The future of professional communities of practice

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 22 LNBIP, Issue , 2009, Pages 144-158

  Turoff, Murray ^a   Hiltz, Starr Roxanne ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Emergency management; Information overload; Professional communications; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

CIVIL DEFENSE; DISASTERS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT;

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION OVERLOAD; PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIONS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 70349547067     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01256-3_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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