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Social Media Robots, Personas, and Narrative Gaps in Qualitative Research

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Back in 2006 I read the following point on Hugh Mcleod's blog, Gapingvoid: "If people like buying your product, it’s because its story helps fill in the narrative gaps in their own lives." 152) rather than the conventional constructs related to demographics.

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On the Roots of Social Computing

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I recently received an invitation from Mads Soegaard, Editor-in-Chief at Interaction-Design.org to offer those who read this blog an early view of a new chapter on Social Computing in their encyclopedia.

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Ethnography, Globalization, and Experience Design

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One of the most visited posts on this blog is titled, Empathic Research Methods and Design Strategy. In it I add to points made by Adam Silver, a Strategist at Frog Design, noting that globalization and digitalization in the 1990s resulted in product and service interfaces with more culturally diverse and geographically distributed customers.

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Social Business, the Golden Rule, and Open Empathy Organization

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I first took real notice of the term "social business" in a post early this year over at Peter Kim's blog. The concept is discussed by a range of observers interested in the implications of large numbers of people using web 2.o o technologies, especially social media, within corporate enterprises as employees, or outside them as customers.

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