Understanding the role of social media monitoring in generating external intelligence

ACIS 2012 : Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mayeh, Maral ^a   Scheepers, Rens ^a   Valos, Michael ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

External intelligence; Information utilisation; Social media; Social media monitoring

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS VALUE; DYNAMIC EVOLUTION; EXTERNAL INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION UTILISATION; QUALITATIVE APPROACH; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM; SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

MONITORING;

EID: 84878298075     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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