Creating a successful professional virtual community: A sustainable digital ecosystem for idea sharing

2009 3rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, DEST '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 163-167

  Wagner, Christian ^a   Liu, Lily ^b   Schneider, Christoph ^a   Prasarnphanich, Pattarawan ^c   Chen, Huaping ^d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b University of Science and Technology of China   (China)

^c CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Digital ecosystem; Online community; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY IS; COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT; DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM; KEY SUCCESS FACTORS; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY; PROFESSIONAL VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES; TECHNOLOGY ISSUES;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 71649110039     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DEST.2009.5276737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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