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/sets/72157620360742597/

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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

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/?tag=essconf09 Gillian at NGS: http://nationalgridservice.blogspot.com/2009/06/e-social-science-in-germany.html#links

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

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?

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 da... [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.

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 for th... [read more]

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?

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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... [read more]

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.

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.

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 ... [read more]

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

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...

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

Ron Seal

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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 e... [read more]

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

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.

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