TY - JOUR
T1 - Weblog-technology as a trigger to elicit passion for knowledge
AU - Kaiser, Stephan
AU - Müller-Seitz, Gordon
AU - Lopes, Miguel Pereira
AU - Cunha, Miguel Pina e
PY - 2007/5
Y1 - 2007/5
N2 - The practice of Weblogging as a new social and technological phenomenon in society and business is gaining a growing number of supporters. In short, a Weblog is a website where individual thoughts are publicly displayed in the form of a diary. In this paper, we seek to illustrate the impact of Weblog technology on people's passion for knowledge. We start from the assumption that successful knowledge management requires the engagement of people in knowledge-related practices. We introduce a famous agglomeration of Weblogs that deal with the development of a commercial software. Based on an exploratory study, we suggest that the specific features and character of this novel technology have an impact upon the passion for voluntary knowledge work, which is triggered by experiences of flow states, as well as extrinsic stimuli.
AB - The practice of Weblogging as a new social and technological phenomenon in society and business is gaining a growing number of supporters. In short, a Weblog is a website where individual thoughts are publicly displayed in the form of a diary. In this paper, we seek to illustrate the impact of Weblog technology on people's passion for knowledge. We start from the assumption that successful knowledge management requires the engagement of people in knowledge-related practices. We introduce a famous agglomeration of Weblogs that deal with the development of a commercial software. Based on an exploratory study, we suggest that the specific features and character of this novel technology have an impact upon the passion for voluntary knowledge work, which is triggered by experiences of flow states, as well as extrinsic stimuli.
KW - Flow
KW - Information technology
KW - Knowledge management
KW - Passion
KW - Practice
KW - Weblog
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34247335776&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1350508407076151
DO - 10.1177/1350508407076151
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34247335776
SN - 1350-5084
VL - 14
SP - 391
EP - 412
JO - Organization
JF - Organization
IS - 3
ER -