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ethnographers tools

Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools – WordPress

January 5, 2012

Tweet WordPress isn’t just for “Blogging”. WordPress enables the ethnographer to capture a whole new world of information. At Convo we use WordPress for all sorts of things. It’s used for our Website, used for client blographies, for capturing notes, engaging participants etc. Till now, I’ve not been a big mobile WordPress fan. The app [...]

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Apple #iPhone – Please let us upload Photo’s / Videos via iOS Safari

December 29, 2011

Tweet Time to complain about Apple’s highly restrictive iOS Safari policy. Here’s my example – you be the judge. I am visiting a website on my mobile. It has a form that asks for a photo. However the choose photo file button is shaded out. Why? Because iOS Safari doesn’t allow you to upload files [...]

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Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools – Dot and The Looker – 360 Degree Video

December 28, 2011

Tweet Now this is one experimental product I’m hoping to make use of… rather than just having it sitting here. Here’s the problem. You are running a small group interview. Typically the camera or cameras are set up facing in one direction. Usually to capture most of the group, and typically not the moderator. However, [...]

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Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools – Document Scan – Flipchart Capture

December 28, 2011

Tweet Another in this Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools series… making your SmartPhone your best friend in the field… and how to do the job a little better. You have probably used your smart phone to take pictures of the odd flip chart or to capture and remember a document type. Yet later when you look at [...]

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Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools: Coach’s Eye

December 28, 2011

Tweet Another in a series…. identifying useful mobile tools we can use on the job that help us share better later. Most of us have used our mobile video function at some time. Yet when it comes to editing, telling a story around it or representing it in a way that keys in on a [...]

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Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools – Glif+ iPhone4S + Tripod

December 28, 2011

Tweet Who knows what Glif means? It’s certainly cool and I don’t know how long I was waiting for this product to arrive. It seems simple…. you want to mount your iPhone4 or 4s on a tripod and click or video away. For me this gets rid of carrying a Flip around too. The days [...]

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Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools – Audio Note

December 28, 2011

Tweet I’ve decided to publish a short series on mobile tools that can be adapted effectively for the ethnographers craft. Today let’s think about recording the discussion/observations. Typically I use a note book. I write in it and make the odd drawing or sketch. While that’s all happening a digital recorder is usually capturing anything [...]

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Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools – 360 Panorama

December 28, 2011

Tweet With each advance in smartphone tech I seek to find new and easier ways to capture what I actually see in the field. I find that running a video… often doesn’t do it later when telling a story with a visual. Equally, it can be difficult to let people see things through their own [...]

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