Selecting an effective niche: An ecological view of the success of online communities

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 301-310

  Zhu, Haiyi ^a   Chen, Jilin ^b   Matthews, Tara ^b   Pal, Aditya ^b   Badenes, Hernan ^c   Kraut, Robert E ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c SilverGate Team   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Online communities; Success; Topic overlap; Workplace

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY; FOUR DIMENSIONS; INTERNAL FACTORS; MIXED METHOD; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; SUCCESS; TOPIC OVERLAP; WORKPLACE;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84900423485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557348     Document Type: Conference Paper

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