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Weblog usage report

Usage results

Results from question 4

Do you use weblogs (blogs) as a source of business news and information?

Question 4 result

Results from question 5

What are your major business or professional applications for weblogs?

Question 5 result
  Major applications Frequency
Valid 1. To share knowledge with colleagues in industry or profession 31
  2. To locate business news and information for my internal clients 23
  3. To see how my organization is perceived by consumers/customers or the web at large 3
  4. To stay on top of professional or industry developments 83
  5. To stay aware of the weblog phenomenon 17
  6. Other 7
  Total 415
Missing System 3
Total   167

Results from question 6

Which weblogs do you use the most for business/professional applications?

The results from this question were counted.

Blog name URL 1.* 2.* 3.* 4.* 5.* Total
ResourceShelf http://www.resourceshelf.com/ 20 9 7 1 2 39
LISNews http://www.lisnews.com/ 7 5 4 1 0 17
ResearchBuzz http://www.researchbuzz.com 4 3 4 5 0 16
Library stuff http://www.librarystuff.net/ 3 3 2 3 2 13
The shifted librarian http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/ 3 2 2 2 3 12
Librarian.net http://librarian.net/ 5 1 2 1 3 12
BeSpecific http://www.bespacific.com/ 5 1 1 0 1 8
The Gurteens knowledge website http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X00141D06?open&p=6913 2 1 3 0 0 6
Mathemagenic http://blog.mathemagenic.com/ 2 3 0 0 0 5
Keeping legal http://www.willco.com/customers/ 2 2 1 0 0 5
DLNet http://dlnet.blogspot.com/ 0 1 3 0 0 4
UK freedom of information act blog http://foia.blogspot.com/ 2 1 0 1 0 4
Knowledge jolt with Jack http://www.jackvinson.com/ 0 0 1 2 1 4
Peter Scott's library blog http://blog.xrefer.com/ 2 1 0 0 0 3
Lessig http://www.lessig.org/ 1 2 0 0 0 3
Lawlibtech http://lawlibtech.com/ 0 1 0 0 2 3
McGee's musings http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/ 0 2 0 1 0 3
Phil Bradley's blog http://www.philb.com/blog/blogger.html 0 0 1 1 1 3

* Preference

Question 6 result

Results from question 7

How often do you monitor your favourite weblogs?

Question 7 result
  Monitoring blogs Frequency
Valid 5-7 times per week 65
  2-4 times per week 26
  Once per week 26
  Irregular 44
  Total 161
Missing System 6
Total   167

Results from question 8

How do you manage the usage of weblogs as a source of business news and information?

167 participants answered this question.

Question 8 result

Reasons of managing blogs:

  1. Check the weblogs directly
  2. Use web search engines that include blogs
  3. Subscribe to RSS feeds delivered into my e-mail
  4. Subscribe to atoms delivered into my e-mail
  5. Subscribe to RSS feeds via a news reader
  6. Subscribe to atoms via a news reader
  7. Other
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