Category Archives: blogs for research

Discussion about the use of blogs for research, such as soliciting and collecting user feedback for information architecture or human factors design analysis of Web sites or online software.

Collaborative reasoning with a social strategy

In my previous posts on the value of mental and physical models, I suggested that it is the dialog that we create between these two types of reasoning that helps us tackle the discovery of what is novel and complex: … Continue reading

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Riding the Crest of Change

In 1996, as I wrote the Introduction to a book that my co-author (Gene De Libero) and I would call Strategic Networking, I wanted to capture in words what I could about the innovation that was then in an early … Continue reading

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using blogs to promote traffic to a Web site

In this entry, I would like to consider the use of blogs as a marketing tool to promote traffic to a Web site, such as my own at http://www.programhouse.com The rationale for this strategy can be expressed as tenets of … Continue reading

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knowledge management

In this blog entry, I would like to open up discussion about the nature and management of one of our most valuable resources: knowledge. Although its nature and use can be quite elusive, the emerging field of knowledge management draws … Continue reading

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your thoughts about online research

In this blog entry, I would like to invite comments on the use of the Internet and the Web in support of any stage in empirical research: from finding a problem area and conducting a review of the literature to … Continue reading

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to blog or not to blog…

… is that the question? Perhaps Shakespeare’s Hamlet poses it better in the affirmative: “To be, or not to be: that is the question” Like Hamlet, I have reflected on existence, but in my case the existence of something I use for online communication, teaching, … Continue reading

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strategic management of technology innovations

I would like to open up discussion about something that is the heart of planned change in how we learn and work: strategic management of technology innovation. I welcome your thoughts about the nature of technology innovations (in general or … Continue reading

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user research with blogs

As an academic and consultant, I am interested in exploring Internet-based software that might support user research. To that end, I would like to invite discussion about the use of blogs for research, such as soliciting and collecting user feedback … Continue reading

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the business of blogs

To kick off discussion on the use of blogs for business and/or professional purposes, I would like to characterize Doc’s Blog on those terms. Although my initial intention was to use this blog for promoting discussion on the broad topic … Continue reading

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the specter of moderation

As I considered the nature of this blog, I was immediately confronted with the big question for anyone who ventures into the “read-write Web” and its ability to allow others to write to your Web pages: to what degree should … Continue reading

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