"This book will increase knowledge and understanding of applications and usage of e-health communities for self-help groups who struggle with health disorders, disabilities, lifestyle issues and other health concerns"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book seeks to accelerate the collective understandings and implications on the management of business organizations; with an emphasis on theoretical explanations on the development of feral information systems"--Provided by publisher.

1. How the Crowd Can Teach -- 2. Social Networking and Schools: Early Responses and Implications for Practice -- 3. Cyber-Identities and Social Life in Cyberspace -- 4. Weblogs in Higher Education -- 5. Social Navigation and Local Folksonomies: Technical and Design Considerations for a Mobile...

"This book takes a critical look at IT Governance challenges in a world that is becoming increasingly networked. IT firms are becoming increasingly reliant on alliances and partnerships to generate new value"--Provided by publisher.

This book draws on the experience of people who have worked with CoPs and presents their combined wisdom in a form that is accessible to a wide audience. CoPs are examined from a practica view. The book also examines the benefits that CoPs can bring to an organization, provides a number of case...

A Knowledge Strategy Oriented Framework for Classifying Knowledge Management Tools / Gianluca Elia -- Social Software for Bottom-Up Knowledge Networking and Community Building / Mohamed Amine Chatti -- Weaving a Knowledge Web with Wikis / Kevin R. Parker, Joseph T. Chao -- Media Centric...

Throughout history, the permeation of new technologies have assisted communities in their aim to collectively work together in addressing shared problems for the attainment of specific goals and outcomes. This book broadly examines what constitutes social capital in geographical communities and...

An interdisciplinary field, technology and culture, or social informatics, is part of a larger body of socio-economic, socio-psychological, and cultural research that examines the ways in which technology and groups within society are shaped by social forces within organizations, politics,...

The importance of semantics has been recognized in different areas of data and information management, including better access, exchange, interoperability, integration, and analysis of data. Semantics of data is about associating meaning to data, understanding what data represents, and improving...

"This book explores various individual user-driven strategies that assist in solving multiple clinical system problems in healthcare, using social networking to improve their healthcare outcomes"--Provided by publisher.