Wiki anxiety: Impediments to implementing wikis for IT support groups

CHIMIT 09 - Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction for Management of Information Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 64-67

  White, Kevin F ^a   Gurzick, David ^a   Lutters, Wayne G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Document repositories; IT support; Knowledge management; Wikis

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL MASS; DOCUMENT REPOSITORIES; IT SUPPORT; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; OVER POTENTIAL; WEB TECHNOLOGIES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 74049127844     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1641587.1641597     Document Type: Conference Paper

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