Community Insights: Helping community leaders enhance the value of enterprise online communities

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 513-522

  Matthews, Tara ^a   Whittaker, Steve ^b   Badenes, Hernan ^c   Smith, Barton A ^a   Muller, Michael ^d   Ehrlich, Kate ^d   Zhou, Michelle X ^a   Lau, Tessa ^e  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SilverGate Team   (Argentina)

^d IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^e Willow Garage Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Community leaders; Enterprise; Iterative design; Online communities; System evaluation; Workplace

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY LEADERS; ITERATIVE DESIGN; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; SYSTEM EVALUATION; WORKPLACE;

DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INDUSTRY; WEBSITES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84877963080     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2470728     Document Type: Conference Paper

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