"With my head up in the clouds": Using social tagging to organize knowledge

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 318-349

  Panke, Stefanie ^a   Gaiser, Birgit ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Helmholtz Society   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collaborative metadata; Folksonomy; Knowledge management; Social software; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349322716     PISSN: 10506519     EISSN: 15524574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1050651909333275     Document Type: Article

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