During BlogWalk 1.0, we asked the participants to fill in a short questionnaire, to get a picture of the audience. The results were presented at the end of the day, but I'll summarise them here as well.
The number of participants was 15 (so N=15).
1. How long do you blog?
Average: 13.17 months. More interesting is the range (from 1 to 50 months), which shows that there were beginners and expert bloggers in the BlogWalk audience.
2. To how many weblogs do you contribute?
Here, you could chose between 4 alternatives, the numbers are the range in the answers:
Personal (public): 1-4 (Most answered: 1)
Personal (private): 1
Group (public): 1-2
Group (private): 1-5
3. How much time (average) do you spend per day on weblog reading and writing?
Here again, the variety shows the difference between beginner and experienced blogger:
Average: 74 minutes per day (range in the answers: 5 - 180 minutes)
4. How many weblogs do you read (are on your blogroll)? , with distinction between the ones that are read regularly and occasionaly
Regularly: Average: 24 (range: 0-130)
Occasionally: Average: 42 (range: 0-180)
5. Is you weblogging known and supported by your company? . All subquestions could be answered by 'yes' or 'no', here we show what is answered by most participants:
a. People from my company know about my weblog: YES (14 out of 15)
b. My company provides the infrastructure for my weblog: NO (11)
c. My company encourages me to write in my weblog: NO (11)
This is interesting. Blogging is for most BlogWalk participants a private/personal activity, probably about work-related topics (in our case knowledge management), but without relation to the company. I wonder how they (companies) perceive weblogging, as something dangerous...?
6. How often do you look for previous posts in your weblog?
Daily: 0
Few times per week : 4
Weekly: 5
Monthly: 4
Less than monthly: 1
7. How would you classify yourself?
Beginner : 7
Enthusiast : 4
Addict : 2
Other:
Reflective practitioner: 1
Evangelist: 1
Sceptic: 1
8 How does your environment react on your blogging activities?
“Shut up, I can't hear the world weblog any longer”: 3
“Can I start one?”: 6
Nobody knows…. : 0
Other:
They don’t know what it is: 4
“You’re a looney”: 1
They feedback to weblog posts offline: 1
One day without blogging… (a few answers:)
- Is an opportunity missed
- Can be healthy
- Is like a Dutchman without a bike!
- Makes me a bit nervous
I think people should be blogging… (again a few responses:)
- When they have something important to tell the world
- Mainly for themselves
- Just to try if they like it
- To connect to people sharing the same or similar interests
- To stretch themselves: they are smarter than they think
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