Herb Heskeths Weblog

Had a meeting with Mary today @ 2:00pm to discuss the progress on the project. I managed to complete a draft copy of the proposed contacts which I will be surveying; just before 2:00pm so I was able to show Mary what I had been doing since last Friday on the project. Mary made a few suggestions, some of these suggestions were: I should look at sending my survey to Nelson businesses, an example could be Sealords, rather than having three separate e-mail contacts for Gen-i, I should just concentrate on contacting the Nelson Gen-i which provides NMIT with technical support, to get the e-mail addresses for this contact it was suggested that I talk to Mark Caukill or Ryan Clarke, as they would know. When I have written a confirmation letter to the businesses, I should send a copy to Mary, and Clare Atkins, as they will e-mail somebody at IBM.

I should design a e-mail for confirmation for the businesses, letting them know that I will be sending them the link to web-based survey in the future, but do not allow room for a reply from the businesses. Mary said that this is not important at the moment as it is more important to focus on the design of the survey questions and literature review.

Mary made the suggestion that since the contact list can be added to at anytime I should focus my efforts on constructing the survey, designing the questions, writing in the research methods section of the report why I decided on creating the questions, the process of how I went about getting the contacts e-mail addresses for the contact list, writing background information on the data security technologies which will be involved with the literature review, I will aim to get a rough design ready for next Monday, where I will be meeting Mary at 1:00pm.

The contact list should not be included in the appendix, as this will be breaching the confidentiality of the businesses. Instead explain the process of how I went about finding the contacts.

The research question has now changed to: Data Security in New Zealand E-Businesses. As the E-Commerce businesses are way too hard to find, and the people of the website selling there services would not know the information for the survey questions anyway.

Thats all for now,

I will update this blog with new information when I get it.

Cheers,

Herb