Mathemagenic

This is work-in-progress page - I’ll be updating it as I find pockets of time between writing PhD chapters.]

Focus

Blogging practices of knowledge workers, in relation to the knowledge work framework

Status

• submitting first draft of the dissertation as a whole in beginning of December 2008; hopefully will be finished with revising Jan 2009
• the status per chapter is in the TOC below - ask me if you want to read those with drafts ready (those are in a pretty good condition, but might have pieces of text that need more work)
• PhD defence is most likely to be somewhere in May-June 2009

Things you might want to check

• iceberg.telin.nl - official page for my PhD project at Telematica Instituut
  • Publications
  • Presentations
  • Work in progress
• PhD-related weblog posts - All (600+)
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Methodology
  • Chapter 3. Ideas
  • Chapter 4. Conversations
  • Chapter 5. Relations
  • Chapter 6. Microsoft
  • Chapter 7. Integration
  • PhD process

Dissertation structure (as of 11 November 2008)

1. Introduction [have to be heavily revised - don't ask]
   • Blogging in knowledge-intensive environments
   • Understanding knowledge work: the framework
   • Focus and contribution
   • Dissertation overview
2. Research approach [can share draft]
   • Interpretive qualitative research
   • Researching weblogs: artefacts and practices
   • Research choices: methods, participation, writing, ethics
   • Judging quality
3. Blogging PhD ideas [can share draft]
   • Useful lenses: PIM, GTD and advice on writing
   • Research approach
   • Results: weblog as a personal knowledge base
   • Results: from fuzzy feelings to finished results
   • Results: personal blogging practices in a context
   • Discussion
4. Conversations in KM blogger community [can share draft]
   • Weblogs as a conversational medium
   • Research approach
   • Results: Actionable Sense conversation
   • Results: conversations with self and others
   • Discussion
5. Networking practices of KM bloggers [will post draft pieces in my weblog beginning of Nov'08]
   • Networking practices of bloggers ?
   • Research approach
   • Results: participants and their networks
   • Results: managing relations
   • Results: networking practices in context
   • Discussion
6. Employee blogging at Microsoft [can share draft]
   • Employee blogging
   • Research approach
   • Results: context
   • Results: blogging practices
   • Results: tensions between personal and organisational perspectives
   • Discussion
7. Integration [to be written]
   • Conclusions: blogging practices of knowledge workers
   • Discussion: blogging as boundary practice
   • Implications
   • Reflections: researching weblogs and blogging research

This page has the following sub pages.

• Networking practices of KM bloggers

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