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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Behaviour analysis across different types of Enterprise Online Communities
AU - Rowe, Matthew
AU - Fernandez, Miriam
AU - Alani, Harith
AU - Ronen, Inbal
AU - Hayes, Conor
AU - Karnstedt, Marcel
PY - 2012/6/1
Y1 - 2012/6/1
N2 - Online communities in the enterprise are designed to fulfil some economic purpose, for example for supporting products or enabling work-collaboration between knowledge workers.The intentions of such communities allow them to be labelled based on their type - i.e. communities of practice, team communities, technical support communities, etc. Despite the disparate nature and explicit intention of community types, little is known of how the types differ in terms of a) the participation and activity, and b) the behaviour of community users. Such insights could provide communitymanagers with an understanding of normality and a diagnosis of healthiness in their community, given its type and corresponding user needs. In this paper, we present an empirical analysis of community types from the enterprise social software system IBM Connections. We assess the micro (userlevel) and macro (community-level) characteristics of differing community types and identify key differences in the behaviour that users exhibit in these communities. We furtherqualify our empirical findings with user questionnaires by identifying links between the objectives of the users and the characteristics of the community types.
AB - Online communities in the enterprise are designed to fulfil some economic purpose, for example for supporting products or enabling work-collaboration between knowledge workers.The intentions of such communities allow them to be labelled based on their type - i.e. communities of practice, team communities, technical support communities, etc. Despite the disparate nature and explicit intention of community types, little is known of how the types differ in terms of a) the participation and activity, and b) the behaviour of community users. Such insights could provide communitymanagers with an understanding of normality and a diagnosis of healthiness in their community, given its type and corresponding user needs. In this paper, we present an empirical analysis of community types from the enterprise social software system IBM Connections. We assess the micro (userlevel) and macro (community-level) characteristics of differing community types and identify key differences in the behaviour that users exhibit in these communities. We furtherqualify our empirical findings with user questionnaires by identifying links between the objectives of the users and the characteristics of the community types.
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 978-1-4503-1228-8
SP - 387
EP - 396
BT - ACM Web Science2012 : Conference Proceedings
PB - ACM Press
CY - New York
T2 - Web Science Conference
Y2 - 22 June 2012
ER -