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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Knowledge Management and Social Media: The Challenges and Benefits<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">I am pleased to announce publication of a Special Issue of the
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t775653688" target="_top" title="Click to go to publication home"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Journal
of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce</span></i></b></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> edited by Dianne Ford & Robert Mason.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Volume 23, issue 1-2, 2013 is comprised of:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="first" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN">*Knowledge Management and Social Media: The Challenges and Benefits<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="first" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN">by Dianne P. Ford & Robert M. Mason<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="first" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN">A Multilevel Perspective of Tensions between Knowledge Management and Social Media<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="first" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN">by Dianne P. Ford & Robert M. Mason<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="first" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN">Knowledge Protection Challenges of Social Media Encountered by Organizations<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="first" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN">by Karin Väyrynen, Riitta Hekkala & Tuula Liias<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="first" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN">Social Media as the Missing Link: Connecting Communities of Practice to Business Strategy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="first" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN">by Hala Annabi & Sean T. McGann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="first" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN">Knowledge Work through Social Media Applications: Team Performance Implications of Immersive Virtual Worlds<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="first" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN">by Mark E. Nissen & Richard D. Bergin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="first" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN">Social Technologies, Informal Knowledge Practices, and the Enterprise<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="first" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN">by Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi & Steve Sawyer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="first" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN">Knowledge and Knowledge Management in the Social Media Age<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="first" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN">Jeff Hemsley & Robert M. Mason<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">These articles are presently available at
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">JOCEC </span>
</i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">is abstracted/indexed in:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> ISI Science Citation Index; ISI Science Citation Index Expanded; Journal Citation
Reports: Science - Computing & Technology; Scopus; INSPEC; Cabell's Directory; PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Please consider
<i>JOCEC</i> as a possible outlet for your own high-quality innovative research dealing with multiparticipant, inter-personal, distributed, organizational, and inter-organizational digital systems.<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Clyde W. Holsapple<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Editor-in-Chief,
</span><a href="http://www.leaonline.com/loi/joce"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#003366;text-decoration:none">Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce</span></i></b></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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