Thanks Penny and everyone for your very helpful suggestions! My colleague recommended google docs too, I was kind of wondering..hmm, do we have to use google for everything? Hence asked.
I will spend some time researching on the other tools Cheers Christina 2010/1/18 penny hagen <[email protected]> > Hi Christina > > depending on what you are after you might want to look at Tumblr, > which you can set up yourself and is pretty straight forward for you > and for participants. In the past I have used wordpress blogs (one > per participant) customised to allow moblogging but that was before > Tumblr was around. Tumblr will support various media types and mobile > messages which is great if you want people to actually be able to > share their activities throughout the day. > > Chris Khalil describes his process here. > > http://www.chriskhalil.com/2009/04/21/the-new-digital-ethnographer%E2%80%99s-toolkit-capturing-participant%E2%80%99s-lifestreams/ > > Our Mobile Diary case studies are documented here (but old tech now - > 2006) > > http://digitaleskimo.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/hagen_engaging-withstakeholdersmobilediaries.pdf > > There are also quite a number of custom tools that have been > developed as online diary tools. Ones that I know of but haven't > had personal experience with include: > Revelation > http://www.kdaresearch.com/services/revelation.php > I have seen some positive feedback about this on other lists. > > Piipl > http://www.piipl.net/index.php/en/ which is relatively new - this one > might be more online focus group and less online diary - I've only > quickly looked at the demo. > > 7daysinmylife is also a custom online diary tool, set up to support > the method of context mapping > (http://studiolab.io.tudelft.nl/contextmapping/) . You can read about > it here http://www.zilverinnovation.com/en/tools > It was developed at DELF though I am not sure exactly how you get a > license to use it. > > > > > > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48409 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- Christina Li Founder, uiGarden.net (http://www.uigarden.net) Weaving Usability and Cultures +44 (0) 7845269566 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
