Hi Christina depending on what you are after you might want to look at Tumblr, which you can set up yourself and is pretty straight forward for you and for participants. In the past I have used wordpress blogs (one per participant) customised to allow moblogging but that was before Tumblr was around. Tumblr will support various media types and mobile messages which is great if you want people to actually be able to share their activities throughout the day.
Chris Khalil describes his process here. http://www.chriskhalil.com/2009/04/21/the-new-digital-ethnographer%E2%80%99s-toolkit-capturing-participant%E2%80%99s-lifestreams/ Our Mobile Diary case studies are documented here (but old tech now - 2006) http://digitaleskimo.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/hagen_engaging-withstakeholdersmobilediaries.pdf There are also quite a number of custom tools that have been developed as online diary tools. Ones that I know of but haven't had personal experience with include: Revelation http://www.kdaresearch.com/services/revelation.php I have seen some positive feedback about this on other lists. Piipl http://www.piipl.net/index.php/en/ which is relatively new - this one might be more online focus group and less online diary - I've only quickly looked at the demo. 7daysinmylife is also a custom online diary tool, set up to support the method of context mapping (http://studiolab.io.tudelft.nl/contextmapping/) . You can read about it here http://www.zilverinnovation.com/en/tools It was developed at DELF though I am not sure exactly how you get a license to use it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48409 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
