The view from the trenches: Organization, power, and technology at two nonprofit homeless outreach centers

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 589-598

  Le Dantec, Christopher A ^a   Edwards, W Keith ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative work; Field study; Homeless; Nonprofit

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE WORKS; FIELD STUDIES; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; METROPOLITAN CITIES; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; SOCIAL SERVICE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TECHNICAL EXPERTISE; TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 77950794370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460563.1460656     Document Type: Conference Paper

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