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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Additional information on this project and extended case studies will be published in a forthcoming book, Science on the Internet (Olson, Zimmerman, & Bos, 2007). Educational projects can make use of specialized e-learning software, but there are often tradeoffs involved. Virtual Community of Practice.

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IBM SJ 45-4 | Ethnographic study of collaborative knowledge work

Buzz Marketing for Technology

We conducted this study over a six-month period in 2003 and 2004 at five different business sites in the Boston area. Some processes were simple, such as “how to reserve the LCD projector for a meeting” or “how to submit a book purchase order.” Approach and tools. For example, if the new employee is not a U.S.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In fact, you can validate that by cross checking my user ID, 102991, which should indicate that I’ve been around for a real long time (since February 2004, to be more precise). How can Facebook not be compared to Instant Messaging? and I felt the same way as you did. Who needed that? We all do now.

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