<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Journal of Enterprise
Information Management (JEIM) invites submission of quality manuscripts for its
<b>Special Issue on Social Media in
Business and Education</b>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Introduction</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">JEIM strives to publish high
quality articles of significant intellectual interest and commercial relevance
to managers, consultants, lecturers and students operating within business
enterprise environments. All papers submitted to JEIM are initially filtered by
the Editor and then subjected to rigorous review by a team of qualified
internationally acknowledged academics. JEIM now has a history of contributing
to the normative literature, providing conceptual and practical insights and
generating innovative ideas from recent research into organizational enterprise.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">JEIM (ISSN#1741-0398)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=jeim"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0007f1">http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=jeim</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">) is currently in its 25th year of publication, is
published and distributed six (6) printed issues a year by Emerald Group
Publishing Ltd in UK. The journal aims to publish articles that will be of
value and interest to business managers, consultants, teachers and students
concerned with issues of enterprise and management. In all cases, the aim is to
feature practical applications.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Special Issue Scope</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The aim of the Special
Edition is<b><span style="color:#0070c0"> </span></b>to<b><span style="color:#0070c0"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">explore Web 2.0 & Web 3.0 technologies,
including Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Wikis and YouTube, etc, for business and
education exploitation. The next generation of social media will involve social
networking, document sharing, collaboration and interoperability. JEIM will
consider evolving managerial, academic and pedagogical approaches and raise the
profile of research in technology-enhanced applications; spread good practice
in the use of Web 2.0 & Web 3.0 technologies for business and learning; and
facilitate collaboration between practitioners, researchers, and policy makers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Coverage</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">To
ensure that the JEIM has the most comprehensive, current and relevant coverage
of all topics related to <b>Social Media in
Business and Education</b>, we are inviting researchers and leading experts in
their particular areas of research to contribute manuscripts that offer an
in-depth discussion of the key issues, concepts and trends related to this
special issue topic. All manuscripts should be formatted according to the JEIM <a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=jeim"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">submission
guidelines</span></a> – see URL below.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Manuscripts
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">for the Special Issue on <b>Social Media in Business and Education</b> will include, but are not
limited to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:17.85pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Web 2.0 &
Web 3.0 in business/education</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:17.85pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Enterprise 2.0</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:17.85pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Impact of Web
2.0 on </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">organisational</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> strategies</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:17.85pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">e-Learning and
Social Media</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:17.85pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Social Computing
and social networks</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:17.85pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Facebook in
business/education</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:17.85pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Micro-blogs and
Twitter in business/education</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:17.85pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Wikis in
business/education</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:17.85pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Blogs in
business/education</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:17.85pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">YouTube in business/education</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:17.85pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Collaboration and
KM using Web 2.0 in business/education</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:17.85pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Mashups based
inter-</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">organisational</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> collaborative services</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:17.85pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Semantic web
applications and developments</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:17.85pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The future of
Virtual Learning Environments</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:17.85pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The future of
the “university lecture”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Important Dates</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Manuscripts
must be submitted to the guest editors, no later than <b><span style="color:#c00000">September 21<sup>st</sup>, 2012</span></b>, with
publication date, early 2013.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Submissions
to: <a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jeim" target="_blank" title="blocked::http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jeim">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jeim</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><a name="_GoBack"></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Guest Editors</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></b></p>
<table class="MsoTableGrid" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin-left:5.4pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none">
<tbody><tr>
<td width="288" valign="top" style="width:216.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ray Hackney</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Brunel Business School</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Brunel University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Middlesex, UB8 3PH</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Email: </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="mailto:ray.hackney@brunel.ac.uk"><span lang="EN-US">ray.hackney@brunel.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> <span lang="EN-US"></span></span></p>
</td>
<td width="288" valign="top" style="width:216.35pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Chris Evans</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Brunel
Business School</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Brunel
University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Middlesex, UB8
3PH</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Email: </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="mailto:chris.evans@brunel.ac.uk"><span lang="EN-US">chris.evans@brunel.ac.uk</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table><div><br></div>-- <br><br>