This would allow for carrying out of the research faster with the rate of feedback being enhanced too (BBB,2010).
It is important for weblogs to be structured in a manner that allows for the logical presentation of the research questions and views. The fact that respondents do have experienced a lack of time, have a lot of personal demands (such as travel) and demand the weblogs to have high quality posts as outlined by Instone (2005) means that the researcher must come up with a way of structuring the blog to capture his or her research parameters while paying attention to the respondent's perception and possible reaction.
In regards to the management of the communications that takes place of the weblog, it is important for the researchers to upgrade their blogs so as to keep up the fellow bloggers updated. This is because failure to do so leads to a lag in the rate of information dissemination to the respondents which result in delays in response and "loss" of respondents (Stoltenkamp and Mapuva,2010).
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