1. An Analysis of the Use of Blogging to Solicit
Feedback in an Education Research Unit
Ting Yuan, Gary Natriello, Stephen Asunka, Jeannie Crowley, & Hui Soo Chae
The EdLab of Teachers College, Columbia University

2. Workplace Collaboration

3. How to Increase Teamwork?

4. Community of Practice

5. Community of Practice in a
Learning Organization
•Face-to-face- + e-communication
A participatory culture
A blog site with various web 2.0
multimedia tools

7. The Study
• 50 staff
• Site statistics
• Survey

8. Blogging Activities
(11/2008 – 11/2009)
7, 101 page visits per day
4.76 posts published per day
5.65 comments made per day

9. Overall Blogging Acitivities
(11/2008 – 11/2009)
Activity Number
Total Blog Entries 1,271
Total Comments 1,510
Total Page Views 2,595,005
"Ask-for-Feedback"
107
Entries

10. Organizational Blog Site
107 Ask-for-feedback-related entries
• Feedback-related comments
• Link
• Image
• Attachment
• Video
• Poll

11. Findings
19 Staff Members’ Perceptions (example) Strongly
agree
1. The workplace blogging can promote 87.5%
information sharing.
2. The blogging can enhance workplace 62.5%
collaboration.
3. I tend to use blogging to share work 80%
updates with my co-workers.

12. “Ask-for-feedback” Entries vs. Total Responses
(11/2008 – 11/2009)
140
118
120 107
100 92
80
62
60
40 28
19
20 7 11 10 9
0
Poll Image Video Link Attachment

13. Implications
*Blog can be a medium potentially
promoting learning in the workplace
*A democratic conversation platform
*Different multimedia tools embedded on
blog might have various effects in
encouraging workplace voices