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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">2015 Americas Conference on Information Systems</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">El Conquistador Resort, Puerto Rico, August 13-15, 2015</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">Track: Social Computing</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">Mini-track: Social Media within the Organization</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">================================================================</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">DESCRIPTION:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">Social media technologies such as wikis, forums, blogs, podcasts and online social networks have changed the communication landscape
into one based on user-generated content. Because it is changing the way that people create, store and share information, social media is a topic of great importance to future IS research.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">Currently, social media research has focused on activity on public sites such as Twitter and Facebook. However, some firms have tried
to capitalize on the power of social media by incorporating social media technologies into their internal networks. Because social media has the potential to improve work routines and to even change culture within the organization, industry is interested in
the operational and strategic issues involved in its implementation.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">The advantages afforded by social media within the organization will not be realized without overcoming challenges. Organizations must
evaluate their existing business practices and consider significant changes needed to implement social media successfully. The field of IS research must build a rich understanding of both the opportunities and the challenges presented by social media within
the organization. We ask for empirical, theoretical, and conceptual works of any and all methodological approaches.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">SUGGESTED TOPICS:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">Topics relevant for this mini-track include, but are not limited to:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">- Organizational identification
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">- Organizational citizenship behavior
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">- Knowledge management
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">- Workflow in intranet-based social media
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">- Leader emergence
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">- Multi-national project management</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">IMPORTANT DATES AND SUBMISSION INFORMATION:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">- February 25, 2015 at 2 pm EST - Final day for manuscript submissions
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">- April 21, 2015 - Author notification
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">The submission website is: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2015
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">More information about the conference can be found at: http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">MINI-TRACK CHAIRS</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">Kevin Craig</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">Baruch College, City University of New York</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black" lang="FR-CA"><a href="mailto:kcraig@baruch.cuny.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">kcraig@baruch.cuny.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="FR-CA"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black" lang="FR-CA">Shadi Shuraida</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="FR-CA"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">Baruch College, City University of New York</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black"><a href="mailto:shadi.shuraida@baruch.cuny.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">shadi.shuraida@baruch.cuny.edu</span></a></span></div>
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