Thanks a lot for all your (and your teams) effort for organizing this conference! I think it was very well organized. Well done.
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Andy Sutton posted
Photos of Cologne
In case anybody is interested - Just some photos that I have taken while I am here. Not at the conference, just around the city.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yorkntu/...
Andy Sutton:
Hi Farzana,
I added them now! None that are embarrassing per se, and in many the people are blurred anyway.
I'm not sure what's possible - is there an easy way of getting my photos on or linked to your stream?
Andy
Farzana Latif:
Hi andy
Thats great! If you add the tag essconf09 to your images they should show up with the ones we have taken. Let me know if you need instructions
Farzana
Andy Sutton:
Aha! Thank you! Done now, Andy
Mon, Jul 6 at 8:53PM
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Farzana Latif posted
Blog Postings
I've noticed the following blog posts for the conference, if you have written a blog post or come across any, please add detail here:
Diederick de Vries:
http://www.diederickdevries.net/blog/...
Gillian at NGS: http://nationalgridservice.blogspot.c...
Andy Turner:
Hi, I wondered how best to register my blog/notes from this event. They can be found via the following URL and will probably evolve over the next few days as I tidy them up and remember more about the interactions that took place.
http://ur1.ca/5xtk
Fri, Jun 26 at 4:45PM
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Peter Halfpenny posted
grapevine versus twitter versus blogs
as we move towards the final session, which networking tools have proved most popular and which most effective? At a quick scan, grapevine seems to be in the lead. Any observations on this?
Fri, Jun 26 at 3:46PM
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Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen
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Paul Lambert
Thanks Paul, for chairing this morning's session where our presentation took place and your helpful comments.
Fri, Jun 26 at 2:42PM
Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen
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Farzana Latif
Thanks, Farzana for inviting me to the eSS conference social network on crowdvine. Great tool...
Fri, Jun 26 at 2:39PM
Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen
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Katy Middlebrough
Hi Katy, I've just god a comment from Meik about the good conference organization and I want to pass this on to you and Angelika. Well done!
Fri, Jun 26 at 2:35PM
Meik Poschen
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Hi Wolfgang, thank you, and many thanks for helping out! Also very well done with all your organisation with the conference, I enjoyed everything very much - especially the deserts yesterday at Rheinterassen.. ;-)
Fri, Jun 26 at 2:16PM
Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen
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Meik Poschen
Hello Meik,
good presentation that you gave - even with the problem of changing the slides.
Fri, Jun 26 at 11:51AM
Andre Somers
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For those interested in a demonstration of our toolkit: I have cancelled the scheduled lunch demo because no one will show up anyway as everyone will be enjoying their nice three-course lunch.
If you want, I am exited to demonstrate the tools to you personally in one of the other breaks. Simply find me, and I'll fold open my laptop...
Fri, Jun 26 at 11:00AM
Andy Sutton posted
Ethical online survey management tool
At the Ethics and Law workshop on Wednesday there was some interest expressed in a survey management tool that we (Kristan Hopkins Burke and I, we are both at this conference and on this network) are developing at Nottingham Trent University. The programming is not yet completed, but the idea is to take care of some ethical issues for academic researchers such as a forced informed consent stage and a mechanism for respondents to withdraw their...... [read more]
Chris Thorn:
I am very interested in this work. I have a number of colleagues who would also be interested. Will you also be sharing how this innovation is communicated to institutional research review (human subjects)?
Andy Sutton:
Will you be at the meal tonight Chris? Shall we find each other there to chat about this? If you are not going to be there perhaps tomorrow morning will be a good time?
Chris Thorn:
I will be at the dinner. My wife will be with me, but I think she would be interested as well. That sounds like a fine plan.
Thu, Jun 25 at 5:06PM
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Paul Lambert
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Kristan Hopkins Burke
Hi Kristan,
'the kinds of survey research you are interested in..' - it's mostly large scale sample surveys, e.g. government survyes, & especially for comparative research over time and between countries..
cheers, Paul
Thu, Jun 25 at 10:40AM
Nick Jankowski posted
reflecting on e-research & Workgroup 6
By all accounts, including my own, Workshop 6 (Imagining, Identifying, and Investigating e-Research) was a fantastic success, that quality being measured by the level of scholarly discourse. I enjoyed the day immensely, particularly the diversity of imaginings of what e-research is and might be. As facilitator of the event, my thanks to all that contributed.
For those that did not have opportunity to attend, all of the background materials ...... [read more]
Thu, Jun 25 at 9:31AM
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Peter Halfpenny posted
Workshop 3: Scientific Writing
Many of the comments on Meik Poschen's presentation were about the survey method used to gather evidence about UK university researchers' use of Web 2.0 services. What attracted attention especially was the low response rate (10%) achieved by an email solicitation to complete a web-based questionnaire. This is the usual level of response rate to such surveys. Is there a better way of collecting evidence for this study?
Julian Newman:
Why doesn't it like my mugshot????
Farzana Latif:
Hi Julian
Not sure why, come and see me at the conference registration desk and I will see if I can help!
Farzana
Peter Halfpenny:
All the evidence on email solicited web surveys is that response rates are very low. Although the usual mechanisms to drive up response rates might add a few percent, getting above 25% requires a lot of time and effort, and usually involves resort to snail mail advance notification or follow-up.
Similarly, collecting at least some evidence about non-respondents in order to estimate bias is time-consuming and difficult.
In these circumstances, the strategy adopted might be the best: weight the responses so that the sample distribution on socio-demographics matches the populations distribution as recorded in HESA figures, and limit the analysis to within-sample comparisons (eg between early adopters and non adopters).
Anyone got better ideas?
Wed, Jun 24 at 11:45PM
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Cornelius Puschmann posted
Posted my presentation "Discourse or document? Issues of adopting digital genres.."
Apologies if this is wrong "place" for doing so, but I've posted the slides for the presentation I held this morning to my blog and wanted to share the link with the other participants (and anyone else interested, of course):
http://blog.ynada.com/78
Thank you once more to Julian and Esther for organizing the workshop!
Farzana Latif:
Hi Cornelius
That's a perfect place to put this information.
If anyone else has any links to blog postings or documents to upload, feel free to create a new post.
Farzana
Peter Halfpenny:
Thanks Cornelius. I greatly enjoyed your talk and it's useful to have your slides available (almost) instantly.
Wed, Jun 24 at 11:32PM
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Kristan Hopkins Burke
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Andy Sutton
Hi, hope you are enjoying the conference!
Wed, Jun 24 at 10:32PM
Kenny Baird posted
USB
You should have received a USB with conference papers on when you registered. Unfortunately they are not compatible with Macs. So we have made the content available at: http://www.ncess.ac.uk/usb. So that you don't have to download one paper at a time, you can download the entire usb content here: http://www.ncess.ac.uk/resources/usb.zip.
Farzana Latif:
we've taken those responsible and shot them against the wall.
Wed, Jun 24 at 4:20PM
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Kristan Hopkins Burke
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Paul Lambert
Hi Paul,
i'd be keen to hear more about the kinds of survey research you are interested in. Best wishes, Kristan
Wed, Jun 24 at 3:43PM
Kristan Hopkins Burke
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Peter Halfpenny
Hi Peter,
It is good to be here in Cologne. Best wishes,
Kristan
Wed, Jun 24 at 3:39PM
Peter Halfpenny posted
Workshops must be very interesting
because nobody is using crowdvine at present, nor Twitter.
Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen:
At least the online connections of Maternushaus seem to be stable, so everybody can have a Wifi connection. From the IT Service I can say that everything seems to be ok, except for the videoconference issue. Sorry, that the workshop of Annamaria has to use a normal phone for one of the presenters...
Farzana Latif:
You can find an update on who has been tweeting here:
https://twitter.com/#search?q=essConf09
Farzana Latif:
Or here if you don't have a twitter account: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=essconf09
Wed, Jun 24 at 3:28PM
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Farzana Latif posted
Where are you staying?
Post where you have booked/plan to book your accomodation here . .
Marisa Ponti:
I stay at Hopper et cetera hotel in the centre, Looks cool.
Andy Hudson-Smith:
Staying at the Conti Hotel - now wondering if i should of gone to the Hopper - looks much nicer :)
Andy Turner:
I'm with you Andy... Trying to work out what time I've got to make a move to Maternushaus tomorrow. I may resort to a taxi...
Wed, Jun 24 at 12:59AM
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June posted
Conference Venue
http://www.maternushaus.de/
Hello all,
Just a comment to let you know that the Conference Venue appears as a church on most maps as it's owned by the catholic church.
June.
Diederick de Vries:
Also, if you're going by car, you'll need a green sticker to be allowed into down town Cologne.
See:
http://www.inter-auto.de/en/Location/Cologne___Low_Emission_Zone.html
Fri, Jun 19 at 10:29PM
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Kenny Baird posted
twitter: how can we use it
Ron Seal
Andy Turner:
Hi June et al,
I've not come across crowdvine before. It seems useful as an intermediary between other social networking services which I suspect most will use. I think it is a good idea, and I'm keen to see it work :-)
What I have started doing in events this year is registering my blog about an event on identi.ca on which I have an account on which forwards to Twitter. Then, if I have something interactive that I want to post I also feed via identi.ca to Twitter hoping this is a good channel. I have experience of this working, but especially the Twitter channel I have found can get very noisey and sometimes I have not worked out a good way to filter it and thus it has not worked for in terms of the interaction I'd hoped to use it for...
An additional point to make about Twitter is that the posts are not stored for a very long time, so they are not a good reference source.
It is good that there is a tag to start with. It might also be good to have a recommended way to extend this tag for particular sessions (i.e. append the session code to the conference tag). People can then register with others and communicate interactively by keeping an eye on that specific tag.
Marisa Ponti:
Hi Farzana,
It says that the page does not exist.
Farzana Latif:
Hi Marisa,
Thanks for pointing this out. The correct address is: http://twitter.com/essconf09
Farzana
Fri, Jun 19 at 8:04PM
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June posted
Conference Packs
The conference folders have arrived, and they're the popular fold-over kind like we had last year. There's still a chance for other parties to sponsor an insert (if you're quick), drop Katy Middlebrough a line if you haven't done so already.
Mon, Jun 8 at 12:43PM
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Farzana Latif posted
Conference tag: #essconf09
Do you use a Blog, Twitter or maybe Flickr?
When referring to the 5th International Conference in e-Social Science please add the following tag: #essconf09
Farzana
Kenny Baird:
I am in the lead of commentors
Tue, May 19 at 10:49AM
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