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...
Online communities of different types have become an important part of the daily internet life of many people within the last couple of years. Both research and business have show...
Blogs, often treated as the equivalence of online personal diaries, have become one of the fastest growing types of Web-based media. Everyone is free to express their opinions and...
Recent years have witnessed the dramatic popularity of online social networking services, in which millions of members publicly articulate mutual "friendship" relations....
This paper extends previous research by proposing a model that can help explain ways to motivate member contributions to online communities (OCs). New features in the model will a...
Steven J. J. Tedjamulia, Douglas L. Dean, David R....