A study of the online profile of enterprise users in professional social networks

Alessandro Bozzon; Hariton Efstathiades; Geert Jan Houben; Robert Jan Sips

doi:10.1145/2567948.2576938

A study of the online profile of enterprise users in professional social networks

Alessandro Bozzon, Hariton Efstathiades, Geert Jan Houben, Robert Jan Sips

Web Information Systems

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Abstract

Understanding the impact of corporate information publicly distributed on the Web is becoming more and more crucial. In this paper we report the result of a study that involved 130 IBM employees: we explored the correctness and extent of organisational information that can be observed from the online profiles of a company's employees. Our work con- Tributes new insights to the study of social networks by showing that, even by considering a small fraction of the available online data, it is possible to discover accurate infor- mation about an organisation, its structure, and the factors that characterise the social reach of their employees.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	WWW 2014 Companion - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	487-492
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450327459
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2567948.2576938
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	23rd International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2014 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 7 Apr 2014 → 11 Apr 2014

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Conference	23rd International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2014
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	7/04/14 → 11/04/14

Keywords

Professional social network
User analysis

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Bozzon, A, Efstathiades, H, Houben, GJ & Sips, RJ 2014, A study of the online profile of enterprise users in professional social networks. in WWW 2014 Companion - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, pp. 487-492, 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2014, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 7/04/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2567948.2576938

A study of the online profile of enterprise users in professional social networks. / Bozzon, Alessandro; Efstathiades, Hariton; Houben, Geert Jan et al.
WWW 2014 Companion - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014. p. 487-492.

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