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June 1, 2006

Blogger Study — Let’s Get the Data Right

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 7:42 am

Take the Bloggers’ Study

Are you just a little exasperated with MSM news stories that tell — in so many wrong ways about –what bloggers are, do and think? Here is a chance for us all to contribute to the picture that folks have of bloggers and what blogging is. This may be our opporunity to straighten that biased picture frame, get the colors correct, and perspective right.

Diane Ensley at A List Review has featured a study at U Mass Dartmouth. The Center for Media Research, under the guidance Dr. Nora Barnes, is calling for professional bloggers to complete a three-page WORD survey. Imagine that actually asking bloggers rather than asking people who watch from afar. You can get the details and the survey by clicking through on the title below, which will take you to Diane’s post.

Diane Edsley Blogger Study Post

Not sure whether you qualify as a professional blogger? I wouldn’t use money as a measure. Why not download the survey and see whether you can answer the questions? They need to have ALL of the the data they can get in order to have a clear picture. Let’s not self-select ourselves out before we even start.

A major study could lend some real credibility to blogging.

Thanks Chartreuse (BETA), for finding this.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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6 Comments to “Blogger Study — Let’s Get the Data Right”

  1. June 1st, 2006 at 1:22 pm
    Chris Cree said

    They might increase their response rate by putting their contact info on the questionnaire.

    I think it shows they have glaring ignorance about how the whole viral blog world works that they assume people will only get the survey from the original web site and thus know exactly where to return it when completed.

  2. June 1st, 2006 at 1:26 pm
    Chris Cree said

    I suppose I could help by letting folks know what it says on the originating site:

    Please email your completed surveys to Dr. Barnes.

    There y’all go.

  3. June 1st, 2006 at 2:28 pm
    ME Strauss said

    You are a good, kind, and helpful man, Chris,
    Thank you for that.
    liz

  4. June 11th, 2006 at 6:56 pm
    Attention Fellow Bloggers at CREEations said

    [...] This study was brought to my attention by Liz Strauss over at Successful Blog who first heard about it from Diane Ensey at A List Review. [...]

  5. June 15th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
    Janet Johnson said

    The study has just been published… you can check it out here:

    http://www.umassd.edu/cmr/studies/blogstudy.cfm

    It’s a great read.

  6. June 15th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Thanks Janet,
    We were just talking about that.
    Can\’t wait to read it.

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