Encouraging participation in virtual communities: The “IT-summit-blog” case

Proceedings IADIS International Conference e-Society, ES 2007 - Part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, MCCSIS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 245-254

  Broß, Justus ^a   Sack, Harald ^a   Meinel, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital democracy; E Citizenship; E Government; Knowledge management; Social media; Virtual community participation; Web 2.0; Web based services

Indexed keywords

BLOGS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS; CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS; GERMAN GOVERNMENT; PLANNING PHASE; SUCCESS FACTORS; USER-GENERATED; VIRTUAL COMMUNICATION; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 65949103934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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