Mike - thank you for the tip with the Webinar! I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the talk with about 64 other participants around the world - including 'Guam' somewhere in the pacific ocean. It was actually my first time of a proper Webinar.
The topic was "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL NETWORKS AND E-DATING: HISTORY, PROBLEMS AND THE POLITICS OF ELECTRONICALLY MEDIATED ENVIRONMENTS" by Celia Romm Livermore.
She checked with the participants who was using facebook, MySpace, Secondlife and Youtube. In this group most of the people used facebook, hardly anyone secondlife.
Her definition for online communities: Online communities that focus on building and verifying social network for whatever purpose - the rise of online communities was a social phenomenon
she categorised the communities as "business service"
* blogging / video service
* group creating service
* virtual consumer communities
* e-dating
She differentiated between 4 places on the axis that defined the nature of the relationship. In the bottom half 'the company' offers space for connecting, but it doesn't get involved. Revenue is generated by advertising. On the top half of the axis 'the company' offers matching services, revenue is generated by offering a service e.g e-dating. I'll show the diagram once I get the presentation.
She explained that Secondlife doesn't fit this categorisation.
She moved on to online dating - where apparently males and females have very different experiences as they found out with a diary study of 17 people. According to her there are more males, than females on online dating sites. Males are more active and aggressive in contacting females. The transition from virtual to face-to-face meetings is very difficult; some men never make the transition.
She continued describing the differences between real life environments and virtual environments and how there is a gap between expectations of truthfulness. The gap is the highest in a communicating environment from one person to another. The gap of expectations is the lowest on a market place - basically people expect to 'ripped off' on a market place face-to-face as well as virtually (e.g. ebay)
She finished on the concept of e-politics and how it accelerated with the event of online communities. She was running out of time then.
I'll check her book out later.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
new survey
Hello,
I rebuilt the survey using surveymonkey. It allows some simple logic, but the questions with logic always needs to be placed at the end of a page. And annoyingly they don't allow bolding of words and I'm not able to place a link in descriptive text (only in questions) :-(
Have a look and let me know what you think - I'm not sure if I have solved the networking site questions in the best way. I could also use a matrix like I did for page 4 (Internet access) - or do you think that's too complicated?
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=JLoIwWOUDjw_2fNJnksDDd2Q_3d_3d
For some strange reason I don't seem to able to access my googlemail account at the moment, so I'm writing from here.
I rebuilt the survey using surveymonkey. It allows some simple logic, but the questions with logic always needs to be placed at the end of a page. And annoyingly they don't allow bolding of words and I'm not able to place a link in descriptive text (only in questions) :-(
Have a look and let me know what you think - I'm not sure if I have solved the networking site questions in the best way. I could also use a matrix like I did for page 4 (Internet access) - or do you think that's too complicated?
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=JLoIwWOUDjw_2fNJnksDDd2Q_3d_3d
For some strange reason I don't seem to able to access my googlemail account at the moment, so I'm writing from here.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Author status works now
Hello Marianne
As you see, authoring works for me now. Thank you for fixing it.
Sounds like a good conversation at CTE. I shall be very interested to see their report. Did you discover what pays for CTE?
Stephen
As you see, authoring works for me now. Thank you for fixing it.
Sounds like a good conversation at CTE. I shall be very interested to see their report. Did you discover what pays for CTE?
Stephen
Monday, February 16, 2009
My visit at Contact-the-Elderly
I had a lovely chat with Marie - the communications manager at CTE.
This is how CTE works:
Every month on a Sunday afternoon, up to 8 people come together for a tea party. There is the host (a volunteer), 2 drivers (again volunteers) and up to 5 people over 75 years. The elderly get to know the driver very well. In general volunteers stay for a long time with CTE because they build friendships. This all takes place locally. Marie emphasized the aspect of 'community' and the local area.
There is always a coordinator of each group who contacts the development officer for updates. CTE has currently 16 development officers and 350 groups.
Who are the elderly who take part?
80% are 80 years and older, they spent a lot of time at home, have no family or family lives far away, they go out about 2 twice a week (at most), friends left or passed away, majority are women, have some kind of disabilities (sight, wheelchair, hearing)
It's a big step for them to get in contact with CTE
How does CTE get in contact with the elderly people?
CTE gets mainly referrals from social services (the most)*, hospitals, district nurses, other charities (lots from age concern)
Referrals from family friends
They distribute leaflets with mobile libraries, meals on wheels
*social services deals mainly with cases of emergency and no prevention, therefore they like to refer early to other charities
What is the registration process?
Once an initial contact is established the older person needs to fill in a contact form (they provide assistance if older people have problems filling in the form). With this form CTE assesses the social life of the person. They check with the development officers about suitable groups. the older person receives a letter informing them that the group co-ordinator will be contact.
how does CTE know their activities work?
Marie sent me a survey report with interesting results and demographics. Overall, the participants have a feeling of improvement.
Who are the volunteers?
Marie explained that several of her volunteers are between 65 and 75 years. Some of them also use email to stay in contact. Marie sent me a contact for a volunteer who currently writes a blog. http://theagepage.typepad.com/
The online future?
Marie mentioned how the Saga forum has increasing membership numbers. She is open to 'online' ideas as more people will be computer literate and 'online' is another way to communicate. She interested in learning more about my research.
This is how CTE works:
Every month on a Sunday afternoon, up to 8 people come together for a tea party. There is the host (a volunteer), 2 drivers (again volunteers) and up to 5 people over 75 years. The elderly get to know the driver very well. In general volunteers stay for a long time with CTE because they build friendships. This all takes place locally. Marie emphasized the aspect of 'community' and the local area.
There is always a coordinator of each group who contacts the development officer for updates. CTE has currently 16 development officers and 350 groups.
Who are the elderly who take part?
80% are 80 years and older, they spent a lot of time at home, have no family or family lives far away, they go out about 2 twice a week (at most), friends left or passed away, majority are women, have some kind of disabilities (sight, wheelchair, hearing)
It's a big step for them to get in contact with CTE
How does CTE get in contact with the elderly people?
CTE gets mainly referrals from social services (the most)*, hospitals, district nurses, other charities (lots from age concern)
Referrals from family friends
They distribute leaflets with mobile libraries, meals on wheels
*social services deals mainly with cases of emergency and no prevention, therefore they like to refer early to other charities
What is the registration process?
Once an initial contact is established the older person needs to fill in a contact form (they provide assistance if older people have problems filling in the form). With this form CTE assesses the social life of the person. They check with the development officers about suitable groups. the older person receives a letter informing them that the group co-ordinator will be contact.
how does CTE know their activities work?
Marie sent me a survey report with interesting results and demographics. Overall, the participants have a feeling of improvement.
Who are the volunteers?
Marie explained that several of her volunteers are between 65 and 75 years. Some of them also use email to stay in contact. Marie sent me a contact for a volunteer who currently writes a blog. http://theagepage.typepad.com/
The online future?
Marie mentioned how the Saga forum has increasing membership numbers. She is open to 'online' ideas as more people will be computer literate and 'online' is another way to communicate. She interested in learning more about my research.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Draft survey
Hello!
I put a draft survey together to collect data on context and online usage patterns for the age group.
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/95595/survey-online-usage-patterns
Mike - the intro letter is based on what Irena used in the SPARC survey - so it should feel familiar
I thought of introducing us as a 'Group'. Let me know how you feel about it.
Thanks for your thoughts - in advance!
Marianne
I put a draft survey together to collect data on context and online usage patterns for the age group.
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/95595/survey-online-usage-patterns
Mike - the intro letter is based on what Irena used in the SPARC survey - so it should feel familiar
I thought of introducing us as a 'Group'. Let me know how you feel about it.
Thanks for your thoughts - in advance!
Marianne
Monday, February 2, 2009
Contact the elderly
Hello,
I expect you all have received an email inviting you to look at this blog. Let me know if it worked.
Have you heard of the "Contact the elderly" volunteer organisation before?
http://www.contact-the-elderly.org.uk/index.php
They seem to be a good place to get in contact with to find people over 75 years old. I assume some of them will have Internet experience.
Do you know anyone who volunteers with them?
thanks
M
I expect you all have received an email inviting you to look at this blog. Let me know if it worked.
Have you heard of the "Contact the elderly" volunteer organisation before?
http://www.contact-the-elderly.org.uk/index.php
They seem to be a good place to get in contact with to find people over 75 years old. I assume some of them will have Internet experience.
Do you know anyone who volunteers with them?
thanks
M
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