Adoption of social software for collaboration

Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, MEDES'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 246-251

  Zhang, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blog; Collaboration; IT adoption; Social software; Wiki

Indexed keywords

BLOG; COLLABORATION; IT ADOPTION; SOCIAL SOFTWARE; WIKI;

ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INTERNET;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 79952399494     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1936254.1936301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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