Dear AoIR-ists, I am writing here to seek some inspiration and suggestions about using social media tools for research purposes, in particular for data management and assessment. In my PhD studies I deal with health behaviour change interventions using new media and social web sites. At the moment I am involved in an SMS and e-mail worskite physical activity programme and I have to manage and look after multiple and distinct databases in different formats and for different purposes as follows: 1) web-based e-mail marketing application and 2) SMS-provider application, for delivering content, 3) contact relationship log file (database), 4) survey assessment tool, 5) regular communication database with Outlook. Needless to say that the situation gets complicated especially due to the amount of time needed to manage all these components. Therefore, I am now looking for simpler, easier to manage possibly interoperable open source solutions that would help me effectively assist in all the intervention phases: content development and delivery, recruitment of participants, online behavior tracking, assessment and evaluation. What applications (preferably open-source, integrateable and inter-operable) would you recommend for doing the following activities? - Communication and content management - Contact relationship management - Online behavior tracking - Qualitative web content analysis (for tracking and analyzing conversations) - Web-based assessment (survey tools) Any suggestion would be most welcome! Thank you, Marco -- Marco Bardus, MA Research Assistant / PhD Student Institute of Communication and Health Faculty of Communication Sciences Università della Svizzera italiana via G. Buffi, 13 CH-6900 Lugano (e) marco.bardus@usi.ch (skype) markusthebardus (w) http://www.ich.com.unisi.ch/ (w) http://www.marcobardus.com (t) +41 58 666 42 94 (m) +41 76 269 09 70