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Hi,

Apologies for the cold-call email but if you have a minute I'd very much
appreciate your thoughts about social network software.

I'm based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and am
developing a study with colleagues which involves mapping young people's
personal social networks over time (about 200 young people in 6 schools
in southern England over four years). 

We're interested in the idea of creating a simple web-based tool which
young people could use to draw out and update changes in relation to
their personalised social networks (both school-based and
not-school-based). We would also like the site to enable them to 'blog
their thoughts and feelings about friendships. We anticipate each young
person would have a page which only they (and the researchers) could
access. We've yet to decide exactly the kind of changes we would wish to
monitor (new and departing members, nature/strength of connections
perhaps). 

Do you know of any existing software that could be used to support such
a website? 

Best wishes

Chris Bonell

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Dr Chris Bonell
Senior Lecturer in Social Science & Epidemiology
Public & Environmental Health Research Unit
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London WC1E 7HT
Tel. + 44 (0)20 7927 2145
Fax. +44 (0) 207 580 4524

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