape methodology. The Citizenscape sites will be containers for different types of widgets which …
The team is going to get together in December in Brighton and apart from finding somewhere really good to take them to dinner I want to be clear on the objectives for the meeting: There are as ever some EU project formalities which need to be gone over – not the least because we have a …
Well – end of the first sprint and things have gone really well (and as I write I realise how rare it is to be able to say this!). The agile process has given us much more focus and it is really good for giving a real sense of progress to a project. We have …