Markus Heckner from the university of Regensburg contacted me looking for volunteers to participate in a survey on the use of social bookmarking systems. They are looking for people who have at least 20 papers tagged in their Connotea library, if you are interested in helping out then head on over to http://pc51010.uni-r.de/limesurvey/index.php?sid=63888&lang=en. The full call for participation is below.

Participants needed for Social Web research project

The number of social tagging systems like Connotea is increasing and the systems are enjoying rising popularity. However, communication patterns within these systems are not yet fully understood and are beginning to attract attention from researchers.

The Media Computing Department and the Media Educational Science department of the University of Regensburg (Germany) are conducting an interdisciplinary research study of social tagging system usage. We are looking for participants who are willing to spare the time to fill out a short online survey and answer several questions about how they use Connotea.

Unfortunately we cannot offer any compensation. However, filling out the survey should not take much longer than 5 minutes and would greatly help us gain a better understanding of social tagging systems.

Requirements:
The only requirement for participants is that they have at least 20 papers in their Connotea bibliography.

If you are interested, please help us by filling out the following online survey:
http://pc51010.uni-r.de/limesurvey/index.php?sid=63888&lang=en
(To start the survey simply follow the link above and click the “Next” button).

We are aiming to share our results with the community by posting a link to our work in this Connotea Blog as soon as we have finished and published our paper.

Thank you very much for your participation!

Should you have any further questions please feel free to contact us:

Markus Heckner, M.A.
markus.heckner@paedagogik.uni-regensburg.de
Media Educational Science
http://www-campus.uni-r.de/edu1/

Michael Heilemann, M.A.
michael.heilemann@paedagogik.uni-regensburg.de
Educational Science

Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff
christian.wolff@sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de
Media Computing
http://www-medieninformatik.uni-regensburg.de/

University of Regensburg