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Dissemination of Information and Online Communities: IV
September 9, 2004
Knowledge may or may not be power and power may or may not be a desirable commodity in the contemporary world. It cannot be denied, however, that information and dissemination of information has become a crucial preoccupation, which has led
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Identities and online communities: III
September 7, 2004
Virtual communities have, on the one hand led to a proliferation of identities where a member of a group could adopt any persona that she choose and discard it to don another identity in the next interaction. On the other
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Do-It-Yourself Communities: II
August 6, 2004
Are there n simple ways to building a community? Could the Do-it-Yourself model be applicable to online communities as well? K-Praxis examines some issues and communities to understand how online communities are designed and built.
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Virtual(ly) communities: I
August 2, 2004
The social sciences and humanities are still grappling with explanations of how communities evolved. There are currently two equally convincing and yet contradictory trends attempting to posit an explanation. While one claims that communities come into being with a common
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Social Networking Software Series
July 6, 2004
Social Networking Software has been in focus, and has been much debated for quite some time. In June 2004, K-Praxis had run a series of articles on SNSs. We are now making this series available as a free download
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Sustaining the SNSs?
June 29, 2004
After the sporadic and optimistic initial investments in Social Networking Software (SNSs), there are now crucial questions as to what sustains the SNSs currently, and what will (or not) continue to sustain them? K-Praxis takes a brief look at the
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Investing in the Internet again?
June 28, 2004
Has the new wave of social networking software learnt from the errors that had made venture capitalists wary of investing in the Internet industry? In this article K-Praxis takes a historical tour from the first phase of Internet investment focusing
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Social Networking Software IV: Conclusions
June 10, 2004
In this final article, we summarize some of our earlier observations, and provide some conclusions about SNS, its relationship with its users, the Internet and sociality. We also propose a few possible ways of improving SNS solutions.
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Social Networking Software III: The Internet as a Medium for SN
June 9, 2004
To continue our discussion of SNS, we take a look at the Internet itself, since this is the medium through which SNS functions. While it is true that several discussions have taken around the Internet, these discussions have tended to
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Social Networking Software I: Background
June 8, 2004
Social Networking Software (SNS) and SN services, and providers, have been the center of much discussion, positive and negative. K-praxis takes an analytical look at social networking software in this series of articles.
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Social Networking Software II: Being Social?
Following up on our previous article, Social Networking Software I Background, this article discusses the possible ways of being social, being socially networked using software, especially on the web. Though some of the software has been around for quite a
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Politics, the Internet and Social Networks
March 17, 2004
Howard Dean’s use of the Internet has generated a lot of interest in social networking, social software, and the relationship between politics and the Internet. We at K-praxis earlier wrote an analysis of Democratic Primaries, we follow up here on
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Democratic Primaries, Howard Dean, Election Campaign Management, And Information Intelligence - PART I
December 30, 2003
As the US politics heads towards New Hampshire Democratic Primaries and Clark and Dean emerge as frontrunners, K-Praxis is starting a series on Election Campaign Management and Information Intelligence. This article looks at some of the traditional campaign management solutions.
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Organizational Relationship Network Analysis vis-a-vis Experts & Expertise Management
August 8, 2003
Recently there has been some buzz about a "new class" of technologies that could very well be dubbed as "automated & intelligent social and collaborative network analysis": technology that can help you leverage and analyze networks of people within and
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