<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14pt;text-align:justify">The Journal of Enterprise Information Management (JEIM) invites submission of quality manuscripts for its </span><b style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14pt;text-align:justify">Special Issue on Social Media in Business and Education</b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14pt;text-align:justify">.</span><div class="gmail_quote">
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<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">The aim of the Special Edition is<b><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)"> </span></b>to<b><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)"> </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>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Coverage</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14pt;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" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">submission guidelines</span></a> – see URL below.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Manuscripts </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;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>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">        </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Web 2.0 & Web 3.0 in business/education</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 17.85pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">        </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Enterprise 2.0</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 17.85pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">        </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Impact of Web 2.0 on </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">organisational</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> strategies</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;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>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">JEIM (ISSN#1741-0398)</span></p><div><span style="text-align:justify;font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=jeim" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(0,7,241)">http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=jeim</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align:justify;font-size:14pt;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> </div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Manuscripts must be submitted to the guest editors, no later than <b><span style="color:rgb(192,0,0)">September 21^st, 2012</span></b>, with publication date, early 2013.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Submissions to: <a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jeim" title="blocked::http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jeim" target="_blank">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jeim</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></p>
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<tbody><tr><td width="288" valign="top" style="width:216pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Ray Hackney</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Brunel Business School</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Brunel University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Middlesex, UB8 3PH</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Email: </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><a href="mailto:ray.hackney@brunel.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">ray.hackney@brunel.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-size:14pt;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"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Chris Evans</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Brunel University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Middlesex, UB8 3PH</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Email: </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><a href="mailto:chris.evans@brunel.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">chris.evans@brunel.ac.uk</span></a></span></p>
</td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:19px"><b>NB</b></span></font> Ray Hackney will be at PACIS2012 (Hochiminh City, Vietnam) should you wish to discuss your proposed submission</div>
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