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IJWBC
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
SIOC: an approach to connect web-based communities
: Online communities are islands of people and topics that are not interlinked. Complementary discussions exist on disparate systems but it is currently difficult to exploit the av...
John G. Breslin, Stefan Decker, Andreas Harth, Uld...
CSCW
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
A face(book) in the crowd: social Searching vs. social browsing
Large numbers of college students have become avid Facebook users in a short period of time. In this paper, we explore whether these students are using Facebook to find new people...
Cliff Lampe, Nicole Ellison, Charles Steinfield
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Motivating participation by displaying the value of contribution
One of the important challenges faced by designers of online communities is eliciting sufficent contributions from community members. Users in online communities may have difficul...
Al Mamunur Rashid, Kimberly S. Ling, Regina D. Tas...
ACE
2004
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13 years 9 months ago
From Informal to Formal: Creating the Australasian Computing Education Community
The advent of Web technology has enabled new ways in which groups of people may interact, leading to the development of online communities. In an academic environment these virtua...
Judy Sheard, Angela Carbone
DEBU
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
Community Information Management
We introduce Cimple, a joint project between the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin. Cimple aims to develop a software platform that can be rapidly deployed an...
AnHai Doan, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Fei Chen 0002, Ped...