| Gerry Mahar 2005-06-22, 5:45 pm |
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Hello Participants in Websphere Hats forum:
You are being invited to participate in a survey that asks participants
about their activities in websphere hats, why they participate and what
they feel they are gaining from their participation in websphere
overall. This studys objective is to help expand the body of knowledge
about why and how individual and group participation leads to a viable
and sustainable knowledge community online.
To study the dynamics of participation, of course, means going to
websphere participants, such as yourself to help us answer these
questions. The survey is being conducted within selected IBM websphere
forums worldwide and all participants are invited to participate. To
respond to our survey questions will take about 25 minutes and your
participation will make a real contribution to the accuracy and success
of the study. You should know that:
This study is supported by IBM Center for Advanced Study (CAS)
Your participation is completely voluntary and there are no known or
anticipated risks to participating in the study. You can decline to
answer particular questions, if you wish and reminder notices will not
be sent to those of you who have responded.
Data will be kept indefinitely in a secure location. We will not
collect email or IP addresses and if an email address is provided, it
will not be kept with or linked to survey responses.
All information provided will be kept confidential and no one outside
the research team(University of Waterloo and IBM) will see your
completed survey.
We plan to share the results of this study at national conferences, in
academic and in practitioner journals in aggregated and statistical
form. Your name will not appear in any thesis or report resulting from
this study.
This project has been reviewed and received ethics clearance at the
University of Waterloo,Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. If you have any
questions about your rights as a research participant you may contact
Dr. Susan Sykes, Director of the Office of Research Ethics at
519 888 4567 ext. 6005 or by email at ssykes@uwaterloo.ca.
The survey ends on July 31, 2005 and can be accessed with the link below:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=138071154463
If you have any difficulty logging in, please email
gjmahar@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Thank you for considering this request.
Sincerely,
Gerry Mahar
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Management Sciences
Faculty of Engineering, university of Waterloo.
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