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An Analysis of the Use of Blogging to Solicit
Feedback in an Education Research Unit
Ting Yuan, Gary Natriello, Stephen Asunka, Jeannie Crowley, & Hui Soo Chae
The EdLab of Teachers College, Columbia University
Workplace Collaboration
How to Increase Teamwork?
Community of Practice
Community of Practice in a
Learning Organization
•Face-to-face- + e-communication
A participatory culture
A blog site with various web 2.0
multimedia tools
The Study
• 50 staff
• Site statistics
• Survey
Blogging Activities
(11/2008 – 11/2009)
7, 101 page visits per day
4.76 posts published per day
5.65 comments made per day
Overall Blogging Acitivities
(11/2008 – 11/2009)
107"Ask-for-Feedback"
Entries
2,595,005Total Page Views
1,510Total Comments
1,271Total Blog Entries
NumberActivity
Organizational Blog Site
• Feedback-related comments
• Link
• Image
• Attachment
• Video
• Poll
107 Ask-for-feedback-related entries
Findings
19 Staff Members’ Perceptions (example)
1. The workplace blogging can promote information sharing.
87.5%
2. The blogging can enhance workplace collaboration.
62.5%
3. I tend to use blogging to share work
updates with my co-workers.
80%
Strongly
agree
“Ask-for-feedback” Entries vs. Total Responses
(11/2008 – 11/2009)
7
1911
62
10
118
92
28
107
9
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
Poll Image Video Link Attachment
Implications
*Blog can be a medium potentially
promoting learning in the workplace
*A democratic conversation platform
*Different multimedia tools embedded on
blog might have various effects in
encouraging workplace voices