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Disseminating, Assimilating, and Creating: A Social Knowledge Cycle Model for Non-Profit Organizations
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Vela, Sarah, Forcier, Eric, Rathi, Dinesh, Given, Lisa
This research paper explores how ‘social knowledge’, as an emergent category of organizational knowledge, flows through non-profit organizations (NPOs). Examining findings from qualitative interviews with 16 individual from Canadian NPOs on their use of social media for Knowledge Management (KM),...
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The Shoemaker’s Son: A Substantive Theory of Social Media Use for Knowledge Sharing in Academic Libraries
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In the last decade social media have become integrated in the knowledge sharing practices of libraries. While an entire genre of literature is devoted to the use of social media for promotion (i.e., ‘Library 2.0’), little research has been done on the use of social media for organizational...
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Tools of Engagement for Knowledge Management: Using Social Media to Capture Non-Profit Organizations' Stories
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Rathi, Dinesh, Forcier, Eric, Given, Lisa
Presents results from qualitative interviews with individuals working in non-profit organizations near Edmonton, Alberta. The findings point to the importance of stories as information sources used within the organizations, with social media playing a key role in capturing those stories and...