Crossings: Embedding personal professional knowledge in a complex online community environment

Online Information Review

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 257-275

  Cranefield, Jocelyn ^a   Yoong, Pak ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Communities; Knowledge management; Knowledge transfer; Professional development; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CROSSING; COMMUNITIES; COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; DEEP KNOWLEDGE; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EMERGING TRENDS; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; OFFLINE; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS; ONLINE RECORDS; PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK; PERSONALISATION; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUALITATIVE METHOD; SENSEMAKING; TEXT ANALYSIS;

CROSSINGS (PIPE AND CABLE); KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; RESEARCH; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 70249093296     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520910951203     Document Type: Article

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