Hi GIDForums folk,

We're conducting a research study on "knowledge sharing behavior in virtual communities." As the research is focussing on professional, work-related forums, I thought that this may be a great place to gather some data. There is a prize incentive: one 512MB iPod Shuffle which will be awarded to a randomly selected participant.

If you have time to fill up the questionnaire, we'd appreciate it. If this is not a good place for what we needs, we would appreciate direction to more appropriate professional virtual forums.

The questionnaire is at the following url:

210.71.15.163


Thanks!

Vita

The research is conducted by:
Professor: Dr. Teresa Ju
Graduate student: Vita Chen
s92631112@mail.student.stu.edu.tw

Dept. of Information Management, SHU-TE University, Taiwan

Hi,

I would like to restate my purpose of research again.

I am doing research about knowledge sharing behavior in virtual
communities. The research is to discover what influences people in
spending time and effort to answer questions or in providing what they
know in virtual community. People share information, words,
knowledge, stories or photos in virtual community. It is a voluntary
and respectable behavior, which might not easily be found in the real
world. I have participated in virtual communities from news letter
settings to web settings (such as Code Guru). I appreciate people's
sharing and helping without any feedback. This is my original
motivation to this research.

When I was programming a database-related system, I learned a lot from
forums and news groups. That's the reason I chose professional
programming forums to be my sample for the research. The sample is
focused on people in related forums with programming skills. Hence,
could you please kindly answer the questionnaire and help to complete
this research? Also, if you have friends or someone you know who
might want to participate, please send this letter to invite them to
answer the questionnaire. Many thanks.

The questionnaire link is
210.71.15.163

Sincerely,
Vita

The research is conducted by:
Professor: Dr. Teresa Ju
Graduate student: Vita Chen
s92631112@mail.student.stu.edu.tw

Again, I wanna thank you GIDForums folks!

Because you kindky spend time and effort to fill up my questionnaire, the data collection is quite success. Friday is the last day for collecting data. If you still want to join the drawing, please hurry up.

Vita

you'r welcome

I missed the deadline...

Will you share with us what you found out (from the survey)? I am curious...

Thank you for your participating, my survey is completed.
I pass the oral test today. ^_^
I will randomly pick a winner from database, and post here.
After few weeks, I will post the result to sharing with you guys.
Thank you again.

Sorry for JdS...
Next time, please hurry.... ^_*