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DEBU
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Challenges in Searching Online Communities
An ever-growing number of users participate in online communities such as Flickr, del.icio.us , and YouTube , making friends and sharing content. Users come to these sites to fin...
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Michael Benedikt, Philip Bohanno...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Utilizing Firm-Hosted Online Communities: Research challenges and needs
The increased popularity of Firm-Hosted Online Communities (FOC) has initiated a radical transformation of customer-producer relationships in many industries with important implic...
Sami Jantunen, Kari Smolander, Sanna Malinen, Tytt...
IJKL
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
Lurking: a challenge or a fruitful strategy? A comparison between lurkers and active participants in an online corporate communi
: For todays organisations to obtain competitive advantages, online corporate Communities of Practice (CoPs) are indispensable. However, often the majority of its participants does...
Mirjam Neelen, Sibren Fetter
AH
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Visualizing Personal Relations in Online Communities
A hard challenge facing developers of online communities is attaining a critical mass of members and subsequently sustaining their participation. We propose a new mechanism for mot...
Andrew Webster, Julita Vassileva
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
After access: challenges facing mobile-only internet users in the developing world
This study reports results of an ethnographic action research study, exploring mobile-centric internet use. Over the course of 13 weeks, eight women, each a member of a livelihood...
Shikoh Gitau, Gary Marsden, Jonathan Donner