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BlogCentral: the role of internal blogs at work

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Rachel K. E. Bellamy,

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CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2447 - 2452

https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241022

Published: 28 April 2007 Publication History

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This paper describes a preliminary investigation into an internal corporate blogging community called BlogCentral. We conducted semi-structured interviews with fourteen active bloggers to investigate the role of blogging and its effects on work processes. Our findings suggest that BlogCentral facilitates access to tacit knowledge and resources vetted by experts, and, most importantly, contributes to the emergence of collaboration across a broad range of communities within the enterprise.

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CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2007

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ISBN:9781595936424

DOI:10.1145/1240866

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