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Last year when I attended the Data for Good Conference there were several hundred nonprofits interested in data in the room and there is a whole online community focusing on little, medium, and big data at Markets for Good. The Playbook offers some excellent practical tips on how to design and implement surveys and focus groups, one of the most common methods many nonprofits use to collect data. Within the same group at different points in time. MORE
ii) Focus groups are fatally biased buy the facilitator within 15 minutes. Luckily I had my Yellow Fever vaccination certificate with me this morning or I might have had a problem getting through immigration at Brisbane. It turns out a visit to Latin or Central America, even if you only went to a major city, creates this requirement. I didn't know but thanks to a recent visit to West Africa I had one in the travel wallet. MORE
In it the authors note: Based on qualitative data gathered from focus groups, narrative interviews, and target drawings, the analysis describes how bullying can feel like a battle, water torture, nightmare, or noxious substance. Corporate bullies. I’m fed up with them. In 2006, Sarah J. Tracy, Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik and Jess K. MORE
Too much focus on OPEN at this conference? With students focus groups just don’t work. I missed the first talk: I have put in some tweets. A full summary of the last two talks is below. MORE
It is persistent rather than a one-off survey or focus group. As I will be running a Crowdsourcing for Marketing workshop in New York this Thursday, I was keen to attend the Marketing session at CrowdConf today. Here are brief notes from the speakers through what was an excellent panel discussion: Neil Perry, CEO, Poptent. A key to getting quality contribution is giving education. They are junior filmmakers, so they want tips, contributed by veterans. MORE
What really incensed me was the news on focus groups conducted by the Tory party. According to the Independent they have been running video tapes of the Ed Millibrand, Leader of the Opposition and the Labour Party to groups of voters and have discovered that the long people listen to him the more they thinks he makes sense. Luckily I attempted an on line checkin yesterday as otherwise I would not have discovered that I had been booked to return on Sunday rather than Saturday. MORE
This time around though, since it is a company issued 3G USB modem I was re-directed to @movistarpro_es as a focused group working on these issues for knowledge workers. In the past you may remember how time and time again I have mentioned how one of the main use cases from a successful Social Business would eventually be that one of customer service and customer support , although over the course of time you may have noticed how my experiences have been very lacking in this regard. MORE
This year’s study had more than 6,500 Millennials, 3 focus groups and 90 nonprofit professionals respond/participate. MCON 2012, a virtual summit to help nonprofit leaders learn how to engage the Millennial generation as donors, takes place online on July 19. The schedule features an impressive list of Millennials and others who are experts on this topic. MORE
The way people signify what their story means will give us quantitative data, as will which images were chose by which age groups or other demographic criteria. Too many surveys and focus groups are one off sessions or staccato events with significant gaps between data capture points. Can you think of societies, pressure groups and other third parties who might be interested in participating (we can capture some narrative material for them in parallel). MORE
My real concern here is the focus on communication, principally by leaders. focused on service to society, competitively differentiated not by a focus on personal gain, profit etc. In contrast with a populist approach which had no where to go when focus groups failed to give clear guidance. I only met Rosabeth Moss Kanter once when we both spoke at a conference in Boston many years ago, along with Larry Prusak. MORE
They don’t have to run all their tweets through focus groups. The always thoughtful Terry Heaton [twitter: TerryHeaton ] has posted a provocative thesis, which is expressed in the post’s title: “ How Brands Can Behave as People (And Why They Should).” ” Terry writes: Futurist Stowe Boyd believes that we’ve entered a stage of “ social business ” in which “brands will try to look and feel as much like people as possible, online.” MORE
Yes, the video clip may well be oriented towards communicators and all, but if you take a closer look, beyond that initial focus group, you would be able to see how plenty of its key learnings would also be relevant for everyone who is involved with social tools. MORE
Any tips or recommended resources for facilitating hybrid online/phone focus groups with smaller groups (5-15 max)? Also, any recommendations re: optimal group size for this sort of interaction? If the group is all online – you are lucky. The most challenging groups are mixed online and offline. 3) Group size issues are similar to those F2F. Consider focusing the domain in a way that carries relevance for people NOW. MORE
Focus groups have been quite receptive to the free Wi-Fi and local content customers will get in return, says the CEO. Starbucks Announces Free Wi-Fi, Proprietary Content Network , the headline says, in a story by Eliot Van Buskirk in Wired. Some quotage: “Free Wi-Fi is in my mind just the price of admission — we want to create … new sources of content that you can only get at Starbucks,” chairman and president and CEO Howard Schulz told the Wired Business Conference. MORE
The study included focus groups and quantitative research to compare office resident, home, and mobile knowledge workers. We are in the midst of one of the greatest eras of technological, social and cultural change. Today, mobile and other technologies keep us constantly connected, and this shift has affected how we interact with our families, how we spend our leisure time, and naturally, how we work. MORE
At the “Learning in Public” breakout session, Beth Kanter, Jared Raynor (TCC Group) and Kathy Reich (David and Lucile Packard Foundation) sharing the Packard Foundation’s experience with learning in public. The foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program evaluation was conducted very publicly, using social media, focus groups, a wiki – lots of mechanisms for getting stakeholders to help interpret the data and give input on the program. Flickr Photo by Zen. MORE
The media focused on Taksim Square in Istanbul, but the action was actually in Gezi park. When it broke up, the govt mostly decided to treat the protestors the way GW Bush treated the anti-Iraq War protests: not as a threat, but more like merely a focus group. Media dependency brings distortion, censorship, and counter propaganda — but also dominance, focus, and singular narrative. Q: You said there were about 150 social groups involved in the movement. MORE
One of the things I would be really interested to find out is just how much money they are spending on questionnaires and focus groups and to what effect? I've had several meetings with people in local and provincial government over the last few days. Everyone seems to know they don't work, but the orthodoxy says they have to be done. MORE
If I was going to create a google + brand page for a nonprofit, I would probably focus on using to cultivate a small sub-set of my community that I knew was already using Google + – perhaps use it as a focus group to learn and figure out what might make sense. Or I might set up a circle with peer organizations and use that to as a learning group to experiment and learn in real time about google +. MORE
I sat in on a twitter chat yesterday, #DLNChat, that is a higher ed tech focused group (run by EdSurge ). Higher ed focuses too much on knowledge, and uses assignments that don’t resemble the job activities. The topic was the link between higher ed and job skills, and I was a wee bit cynical. While I think there are great possibilities, the current state of the art leaves a lot to be desired. MORE
It's taken a bit of time but we are starting to make breakthroughs in marketing with one expert suggesting that SenseMaker® will replace focus groups and polling, although he did add that vested interests may try and prevent that! That is something you don't find with collections of stories/anecdotes through direct questions and workshops which really don't move the agenda on that much from focus groups. MORE
You could conduct focus groups, instructor-led learning sessions, widget/gadget/service demonstrations, or through the use of contests a way to recognize customers or at least appreciate their business. You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: For the past two and half years at my real job as the head of learning and collaboration, we’ve been early adopters of a virtual world product called AvayaLive Engage , developed by a company named Avaya. MORE
In it the authors note: Based on qualitative data gathered from focus groups, narrative interviews, and target drawings, the analysis describes how bullying can feel like a battle, water torture, nightmare, or noxious substance. February 24th, 2016 is #PinkShirtDay. It’s when sane people come together to make aware and to prevent less than sane people from bullying, be it at school, the workplace, the neighbourhood, the hockey rink, and all points in between. MORE
Cost of traditional market research such as focus groups and surveys. A major challenge for organizations that are considering internal social media initiatives is that a business case including a financial justification is frequently required. To be frank, I think ROI calculations for social initiatives are in most cases a waste of time, because so many of the benefits and costs are unknowable before the initiative. MORE
After some focus groups and research with his students, some themes emerged. networking, small groups, projects, etc. Response: we did focus groups, we did a survey – I didn’t see any pushback. Summary of a presentation by Derek Bruff, Vanderbilt University, @derekbruff We have had 173,810 students enrolled in VU’s five courses as of March 27, 2013. MORE
They use a variety of methods including focus groups, surveys, and one-on-one conversations. Through focus groups, they asked participants about the consistently high scores. New Door is providing more meal-replacement types of food (canned soup, ramen noodles) to their youth and making things more “fun” by sponsoring field trips among groups of peers in response to their feedback. Photo by LIFT. MORE
Mr. Shyamalan, your focus group results are in. Last night, we went to the movies, and the small crowd in the theater watched a really good trailer. People trapped in an elevator. Lights out. A shriek. Lights on. Someone’s been wounded. A confrontation. A flash. The elevator jerks. A sudden noise. The trailer completely shut off the pre-show banter around us. Then a title screen came up, simple white lettering on a black background: “From the mind of M. MORE
So, you must have an outcome or result identified and know how each metric you pick helps you take a step towards that outcome. The goal of my Facebook page is serve as a focus group to listen to nonprofit practitioners and their ideas, concerns, and needs to use social media effectively. [link]. MORE
If firms focus on these additional profit opportunities, they will make a lot more money and society will be better off than it otherwise would be. and a wholesale revolution in management thinking focused on "delighting customers" and redefining managerial roles, coordination mechansisms, values and communications so that everyone and everything in the firm is oriented towards accomplishing this goal. MORE
No more “thinking a reflection of the moon in the pond is the sun” proxy approaches, no more focus groups, no more control samples. The esteemed JP Rangaswami , who was at the very front of creating Enterprise 2.0 at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and is now at Salesforce.com , has just written a compelling post Thinking about the Social Enterprise , in which he distills the essence of social business. MORE
We created a book - the focus groups came back: "Nobody knows what ''lexicon'' means." This is a summary of a talk at the Hewlett Grantees'' Meeting, San Francisco, March 25, 2015. Errors (and typos, etc) are my own. Douglas Gayeton Lexicon of Sustainability [link] Our food system is opaque. We asked people to develop a lexicon around food sources We started with the word ''sustainability''. That is one of the most opaque words. MORE
Likewise, Steve dreamed up the music our society wanted to listen to next, devoid of focus groups or reviews. The Fab Four; Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were a band like no other. As someone born in 1971, they are my generation’s Fab Four. Steve, the raw but brilliant and creative ring leader was Lennon. Bill, the melodic but safe visionary was McCartney. George matched his namesake with ingenuity & worldly thinking. MORE
This was uttered, according to Jane Buckingham (and reported in a 2008 Brian Stelter NY Times article ) by a college student in a focus group. In my view, the quote would be more accurate if it read, “If the news is interesting to my social group, it will find me.&# The Reddit community constitutes itself through a set of references that belong to a particular group and that exclude those who just don’t get nods to Robocop. I’ve come to love Reddit. MORE
It's the sort of failure experts could have avoided with non-expert opinion (and it's why companies use devices such as focus groups to ensure they don't make similar mistakes in the future). In an article last year (and soon-to-be book ) Tom Nichols complained about the new relativism brought about by Wikipedia and Google and bemoaning the declining authority of the expert. MORE
In a focus group, a student said s/he went to international relations class and there was an assignment on how Socrates would be relevant to a problem today. The old days of dreading group projects are ending; satudents sometimes post their topics on Facebook to elicit reactions and help. MORE
Through focus groups, interactive online polling and voting, the 1,000 were whittled down to a final four. In 1973, Peter Drucker stated in his book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, “Management is not culture-free, that is, part of the world of nature. It is a social function. It is, therefore, both socially accountable and culturally embedded.”. MORE
You could conduct focus groups, instructor-led learning sessions, widget/gadget/service demonstrations, or through the use of contests a way to recognize customers or at least appreciate their business. For the past two and half years at my real job as the head of learning and collaboration, we’ve been early adopters of a virtual world product called AvayaLive Engage , developed by a company named Avaya. MORE
We were part of an email thread with a small group of individuals offered input on community management systems and facilitator recruiting resources. At the time, we invited Internet thought-leaders to participate in an email list discussion, focusing on interactive tools. Diane’s company was involved in one of the early Internet focus group efforts with its Hallmark Moms Club. Flickr Photo BirkgetKing. MORE
In addition to the countless lunches, coffees, roundtables, focus groups and other opportunities for feedback and discussion I engaged in I also dug into the evidence on the impacts of capacity building on organizations. If organizations are focused on those types of measurable results then why aren’t investments in organizations focused on helping groups achieve the durable results they define? MORE
"The notion of students as change agents is a relatively new concpt." -- Malcom Ryan Rachel Winston How we can shape the development of a new culture of learning by creating a new partnership between students and educators. political view of the prevailing culture 1. why NUS thinks is an ideal model 2. how you in your role can build these partnerships 3. MORE
Using LinkedIn For Travel and Meetings Breaking the Ice at a Meeting with LinkedIn Using LinkedIn to Fill Out Your Business Trip Using LinkedIn for Travel Connecting with People in Your Network When Traveling Groups on LinkedIn 5 ways to get more from your LinkedIn Groups 5 Tips for Creating, Promoting and Managing a LinkedIn Group What are They Talking About? LinkedIn e-Learning Groups) – These are some of the learning focused groups on LinkedIn. MORE
By moving the service reps out of their isolated cubicles and bringing them together in shared work spaces, where a group of six or seven ICS staffers would be in constant contact with one another. Not focus groups. That group prefers to rely on experimental data, not designers, to guide its decisions. Tweet Here are some of the things that were shared via Twitter this past week. MORE
Although originally a behaviourist, he became deeply involved in social psychology at the level of small group interactions and eventually became director of the Center for Group Dynamics at MIT. Lewin drew on ideas from group psychotherapy that had been around for years but formalised them into a specific and brief focused group activity. Practically, this means that there is an explicit rule that everyone agrees to at the start of the group. MORE
ITU-T Focus Group on IdM and subsequent activity. ID-Legal Workingn group at Identity Commons. Kids Online Working group at Identity Commons. UserCentric Health Working group at Identity Commons. The Internet Identity Workshop , aka IIW, started as the Identity Gang way back in ‘05, and has since grown to become a fixture event in the calendars of many developers and other folks supportive of development work toward working user-driven identity systems. MORE
Focus Group Related Topics Dave Snowden
JANUARY 29, 2009
One of the things I would be really interested to find out is just how much money they are spending on questionnaires and focus groups and to what effect? I've had several meetings with people in local and provincial government over the last few days. Everyone seems to know they don't work, but the orthodoxy says they have to be done.
Dave Snowden
JANUARY 25, 2011
It's taken a bit of time but we are starting to make breakthroughs in marketing with one expert suggesting that SenseMaker® will replace focus groups and polling, although he did add that vested interests may try and prevent that! That is something you don't find with collections of stories/anecdotes through direct questions and workshops which really don't move the agenda on that much from focus groups.
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David Weinberger
AUGUST 20, 2010
Mr. Shyamalan, your focus group results are in. Last night, we went to the movies, and the small crowd in the theater watched a really good trailer. People trapped in an elevator. Lights out. A shriek. Lights on. Someone’s been wounded. A confrontation. A flash. The elevator jerks. A sudden noise. The trailer completely shut off the pre-show banter around us. Then a title screen came up, simple white lettering on a black background: “From the mind of M.
Dan Pontefract
APRIL 3, 2013
In it the authors note: Based on qualitative data gathered from focus groups, narrative interviews, and target drawings, the analysis describes how bullying can feel like a battle, water torture, nightmare, or noxious substance. Corporate bullies. I’m fed up with them. In 2006, Sarah J. Tracy, Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik and Jess K.
Dan Pontefract
MAY 21, 2012
You could conduct focus groups, instructor-led learning sessions, widget/gadget/service demonstrations, or through the use of contests a way to recognize customers or at least appreciate their business. You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: For the past two and half years at my real job as the head of learning and collaboration, we’ve been early adopters of a virtual world product called AvayaLive Engage , developed by a company named Avaya.
Dan Pontefract
OCTOBER 5, 2011
Likewise, Steve dreamed up the music our society wanted to listen to next, devoid of focus groups or reviews. The Fab Four; Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were a band like no other. As someone born in 1971, they are my generation’s Fab Four. Steve, the raw but brilliant and creative ring leader was Lennon. Bill, the melodic but safe visionary was McCartney. George matched his namesake with ingenuity & worldly thinking.
Dan Pontefract
OCTOBER 17, 2013
Through focus groups, interactive online polling and voting, the 1,000 were whittled down to a final four. In 1973, Peter Drucker stated in his book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, “Management is not culture-free, that is, part of the world of nature. It is a social function. It is, therefore, both socially accountable and culturally embedded.”.
Trends in the Living Networks
OCTOBER 23, 2012
It is persistent rather than a one-off survey or focus group. As I will be running a Crowdsourcing for Marketing workshop in New York this Thursday, I was keen to attend the Marketing session at CrowdConf today. Here are brief notes from the speakers through what was an excellent panel discussion: Neil Perry, CEO, Poptent. A key to getting quality contribution is giving education. They are junior filmmakers, so they want tips, contributed by veterans.
Dan Pontefract
MAY 21, 2012
You could conduct focus groups, instructor-led learning sessions, widget/gadget/service demonstrations, or through the use of contests a way to recognize customers or at least appreciate their business. For the past two and half years at my real job as the head of learning and collaboration, we’ve been early adopters of a virtual world product called AvayaLive Engage , developed by a company named Avaya.
Dave Snowden
JUNE 1, 2013
What really incensed me was the news on focus groups conducted by the Tory party. According to the Independent they have been running video tapes of the Ed Millibrand, Leader of the Opposition and the Labour Party to groups of voters and have discovered that the long people listen to him the more they thinks he makes sense. Luckily I attempted an on line checkin yesterday as otherwise I would not have discovered that I had been booked to return on Sunday rather than Saturday.
Dave Snowden
AUGUST 4, 2014
ii) Focus groups are fatally biased buy the facilitator within 15 minutes. Luckily I had my Yellow Fever vaccination certificate with me this morning or I might have had a problem getting through immigration at Brisbane. It turns out a visit to Latin or Central America, even if you only went to a major city, creates this requirement. I didn't know but thanks to a recent visit to West Africa I had one in the travel wallet.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
APRIL 3, 2013
After some focus groups and research with his students, some themes emerged. networking, small groups, projects, etc. Response: we did focus groups, we did a survey – I didn’t see any pushback. Summary of a presentation by Derek Bruff, Vanderbilt University, @derekbruff We have had 173,810 students enrolled in VU’s five courses as of March 27, 2013.
Steve Denning
JANUARY 6, 2011
If firms focus on these additional profit opportunities, they will make a lot more money and society will be better off than it otherwise would be. and a wholesale revolution in management thinking focused on "delighting customers" and redefining managerial roles, coordination mechansisms, values and communications so that everyone and everything in the firm is oriented towards accomplishing this goal.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Too much focus on OPEN at this conference? With students focus groups just don’t work. I missed the first talk: I have put in some tweets. A full summary of the last two talks is below.
David Weinberger
MARCH 7, 2013
They don’t have to run all their tweets through focus groups. The always thoughtful Terry Heaton [twitter: TerryHeaton ] has posted a provocative thesis, which is expressed in the post’s title: “ How Brands Can Behave as People (And Why They Should).” ” Terry writes: Futurist Stowe Boyd believes that we’ve entered a stage of “ social business ” in which “brands will try to look and feel as much like people as possible, online.”
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
Cost of traditional market research such as focus groups and surveys. A major challenge for organizations that are considering internal social media initiatives is that a business case including a financial justification is frequently required. To be frank, I think ROI calculations for social initiatives are in most cases a waste of time, because so many of the benefits and costs are unknowable before the initiative.
Luis Suarez
AUGUST 1, 2011
Yes, the video clip may well be oriented towards communicators and all, but if you take a closer look, beyond that initial focus group, you would be able to see how plenty of its key learnings would also be relevant for everyone who is involved with social tools.
Dan Pontefract
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
In it the authors note: Based on qualitative data gathered from focus groups, narrative interviews, and target drawings, the analysis describes how bullying can feel like a battle, water torture, nightmare, or noxious substance. February 24th, 2016 is #PinkShirtDay. It’s when sane people come together to make aware and to prevent less than sane people from bullying, be it at school, the workplace, the neighbourhood, the hockey rink, and all points in between.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 5, 2011
No more “thinking a reflection of the moon in the pond is the sun” proxy approaches, no more focus groups, no more control samples. The esteemed JP Rangaswami , who was at the very front of creating Enterprise 2.0 at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and is now at Salesforce.com , has just written a compelling post Thinking about the Social Enterprise , in which he distills the essence of social business.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
MARCH 25, 2015
We created a book - the focus groups came back: "Nobody knows what ''lexicon'' means." This is a summary of a talk at the Hewlett Grantees'' Meeting, San Francisco, March 25, 2015. Errors (and typos, etc) are my own. Douglas Gayeton Lexicon of Sustainability [link] Our food system is opaque. We asked people to develop a lexicon around food sources We started with the word ''sustainability''. That is one of the most opaque words.
Harold Jarche
JULY 29, 2011
By moving the service reps out of their isolated cubicles and bringing them together in shared work spaces, where a group of six or seven ICS staffers would be in constant contact with one another. Not focus groups. That group prefers to rely on experimental data, not designers, to guide its decisions. Tweet Here are some of the things that were shared via Twitter this past week.
Luis Suarez
JULY 15, 2012
This time around though, since it is a company issued 3G USB modem I was re-directed to @movistarpro_es as a focused group working on these issues for knowledge workers. In the past you may remember how time and time again I have mentioned how one of the main use cases from a successful Social Business would eventually be that one of customer service and customer support , although over the course of time you may have noticed how my experiences have been very lacking in this regard.
Doc Searls
JUNE 15, 2010
Focus groups have been quite receptive to the free Wi-Fi and local content customers will get in return, says the CEO. Starbucks Announces Free Wi-Fi, Proprietary Content Network , the headline says, in a story by Eliot Van Buskirk in Wired. Some quotage: “Free Wi-Fi is in my mind just the price of admission — we want to create … new sources of content that you can only get at Starbucks,” chairman and president and CEO Howard Schulz told the Wired Business Conference.
Beth Kanter
AUGUST 19, 2013
We were part of an email thread with a small group of individuals offered input on community management systems and facilitator recruiting resources. At the time, we invited Internet thought-leaders to participate in an email list discussion, focusing on interactive tools. Diane’s company was involved in one of the early Internet focus group efforts with its Hallmark Moms Club. Flickr Photo BirkgetKing.
Beth Kanter
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
If I was going to create a google + brand page for a nonprofit, I would probably focus on using to cultivate a small sub-set of my community that I knew was already using Google + – perhaps use it as a focus group to learn and figure out what might make sense. Or I might set up a circle with peer organizations and use that to as a learning group to experiment and learn in real time about google +.
David Weinberger
AUGUST 13, 2011
This was uttered, according to Jane Buckingham (and reported in a 2008 Brian Stelter NY Times article ) by a college student in a focus group. In my view, the quote would be more accurate if it read, “If the news is interesting to my social group, it will find me.&# The Reddit community constitutes itself through a set of references that belong to a particular group and that exclude those who just don’t get nods to Robocop. I’ve come to love Reddit.
Mind Hacks
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Although originally a behaviourist, he became deeply involved in social psychology at the level of small group interactions and eventually became director of the Center for Group Dynamics at MIT. Lewin drew on ideas from group psychotherapy that had been around for years but formalised them into a specific and brief focused group activity. Practically, this means that there is an explicit rule that everyone agrees to at the start of the group.
Beth Kanter
DECEMBER 5, 2016
Last year when I attended the Data for Good Conference there were several hundred nonprofits interested in data in the room and there is a whole online community focusing on little, medium, and big data at Markets for Good. The Playbook offers some excellent practical tips on how to design and implement surveys and focus groups, one of the most common methods many nonprofits use to collect data. Within the same group at different points in time.
Beth Kanter
JUNE 13, 2012
This year’s study had more than 6,500 Millennials, 3 focus groups and 90 nonprofit professionals respond/participate. MCON 2012, a virtual summit to help nonprofit leaders learn how to engage the Millennial generation as donors, takes place online on July 19. The schedule features an impressive list of Millennials and others who are experts on this topic.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
AUGUST 16, 2015
It's the sort of failure experts could have avoided with non-expert opinion (and it's why companies use devices such as focus groups to ensure they don't make similar mistakes in the future). In an article last year (and soon-to-be book ) Tom Nichols complained about the new relativism brought about by Wikipedia and Google and bemoaning the declining authority of the expert.
Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 13, 2017
I sat in on a twitter chat yesterday, #DLNChat, that is a higher ed tech focused group (run by EdSurge ). Higher ed focuses too much on knowledge, and uses assignments that don’t resemble the job activities. The topic was the link between higher ed and job skills, and I was a wee bit cynical. While I think there are great possibilities, the current state of the art leaves a lot to be desired.
David Weinberger
JANUARY 12, 2012
In a focus group, a student said s/he went to international relations class and there was an assignment on how Socrates would be relevant to a problem today. The old days of dreading group projects are ending; satudents sometimes post their topics on Facebook to elicit reactions and help.
Beth Kanter
DECEMBER 18, 2017
In addition to the countless lunches, coffees, roundtables, focus groups and other opportunities for feedback and discussion I engaged in I also dug into the evidence on the impacts of capacity building on organizations. If organizations are focused on those types of measurable results then why aren’t investments in organizations focused on helping groups achieve the durable results they define?
Doc Searls
MARCH 31, 2009
ITU-T Focus Group on IdM and subsequent activity. ID-Legal Workingn group at Identity Commons. Kids Online Working group at Identity Commons. UserCentric Health Working group at Identity Commons. The Internet Identity Workshop , aka IIW, started as the Identity Gang way back in ‘05, and has since grown to become a fixture event in the calendars of many developers and other folks supportive of development work toward working user-driven identity systems.
Beth Kanter
MARCH 14, 2012
At the “Learning in Public” breakout session, Beth Kanter, Jared Raynor (TCC Group) and Kathy Reich (David and Lucile Packard Foundation) sharing the Packard Foundation’s experience with learning in public. The foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program evaluation was conducted very publicly, using social media, focus groups, a wiki – lots of mechanisms for getting stakeholders to help interpret the data and give input on the program. Flickr Photo by Zen.
Tony Karrer
JULY 6, 2009
Using LinkedIn For Travel and Meetings Breaking the Ice at a Meeting with LinkedIn Using LinkedIn to Fill Out Your Business Trip Using LinkedIn for Travel Connecting with People in Your Network When Traveling Groups on LinkedIn 5 ways to get more from your LinkedIn Groups 5 Tips for Creating, Promoting and Managing a LinkedIn Group What are They Talking About? LinkedIn e-Learning Groups) – These are some of the learning focused groups on LinkedIn.
Beth Kanter
MAY 31, 2016
They use a variety of methods including focus groups, surveys, and one-on-one conversations. Through focus groups, they asked participants about the consistently high scores. New Door is providing more meal-replacement types of food (canned soup, ramen noodles) to their youth and making things more “fun” by sponsoring field trips among groups of peers in response to their feedback. Photo by LIFT.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
"The notion of students as change agents is a relatively new concpt." -- Malcom Ryan Rachel Winston How we can shape the development of a new culture of learning by creating a new partnership between students and educators. political view of the prevailing culture 1. why NUS thinks is an ideal model 2. how you in your role can build these partnerships 3.
Dave Snowden
JULY 16, 2010
My real concern here is the focus on communication, principally by leaders. focused on service to society, competitively differentiated not by a focus on personal gain, profit etc. In contrast with a populist approach which had no where to go when focus groups failed to give clear guidance. I only met Rosabeth Moss Kanter once when we both spoke at a conference in Boston many years ago, along with Larry Prusak.
Dave Snowden
MAY 7, 2009
The way people signify what their story means will give us quantitative data, as will which images were chose by which age groups or other demographic criteria. Too many surveys and focus groups are one off sessions or staccato events with significant gaps between data capture points. Can you think of societies, pressure groups and other third parties who might be interested in participating (we can capture some narrative material for them in parallel).
Beth Kanter
DECEMBER 21, 2011
So, you must have an outcome or result identified and know how each metric you pick helps you take a step towards that outcome. The goal of my Facebook page is serve as a focus group to listen to nonprofit practitioners and their ideas, concerns, and needs to use social media effectively. [link].
Nancy White
OCTOBER 17, 2011
Any tips or recommended resources for facilitating hybrid online/phone focus groups with smaller groups (5-15 max)? Also, any recommendations re: optimal group size for this sort of interaction? If the group is all online – you are lucky. The most challenging groups are mixed online and offline. 3) Group size issues are similar to those F2F. Consider focusing the domain in a way that carries relevance for people NOW.
David Weinberger
OCTOBER 16, 2013
The media focused on Taksim Square in Istanbul, but the action was actually in Gezi park. When it broke up, the govt mostly decided to treat the protestors the way GW Bush treated the anti-Iraq War protests: not as a threat, but more like merely a focus group. Media dependency brings distortion, censorship, and counter propaganda — but also dominance, focus, and singular narrative. Q: You said there were about 150 social groups involved in the movement.
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