The increasing popularity of Web 2.0 has led to exponential growth of user-generated
content in both volume and significance. One important type of user-generated content is the …

This is a case study about the early adoption and use of micro-blogging in a Fortune 500
company. The study used several independent data sources: five months of empirical micro …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how four enterprise social media (ESM)
affordances (visibility, association, editability and persistence) affect social network ties …

Purpose–The rapid growth of blogs over the Internet has gradually attracted the attention of
enterprises that want to engage in business and develop their online communication …

Increasingly, large organizations are experimenting with internal social media (eg, blogs,
forums) as a platform for widespread distributed collaboration. Contributions to their …

The" blogosphere" has been claimed to be a densely interconnected conversation, with
bloggers linking to other bloggers, referring to them in their entries, and posting comments …

Introduction Human innovation, in combination with the internet, networking, and
communications technologies have produced a new platform for social and business …

The chapter reviews research techniques commonly used in the study of blogs and micro-
blogs, including both quantitative and qualitative analyses. Using published studies as …

The attention economy motivates participation in peer-produced sites on the Web like
YouTube and Wikipedia. However, this economy appears to break down at work. We …

An analysis of links among US weblogs is done to examine the interpersonal social network
and social connections among US cities. Drawing 4,241 weblogs from the NITLE census …