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After the WCC 2010 decided to cancel all workshops we could place our publication in another track of the WCC 2010 conference (Key Competencies in the Knowledge Society). The title of the paper is: “Getting Granular on Twitter: Tweets from a Conference and their Limited Usefulness for Non-Participants”.

Abstract:

The use of microblogging applications (especially Twitter) is becoming increasingly commonplace in a variety of settings. Today, active conference participants can post messages on microblogging platforms to exchange information quickly and in real-time. Recent research work was based on quantitative analyses in terms of the number of tweets or active Twitter users within a specific time period. In this paper, we examine the content of the contributions and aim to analyze how useful posts are for the “listening” Internet auditorium. It can be shown that only a few microblogs are of interest for non-participants of the specific event and that meaningful usage of a microblogging application requires greater care than previously anticipated.

Final draft:

You can find the final draft of our paper on Scribd.
Getting Granular on Twitter: Tweets from a Conference and their Limited Usefulness for Non-Participants

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This week I had the opportunity to present the idea of Artefact-Actor-Networks at the CollaborateCom 2009 conference in Washington D.C. – a conference mainly focussing on collaborative computing and its applications in networking and at the workplace.
Abstract:

Social networks reflect communication, cooperation and loose acquaintances in networked communities. Numerous metrics allow to expose connections, important persons or clusters within these communities. Furthermore, networks can be spanned to connect documents, blog entries or wiki articles. We call such a network an artefact network. In this paper we introduce the approach of Artefact-Actor-Networks that tries to connect social networks and artefact networks in order to make claims on the semantical connections between persons and manifold artefacts. We present practical use cases for Artefact- Actor-Networks and discuss generic and specific semantical requirements and added values through the existence of Artefact-Actor-Networks.

Reference: W. Reinhardt, M. Moi, and T. Varlemann: Artefact-Actor-Networks as tie between social networks and artefact networks. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom’09), November 2009.

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Today I submitted a paper for this year ICIQ, held in Potsdam, Germany for the first time after a period of conferences at MIT. Together with a former student of mine we present an empirical study we conducted last year. We identified a wiki-set of criteria for assessing the information quality of wiki articles.

Abstract:

Wikis gain more and more attention as tool for corporate knowledge management. The usage of corporate wikis differs from public wikis like the Wikipedia as there are hardly any wiki wars or copyright issues. Nevertheless the quality of the available articles is of high importance in corporate wikis as well as in public ones. This paper presents the results from an empirical study on criteria for assessing information quality of articles in corporate wikis. Therefore existing approaches for assessing information quality are evaluated and a specific wiki-set of criteria is defined. This wiki-set was examined in a study with participants from 21 different German companies using wikis as essential part of their knowledge management toolbox. Furthermore this paper discusses various ways for the automatic and manual rating of information quality and the technical implementation of such an IQ-profile for wikis.

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