Web logs (or blogs) have become a means for citizens to share opinions and deliberate on local issues. However, the large number of blogs makes finding and exploring content of interest relatively difficult. This discovery problem presumably also limits participation by interested citizens. We present a tool to display a representation of citizen-to-citizen discussion in blogs that reveals simi...

I this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a firm’s proactive management of customer-to-customer communication. We are particularly interested in understanding how, if at all, the firm should go about effecting meaningful word-of-mouth (WOM) communications. To tackle this problem, we collect data from two sources: (1) we implement a large-scale field test in which a national firm created...

introduction: customer satisfaction has been suggested as one of the interesting and challenging issues of management in the new millennium. in addition, oral and dental health and the quality of the services the health centers delivered to the patients directly affect the customer satisfaction. therefore, the present study aimed to identify, investigate, and rank the factors affecting the cust...