Survey as basis for the club (preview)

Today I developed a survey to get a first impression, what the target group of project managers will be interested in when be part of a virtual club. 

The survey is splitted in 4 chapters. It's not only important to ask questions, but to ask why you want to know something and what exactly it is. 

That's why I developed the following table:

What I want to know	Question	Why
Statistics
Age	How old are you?	Which age does my target group has? Are they young, middle age, or old experienced workers?
Job	What’s you actual position in your company?	Are only Project managers working with virtual teams? Maybe I forgot an important target group
Size of the company		Do only big international companies work with virtual teams or also small ones
Experience Virtual Teamwork
Do you work in virtual teams?	How often do you work with virtual teams?	= target group?
Did you ever received training in working with virtual teams?		Do big companies offer more training then small ones?
Which tools do VTR-people know and which do they use	Which of the following tools do you use when working in a virtual team?	Do people how received a training know more tools? Do people who work more often in VT know more tools? Is there a leak in knowhow? Do young people know more tools then older?
Experience Social Communities
Are you using social networks?	In which of the following social networks are you a member? Please tick the boxes.	Sources: http://www.clickz.com/clickz/stats/1714661/top-ten-uk-social-networking-sites-may-2009 To get an overview if business man use private networks or mainly business networks
How regulary?		Do people who work in computer
Do people access Social Networks only from home or also from work		Private or Business use? It’s important for HESTIA
Are you willing to pay for a membership/premiumaccount?		Is it possible to charge members to participate in a virtual club
A virtual Club
Do people have interest in a totally virtually environment		Be aware of the fears people might have when talking about a totally virtually world.
What elements are important for a virtual club		The get an idea what requirements the social network must have.^

The result can be seen here. At the moment I test with some people, if the survey as such is logical, if the categories and the possibilities to answer fit and so on...
After this short time of piloting the survey will be spreaded to project managers.

History of web

Nice summary about web-history:

Structure of the thesis

Here you can find the planed structure of the thesis to discuss next week. You can also give feedback via the comment function.

1.      Introduction

2.      Background

Change of the Communication via the Internet from Email to Social Networks. Increase of time spend in Internet, especially for communication. HESTIA 

3.      Analysis of social networks

Which ones and why? Focus on business networks and facebook (big player)

To compare the different platforms a rating system will help. Different elements like access, communication, size, group-modes, etc. will be rated and compared to gain a valid solution. The goal is to figure out which social networks fits best for HESTIA.

3.1.   Facebook

3.2.   linkedIn Hestia

3.3.   Xing

3.4.   ?

4.      Analysis of Offline Clubs

Which clubs? Country Clubs? Surveys of Members and managing committee. Why to people engage themselves in the Club? 

5.      Summary of Chapter 3 and 4

What do both, online and offline clubs provide to its member? How can these elements be combined to a virtual club? Rating of the different aspects.

6.      First Concept of HESTIA.

This concept will include the structure of the club, it’s aims and goals, how the club will work, meetings, where it will work.

7.      Evalutation of the Concept

Ask project managers in qualitative interviews about the concept to get feedback and fit the concept to the needs of project managers. 

8.      Final Concept of HESTIA

Beside the points mentioned in chapter 6 marketing and promotion aspects and Corporate Design.

8.1.   Corporate Design

The goddess of home and fire will influence the design of HESTIA. 

8.2.   Marketing

How can HESTIA made famous and win a lot of members, especially in the first weeks

9.      Integration of Hestia in a Social Network

Implemention of HESTIA in one of the social networks investigated in chapter 3.

10.  Conclusion

11.  References

HESTIA - The virtual project management club

This blog will be about my master thesis at the CIT Cork in the studies Media Design.

The thesis is based on the project proposal document.

For time schedule there is a project plan. 


In the coming weeks I will update this blog regulary to keep you up to date about the current state of my research.