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Knowledge is widely recognised as a critical organisational resource irrespective of economic sector or type of organisation (Stewart 1997; Sveiby 1997; Davenport & Prusak 1998). It is difficult, if not impossible, to maximise the value of this resource without adequate understanding of how to leverage and share knowledge throughout the organisation. This paper seeks to promote this understanding by first discussing trends in knowledge management (KM) and examining the emerging role of online communities (OLCs). This review of existing literature leads to the development of various hypotheses as ...
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Online communities become more and more powerful tool for interacting among Internet-users. Over and above specific tools for communicating and sending mails to each other, chats and conference rooms, different kinds of websites where commenting is enabled (or other kind of TextField available for users filling in) can be used as site for interacting. The exsistense of such sites is always supported with communities of people who have similar goals, life experience, beliefs and values. In this paper two types of participants in such communities are considered: - ' elders ', ... Read More
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This concept paper explores issues of social ecologies and financial economies at the intersection of information and communication technologies and institutions of higher education with particular attention to the significance of reliable and credible information in the emerging knowledge economy. Broad in scope, this inquiry identifies interrelated trends that, it is argued, must be considered in combination when considering the potential evolutionary paths institutions of higher education currently face. Digital Discernment and the Future of Higher Education How many of us have imagined what it must have been like to have ...
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Here is a quick article about the reasons why people participate in communities, based on the work of two communication researchers, Joseph Lampel and Ajay Bhalla (2007). These two researchers found four main sources of motivation : altruism, reciprocity, status affirmation and status seeking. Altruism Or the deliberate pursuit of the interests or welfare of others or the public interest (Wikipedia), in this particular case, the community interest. Believe it or not, I truly think some people participate selflessly. (I personally know some and they are not communists ) Reciprocity The community gave you something (a piece of ...
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Increasing participation in online communities: A framework for human–computer interaction. Jonathan Bishop *. University of Glamorgan, School of Humanities ...
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America participated! 72 percent of households participated in the 2010 Census by mail -- the same rate achieved in Census 2000. Now census takers begin the task of going door-to-door to obtain census responses in person. Open your door to the census taker -- we can't move forward until you give your answers back! Displayed data as of: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 * * The rates displayed are the rates achieved by Tuesday, April 27, 2010, prior to the cut-off for door-to-door non response follow-up operations. Final rates will be posted in the fall and will include late mail returns. Why Mail "Participation" Rate Is A ...
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For all the new and improved channels of relating are we any better at it - at relating to one another? By all measures that I consider dear to humanity - such as kindness, love, compassion, decency, helping one another, making certain no one is left behind or out in the cold - are we evolving up or down the scale of those measures as we incresingly connect virtually, not face to face? Are we conscious of any trends? Forums. Social networking technology. Email. Video phones. Cell phones alway on us. Blackberries. Wifi. Is a new psychology of what it means to be human or to be in relationship arising? New stresses? Close a forum ...
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