Contextual Factors in the Adoption of Social Software: a Case Study
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This papers presents the results of a small field study to identify major barriers to adoption of a social software tool. Gleanr is a Web 2.0 application that can be used for group information management, social bookmarking, and personal research and branding. We present a brief overview of the software and its affordances, describe the study, and reflect on the results as we discuss lessons learned from our first pilot deployment.
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تاریخ انتشار 2010