Understanding member motivation for contributing to different types of virtual communities: A proposed framework

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference: The Global Information Technology Workforce, SIGMIS-CPR 2007

Volumn 2007, Issue , 2007, Pages 153-158

  Moore, Trevor D ^a   Serva, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blog; Contribution; Forum; Knowledge base; Knowledge sharing; Motivation; Virtual community; Wiki

Indexed keywords

BLOG; CONTRIBUTION; FORUM; KNOWLEDGE SHARING; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; MOTIVATION; TERMINOLOGY;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 34248140557     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1235000.1235035     Document Type: Conference Paper

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