Leveraging social software for social networking and community development at events

C and T 2009 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies

Volumn 2009-January, Issue , 2009, Pages 235-244

  Farnham, Shelly D ^a   Brown, Peter T ^a   Schwartz, Jordan L K ^a  

^a Pathable   (United States)

Author keywords

communities of practice; community; conferences; events; social computing; social media; social networking; Social networks; social software; Web 2.0.

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; COMMUNITY; CONFERENCE; EVENT; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SOFTWARE; SOCIAL-NETWORKING; WEB 2.0; WEB 2.0.;

SOCIAL SOFTWARE;

EID: 85028814338     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1556460.1556495     Document Type: Conference Paper

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