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| Corporate Blogging Survey 2005 - Executive Summary |
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The Executive Summary of Back Bone Media's 2005 Corporate Blogging Survey is available online. Some of the highlights include: It took most corporate bloggers less than 2 months from the inception of the idea of a blog to the launch of the blog. 92% of blogs were solo affairs. 83% reported increased web traffic as a result of blogging. The survey suffers from problems of self-reporting, but is nevertheless very interesting.
Posted: 11/7/05; 11:41:13 PM # |
| A Cognitive Analysis of Tagging |
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Tagging of content (especially in contrast to classification) is all the rage right now. It's great to see some thoughtful work such as Rashmi Sinha's cognitive analysis of tagging. As is the case with many other tools, tagging is popular because of the lower "cognitive costs", in essence meaning that there are fewer mental steps required to assign the metadata. I think her diagrams in particular are helpful in thinking this question through in more general terms.
Posted: 11/7/05; 11:32:11 PM # |
| When Can I Expect a Response? A Study of Rhythms in Email Usage |
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Joshua Tyler of HP and John Tang of Sun have identified some interesting patterns in the area of people's Email Rhythms. In particular, they noticed that because the burden of managing email expectations falls primarily on the recipient, senders are left to their own devices to come up with expectations of replies and discerning a breakdown in communication, until they learn the habits of particular recipients. This is just the tip of the iceberg for these sorts of questions, I think.
Posted: 11/7/05; 11:27:04 PM # |
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