The Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative was a successful e-learning pilot project that promoted collaboration between policy classes at U.S. universities and the Wikipedia online social network. Incentives for participation included new media literacy development, collaborative learning and...

Condoms are an important contraceptive method in Turkey, used by one in three couples using modern methods. However, withdrawal remains the most common form of contraception, resulting in many unwanted pregnancies. To address this issue and increase condom use in Turkey, DKT International, a...

This study examines the personal determinants of Web 2.0 applications usage in Kuwait. The analyses revealed that: (1) Web 2.0 attitudes had a significant, positive influence on all dimensions of Web 2.0 usage but one, variety of use, (2) there were no differences between males and females in...

Key to success in negotiation is managing and enhancing relationships. This concept can be difficult to convey in short-term executive training courses where students have little time for relational development. Not to worry: the authors assert that by strategically using online communication...

Traditional pre-publication peer review of scientific output is a slow, inefficient, and unreliable process. Efforts to replace or supplement traditional evaluation models with open evaluation platforms that leverage advances in information technology are slowly gaining traction, but remain in...

The success of companies such as Myspace and YouTube have focused attention on online companies that are quickly building their business model on participative media, leveraging a set of new social-based technologies, dubbed "Web 2.0". This article describes the quickly emerging social behavior...

Due to the increasing number of users and powerful web-based tools available today on social networks such as Facebook, several companies are focusing on the marketing opportunities social media can provide. In fact, the presence on a social network such as Facebook provides the firm with a...

The internet has brought about many exciting opportunities for an easy and convenient exchange of information worldwide. The number of forums and online portals allowing users to give and discuss their opinions on a wide variety of products is rapidly rising. While at first the focus was on the...

We present a recommendation system for social media that draws upon monitoring and prediction methods. We use historical posts on some focal topic or historical links to a focal blog channel to recommend a set of authors to follow. Such a system would be useful for brand managers interested in...

How valuable, and at the same time, how respective of privacy is the Web? This paper uses conjoint techniques to assess how online users make the trade-off between use of free online applications and the desire to protect their privacy. While a large number of Web users are indeed greatly...