Short message discussions: On the conversational nature of microblogging in a large consultancy organisation

PACIS 2011 - 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Quality Research in Pacific

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Riemer, Kai ^a   Diederich, Stephan ^a,b   Richter, Alexander ^c   Scifleet, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enterprise microblogging; Platform appropriation; Social software; Yammer

Indexed keywords

CAPGEMINI; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; GROUP PROCESS; INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS; MICROBLOGGING; PLATFORM APPROPRIATION; SHORT MESSAGE; SOCIAL SOFTWARE; YAMMER;

COMMUNICATION; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84855841581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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