Enterprise 2.0 applications, such as blogging systems, are increasingly prevailing in corporate contexts. As intra-organizational blogs are expected to provide a new approaching to building a flexible intra-organizational networking platform which could effectively facilitate knowledge sharing, it is worthwhile to address why and how the employees may accept a blogging system and keep blogging ...

Blogging is popular. It has emerged as a formidable phenomenon that not only draws massive daily following but also shifts the paradigm of human interaction. As a new communication genre, blogging has no specific governing bodies to manage the entity. This raises interesting questions on how is a blogging community being formed and how does it function. Founded on Structuration Theory, this pap...

This paper sets out an approach which we call semantic blogging. We start from the observation that blogging is a highly popular and effective approach to information sharing. We then assert that certain ideas taken from the semantic web research programme can enrich and extend the blogging paradigm. We describe what we mean by semantic blogging, and why this approach is beneficial. We are buil...

Blogs act as knowledge repositories and personalize knowledge management within learning organizations.These knowledge repositories allow capturing and disseminating tacit knowledge which improve task implementations. However, workplace blogging is not popular among academicians as there are not many academicians blog about their working experiences. Thus, this study investigates the causes of ...

Micro-blogs greatly accelerate the information flow on the Internet. Recent studies showed that burst events spread much faster in micro-blogging platform than any other media. Therefore, it is very useful to detect burst events from micro-blogging streams so that we can acquire real-time news events and use them for government and business decision making. Traditional methods of events detecti...

The phenomenon known as Web logging (“blogging”) has helped realize an initial goal of the Web: to turn Web content consumers (i.e., end users) into Web content producers. As the Semantic Web unfolds, we feel there are two questions worth posing: (1) do blog entries have semantic structure that can be usefully captured and exploited? (2) is blogging a natural way to encourage growth of the Sema...

Micro-blogging has emerged as a powerful social medium in spotlight since Twitter launched in the US in 2006, it has already changed the transmission mode of heterogeneous information, and even the interaction patterns both in human behavior and thoughts. More and more companies have launched micro-blogging marketing to communicate with customers, to achieve brand promotion and to form a gorgeo...

Blogging has fast emerged as an unparalleled social computing phenomenon not to be ignored. This paper begins by reviewing the motivation factors for blogging identified in the extant literature. These factors can be broadly classified as either activities-based or behavioral-based. We then propose that a root motivation factor based on the theoretical underpinnings of self identity and social ...

We develop and estimate a dynamic structural framework to analyze social media content creation and consumption behavior by employees within an enterprise. We focus in particular on blogging behavior by employees. The model incorporates two key features, which are ubiquitous in blogging forums: users face a trade-off between blog posting and blog reading as well as a trade-off between work-rela...

Micro-blogging is an emerging internet communication platform based on the social relationships. It can be used to share, disseminate and obtain all kinds of real-time updated information with about 140 words. Currently, micro-blogging becomes more and more popular since users exploit it to achieve a wide variety of social purposes. According to relevant public data, the earliest and most famou...