International Journal of Web Based Communities special issue: "Social Networking for Web-Based Communities"

International Journal of Web Based Communities 9(1) 2013

• Social networking for web-based communities
• Blog quality model
• Empowering processes within prostate cancer online support groups
• Beyond knowledge sharing: interactions in online discussion communities
• Managing virtual communities of practice to drive product innovation
• Towards the development of activities-oriented platforms serving communities of practice
• Streaming trend detection in Twitter
• Culture and brand communications in social media: an exploratory analysis of Japanese and US brands
• Blogs, wikis and social networking sites: a cross institutional survey amongst Greek students