internetsociometry

[BARNETT WEISS]

Dear Diana and others:
  I did not mean to exclude anyone who is not a member of the ASGPP. Anyone participating on this list has shown their interest in pursuing linking up with those here and that is sufficient for the purpose of moving on any of the proposals I mentioned.  I'll write more later. Thank you for your support of my proposals. Blessings, Bud

Diana Jones <dianaj at orgdev.co.nz> wrote:
      Hello Bud, Ann, Adam and everyone,
   
    I'd love to be part of the group exploring and establishing effective internet sociometry processes whereby people's are valued with their choices and responses, and where there is not a great rush to display the sociogram or results, other than with the specific group of participants. I wonder if this is possible. 
   

   This is a really important area. As you are aware, the social network analysts overlook the responses of participants completely, and gather and display their data frequently without the participants knowing the data has been collected, and the results are published in international journals under the guise of research. I am glad we are not considering this approach. 
   
  What would be the purpose of this exploration? So far Bud, you have several proposals in yoru initial email. You are relating to 'sociometrising ASGPP', and choosing 5 people to to be in a panel on a topic yet to be chosen. In this way, many of us who connect with grouptalk listserve are not members of ASGPP would not be included. Is this what you are thinking? I am keen to be involved in the discussion of internet sociometry, however I am not a member of ASGPP. Another is to see the evolving social atoms displayed by ASGPP member's connections, and another is producing discussion groups at the April 07 ASGPP conference. That sounds great and highly attractive to me as a potential conference attender. 
   
  I like very much you want us to discover how to produce internetsociometry. And I like very much you want us to use the technology available to us to communicate more effectively with one another. It is a great offer you are making. I participated in an American learning forum as a listener using this the free dial -in invitation earlier this year, and was sitting up in bed at 5am (1.30pm EST) listening to a presentation with a power point presentation in front of me. I was very stimulated at the time, however I have yet to follow up with the forum. 
   
  I have used a mix of group meetings and email with participants completing a sociomatrix and people emailed me a copy of their choices. I was delighted by the honesty fo the responses, knowing the participants, considering they were not in the same room with one another as they made their choices. I dont think that was a sociometric process. Participants knew they would be sharing their choices and reasons, one on one, with everyone in the group. Prior to the session, I produced individual results of postive, negative and neutral choices made, and the group averages and gavech person theirs during the group session. 
   
  I produced the maps (with no names as one person person had preferred this) and then we processed the choices and results in a two day workshop and more in subsquent meetings. I have found producing sociograms is not always helpful or relevant to group development, and sharing choices creates significant new links and ways of relating. 
   
  With your proposals Bud,  creating a process for deciding who is in with each one, and your proposals Ann's  regarding how the data will be used, and who has access to it, and then processes for sharing choices, reasons for who you have chosen or not chosen another, and being with one another with these, presents a challenge for us. I look forward to being part of progressive solutions. 
   
   regards, Diana Jones
   
    
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