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Convo Kids 2012 – A Journey of Discovery

December 23, 2011

Am quite excited that we’ve finally launched this project!  In short, it is a year long research and immersion program with 12-21 year olds in India.  We’re really looking for 5-6 sponsors  - to help kick it off the ground – personally I believe that one of the key benefits (apart from the actual understanding [...]

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Reading Bytes for Nov 26

November 26, 2011

Updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina The Closed, Unfriendly World Of Wikipedia. A bit harsh, but we found Wikipedia image was a lil ‘cold’ in a study we did – http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mobile_Strategy_Research/India – Interesting perspective. We did research recently on Wikipedia in [...]

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Reading Bytes for Nov 23

November 23, 2011

Updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina A Case for Why Words Matter | Ad and Marketing Book [via @ Reviews – Advertising Age – QUOTE: "Mr. Shapiro's shift in nomenclature from the idea of customers — that is, buyers — to [...]

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Reading Bytes for Nov 14

November 15, 2011

Updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina Ethnography Matters – Discovered a good new blog on Ethnographers and Ethnography. From the about page: "We came together to start this blog because we believe that ethnographic research — with its focus on human [...]

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Reading Bytes for Sep 23

September 23, 2011

Updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina Ten predictions for the mobile health market | mobihealthnews – 10 predictions for the mobile health market in the US. How would that work for India/emerging markets? #mobilehealth …. “Over the past three years, research [...]

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Personas and how we use them at Convo

August 23, 2011

Crossposting from the Convo Blog For the right job, in the right situation there’s nothing more powerful than getting the client to come to grips with a persona they don’t know or understand well. We know that personas can help organizations have the conversations they need to have. Over the last few years working with [...]

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Newly discovered – Cultural Bytes

September 20, 2010

Just discovered Tricia Wang’s really super blog, Cultural Bytes, thanks to Experientia‘s blogpost on Ethnography’s contribution to values in technology design and use. She’s blogging her way through her research on the socio-cultural contexts of technology usage in low-income communities and migrant communities in Mexico and China. Lots to learn!! A couple of months ago [...]

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Reading Bytes for Sep 9

September 9, 2010

Daily updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina Safe water: extended user testing | interesting longitudinal ethnographic approach to design by @pathtweets – CLIPs: “PATH “road tests” household water treatment products in India … One of the primary challenges in developing a household [...]

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Reading Bytes for Aug 14

August 14, 2010

Daily updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina Research in the Wild: Making Research Work in Industry | blog@CACM – CLIP: "Even so, there are many in industry that consider researchers an expensive luxury that the company can ill afford. Part of [...]

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Reading Bytes for Aug 13

August 13, 2010

Daily updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina Digital education resource and library for researchers and students – Cyborg Anthropology – Cool collection of very useful links and resources for understanding the effects of objects and technology on humans and culture. . [...]

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Reading Bytes for Aug 12

August 12, 2010

Daily updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina Jugaad: mobile phone innovation from Santosh Ostwal | @TheEconomist – Interesting case of grassroots innovation CLIPS: "SANTOSH OSTWAL, husband and father of two, lost his apartment in 2001 after quitting his job in Pune [...]

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51 card deck to inspire design from Ideo

June 21, 2010

Discovered this eBook on Ideo’s Method Cards at the Healthcare Innovation by Design Blog. From the Ideo website: IDEO Method Cards is a collection of 51 cards representing diverse ways that design teams can understand the people they are designing for. They are used to make a number of different methods accessible to all members [...]

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Reading Bytes for Jun 14

June 14, 2010

Daily updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina Shedding light on the invisible workforce – livemint.com | Indian women contribute more than the official 23% in GDP – CLIP: Women officially contribute 23% of India’s gross domestic product. But their actual contribution [...]

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How twitter helps me dig into work

April 16, 2010

I was asked this question at the Anthrodesign group, in the context of a conversation around getting into the swing of a project and developing some working momentum . I shared there, how I often find myself turning to my blog and twitter communities for helping me with my thinking on qualitative and ethnographic research [...]

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