by Colin on November 24, 2009
My life changed forever the day I discovered you can center click to open and close a Firefox tab. Just center click (click the mouse scroll wheel) a link on a page to open the link in a new tab, without losing focus on the current page. And when you’re done with the tab, just center click anywhere on it to close.
It’s a minor feature, but now I wonder how I lived without it.
Yesterday, I came across a few more useful Firefox features that I’ve already incorporated into my day-to-day repertoire. These tips center on getting more out of the aptly named Awesome Bar – a much-hyped feature of Firefox 3+.
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by Colin on November 13, 2009
You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it’s really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that’s been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay.
- William Turner
by Colin on November 10, 2009
Pretty much every website administrator and marketing guru uses quantitative analytic tools to optimize their website. Apps like Clicky, Mint, and Google Analytics provide great reports on user navigation trends, popular links, visitor demographics and more.
But that’s only half the story.
It’s vital to remember that a user’s experience on your site is more than the sum of their clicks. Ideally, we’d all have the chance to sit in the same room as our users, watching their every move then interviewing them about their experience. But besides being somewhat creepy, such one-on-one assessment is rarely practical.
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by Colin on November 4, 2009
We recently completed our 5-part series on mastering qualitative data analysis using Qualrus.
If you missed a step, or simply want to go back and review, the entire series is posted right here on our blog:
PHASE 1: Prepare your data for analysis
PHASE 2: Get to know and love your data
PHASE 3: Let the Coding Begin!
PHASE 4: Refine your coding scheme
PHASE 5: Report the Results
Questions? Comments? Send a note to support@ideaworks.com
by Colin on November 2, 2009
(Part 5 of 5 from the series: 5 Steps to Mastering Qualitative Data Analysis)
By now you’ve put a lot of work into your project. After collecting your data, you prepared it for analysis, got acquainted with some general themes, then scrupulously marked and coded segments. In Phase 4, you took a step back and refined your coding scheme, checking your work for inconsistencies and redundancy.
At this point, your data are neatly organized and ready to be reported. As you write up your final document, it’s important to refer often to your data. It’s easy to get side-tracked while discussing a particularly interesting theme and overlook less remarkable results.
Qualrus can generate a number of reports designed to illuminate different aspects of your project. To ensure that you fairly and completely characterize your project data, keep these reports handy while writing your final manuscript.
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