[Air-L] recording activity in facebook and web survey best practices?

[Tom Buchanan]

For your Question 2, take a look at www.websm.org , an extensive
bibliography and collection of web survey methodology resources. I've always
found the work of Don Dillman and Mick Couper, among others, very useful -
but there's a lot of good peer-reviewed literature out there.

TB



On 23/2/10 05:03, "Michael Lee" <michael at nexodigital.net> wrote:

> Dear AOIRs,
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> My name is Michael Lee, I am a sociologist currently studying communication
> and software engineering in Costa Rica.
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> In my thesis (communication) I am working with uses and gratifications
> approach to Facebook.
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> One of my objectives it to try to identify uses related to political
> activity and convergence.
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> This objective suggest an ethnographic approach.
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> Question 1:
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> I would like to know if there are software tools  able to record the
> activity of 10 users that have agreed to let me follow their activity for
> one month.
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> Even better if these tools were open source.  I am also using Lime Survey so
> I have access to a server in case it is needed.
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> Question 2:
> I am trying to find readings about best practices in online surveys.  I have
> found advice in blogs and websites about completion time and number of items
> (1) but I would like to read a deeper analysis.
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> http://www.ccs.uottawa.ca/webmaster/voxco/best-practices.html
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> http://www.constantcontact.com/aka/docs/pdf/Top10SurveyBestPractices.pdf
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> Thanks a lot for any resource you could provide,
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> Michael Lee.
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> Communication Student
> University of Costa Rica
> www.ucr.ac.cr 
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