The active lurker: Influence of an in-house online community on its outside environment

Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-10

  Takahashi, Masamichi ^a   Fujimoto, Masakazu ^a   Yamasaki, Nobuhiro ^a  

^a FUJI XEROX CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Classification; Discussion list; Evaluation; Influence; Lurker; Lurking; Mailing list; Management; Online community; Social capital; Value

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; EVALUATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

DISCUSSION LISTS; INFUENCE; LURKERS; LURKING; MAILING LISTS; ONLINE COMMUNITY; SOCIAL CAPITAL; VALUE;

ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES;

EID: 18744386126     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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