We examine the role of network externalities on the use of blogs in an organization. Prior
research has considered social influences such as peer pressure, but there is little prior …

Corporate blogs are expected to facilitate communication, knowledge sharing, and
collaborative innovation within organizations. However, empirical evidence has yet to be …

Blogs have emerged as an innovative tool for sharing information and knowledge, and they
command significant interest from information technology (IT) users as well as providers. Our …

In this study, blog data were collected and network parameters were captured to represent
three common measurements of online Word-Of-Mouth: intensity, influence level, and …

This paper describes a preliminary investigation into an internal corporate blogging
community called BlogCentral. We conducted semi-structured interviews with fourteen active …

This three-phased study examines corporate blog use, specifically the impact and value of
blogs on organizational social capital and knowledge sharing at Dell Inc., a global computer …

Weblogs, or blogs are radically changing the face of communication within enterprises.
While at the minimum blogs empower employees to publicly voice opinion and share …

Recently, there has been a dramatic proliferation in the number of blogs; however, little is
published about what motivates people to participate in blog activities. Based on the theory …

Enterprise social media can provide visibility of users' actions and thus has the potential to
reveal insights about users in the organization. We mined large-scale social media use in an …

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 …