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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** All: How about this: If one gets 3 or more off-list responses, then the person asking the question (the querier??) makes a summary and posts that summary to the entire list? - Tom Michael Reed wrote: > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** > > Dear Michael Johnston, > > The current wisdom that I've been able to obtain from other Socnet > members is that, unless the correspondence is clearly of "general" > interest to everyone (how is this possibly determined?), the person > who made the original query (in this case--regarding data collection > instruments--me) should share responses ONLY with parties (like you) > explicitly expressing a desire to see those responses. > > My observation is that this puts the onus on the original querier to > (sometimes laboriously) go back and collect the relevant e-mails (and > attachments)--from the flood of Socnet e-mails that sometimes pour > in--and "bundle them" and send them on to interested parties. (And, > knowing fallible human nature, I would STRONGLY suspect that some > Socnet users simply never abide by these courtesy rules.) > > I would think that a listserv would/should function in a more open, > easy, "automatic," "democratic" manner? (But I'm not an expert on > listserv rules.) > > Does Socnet have an official, stated policy about this? I didn't see > one at the INSNA Web site. > > ***NOTE: By comparison, the UCINET listserv has an explicit rule > stating, "Please note that the norm of the list is to send all > responses back to the list so that everyone can see and learn from them." > > I hope I don't sound like I'm carping or complaining! This isn't my > purpose. I want to play by the rules. On the other hand, "rules" > sometimes need to be discussed and made explicit or even changed. > > Regards, > Michael Reed > > >> From: "Michael Johnston" <[log in to unmask]> >> To: "'Michael Reed'" <[log in to unmask]> >> Subject: RE: data collection instruments? >> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:36:57 -0800 >> >> Hi, Michael, >> >> I'm also very interested, would you be willing to post the responses to >> the listserv as a whole? >> >> Best wishes, >> Michael >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Social Networks Discussion Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On >> Behalf Of Michael Reed >> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 4:09 AM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: data collection instruments? >> >> >> ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** >> >> Dmitris, >> >> Perhaps my e-mail was too brief or unclear. I will know the names of all >> >> 30-50 women who belong to the entrepreneurship grow. I want to >> administer to >> each of them a paper survey (containing a list of all 30-50 women), and >> I >> will ask them questions about the individual's relations with persons on >> >> this list. So, I do know the boundaries of the group in question. >> >> Michael Reed >> >> >> >From: Dc Christopoulos <[log in to unmask]> >> >To: Michael Reed <[log in to unmask]> >> >Subject: RE: data collection instruments? >> >Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:38:32 +0000 >> > >> >Hi Michael >> > >> >I attach an instrument I used a few years ago to measure innovation >> >networks among a group of senior managers in a successful company. I >> was >> >attempting to locate innovation support networks among them. >> > >> >Your issue is whether you need a name generator (ie you do not know the >> >boundari.e.s of your group) or have a list of members to an association >> or >> >club that you can use. If you are going to employ some form of >> snowballing >> >then name generators are more appropriate. as you can see in the >> attached >> >I employed a combination of the two as I was worried i may be >> mIssing-out >> >an important node. >> > >> >Hope this is useful >> > >> >Dimitris >> > >> >Dr Dimitris C Christopoulos >> >Senior Lecturer >> >Department of Politics >> >UWE-Bristol >> >Coldharbour Lane >> >Bristol BS16 1QY >> > >> >________________________________ >> > >> >From: Social Networks Discussion Forum on behalf of Michael Reed >> >Sent: Mon 09/01/2006 19:18 >> >To: [log in to unmask] >> >Subject: data collection instruments? >> > >> > >> > >> >***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** >> > >> >Socnet: >> > >> >I am soon to do my first SNA research, a pilot project with a group of >> >30-50 >> >women entrepreneurs existing in a small Midwestern city. This first >> time I >> >want to use only binary data (yes/no, presence/absence of some >> >relationship) >> >that can be directional. I will use Ucinet 6 and Netdraw. >> > >> >Would anyone be willing to share with me some SNA data collection >> >instruments so that I can get a sense how these are structured? Thus >> >far, Steve Borgatti has generously shared with me the following survey >> >(used in one of his classes): >> > >> >http://www.analytictech.com/mb709/Surveys/April_social_network_survey.h >> >tm >> > >> >Thanks, >> >Michael Reed >> > >> >_____________________________________________________________________ >> >SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social >> >network researchers (http://www.insna.org). 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