Blog networking study: an overview

As part of my PhD research I studied (blog) networking practices of KM bloggers (~those who write on KM-related topics). Turning the results into an academic text would take a while, so I think it make a lot of sense to share draft results online. This post is here to provide an overview of what is coming, I’ll add links and probably edit it over time.

[If you don't feel like reading everything you should probably wait for the summary of the results and parts of the discussion (should take a couple of weeks). If you want a more polished scientific version you'll have to wait for the dissertation to be finished (hopefully somewhere early spring). A publication is likely to take even longer.]

• Study background
  • Links to interview summaries and background info on the interviews
  • Networking practices of KM bloggers (study overview for the participants)
  • On challenges of publishing interview summaries online
• Results
  • Participants and their networks
  • Finding and being found
  • Getting to know others from a distance
  • Bonding through interaction
  • Getting things done
  • Staying in touch
  • Dealing with a network expansion and filtering information it brings
  • Presenting oneself trough blogging
    • Weblog as a backstage: performance is counterproductive
  • Choosing channels
• Random pieces from the discussion of the results
  • Non-personal relations and lurking
  • Personal relations
  • Publishing vs. interaction
  • Latent ties
• Kind of executive summary

Update: most of it is now in the Chapter 5. of my dissertation. I’m not 100% happy with it and hoping to rework it into a paper.

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