Augmenting the organizational memory: A field study of answer garden

Proceedings of the 1994 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 1994

Volumn , Issue , 1994, Pages 243-252

  Ackerman, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer supported cooperative work; Corporate memory; CSCW; Group memory; Information access; Information retrieval; Information systems; Organizational memory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATA PRIVACY; GROUPWARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES;

CORPORATE MEMORY; CSCW; GROUP MEMORY; INFORMATION ACCESS; ORGANIZATIONAL MEMORY;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0005580130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/192844.193019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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