Yap 3.0

Jeffrey and I, along with a colleague, Dr. Brent Muirhead, published a “viability business blog model” called R.U.B.R.I.C., a year and a half ago. Since we all know how the blogging world moves faster than lightspeed, ensuring that blog related models continue to be current is very important for evidence-based research practitioners like myself. What better way to make sure that this model is still effective but to ask the blogging experts themselves - you! And what better way to do this qualitative research study than at the Northern Voice conference; thus this application for the travel bursary as I'm coming from Toronto and self-financed research studies can be taxing to one's ailing budget.

So why would you care to participate in this study? The literature on blogging continues to be expansive but unfortunately the peer-reviewed academic journals, let alone Canadian research studies on this topic, are not as limitless. What ends up happening is that some researchers study a mesh of pop culture, media driven material, and input from various sources that may not always work with an IRB approved methodology. The PhD's and academics may end up with incomplete material or have to redo the study again. This is where your valuable input come in - its your voice that is being studied, so why not take part in it. It will be you who will validate this model and tell us if it works in your professional and personal blogs. You are continually shaping the blogosphere everyday, how about ensuring that the models that we portray about this landscape is true-to-form so that future bloggers and professors of e-sociology, internet psychology, and virtual organisational management will have a clear understanding of what truly makes up a great blog.

We would be very happy if you could participate in this study and would be most grateful for Northern Voice bursary if they could provide some funding for this Canadian research project whose findings will be very useful for the conference participants and our global blogging family.

Results will be posted on this blog and all participants (over 19 yo or with guardian consent) will remain anonymous unless they indicate otherwise.

Thank you and see you at the conference.