Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 1.1 Industry (General)

  • Micro-Blogging Adoption in the Enterprise: An Empirical Analysis [WI 2011]

    Micro-Blogging Adoption in the Enterprise: An Empirical Analysis [WI 2011]

    Abstract: Given the increasing interest in using social software for company-internal communication and collaboration, this paper examines drivers and inhibitors of micro-blogging adoption at the workplace. While nearly one in two companies is currently planning to introduce social software, there is no empirically validated research on employees’ adoption. In this paper, we build on previous…

  • OpenOffice.org at Oracle After The Sun Acquisition

    Yesterday, I participated in the local JUG’s discussion of the Sun acquisition by Oracle. Somewhat to my surprise, the general opinion was dismissive of OpenOffice’s future at Oracle. I haven’t spent much prior thought on this, but to me, OpenOffice seems to fit much better with Oracle than with Sun, at least on a strategic…

  • Pre-test Survey on What Drives Enterprise Micro-blogging Adoption

    My collaborators on the Enterprise Micro-blogging Adoption study at the Humboldt University of Berlin are at it again. In this second step, we are working to refine our understanding of what drives micro-blogging adoption in the enterprise. For this, we are looking for participants in a short pre-test survey. Here the survey summary: You are…

  • Patterns of Effective Tweeting and Retweeting

    These are patterns and practices of getting the most out of your 140 characters on Twitter. dirkriehle: Examples are in-lined using blockquote like this; the author is named first Table of Contents General Principles Informational Messages Directed Conversations Social Filtering Global Communication

  • A Twitter Best Practice

    There are many best practices of using Twitter for organizations. Here is one; I may post others in loose order as I have good examples at hand. I was attending IBM’s NPUC:09. Like many, my first reaction when I’m unhappy these days is to tweet about it. dirkriehle: Almaden is a great location, on top…

  • Summary and Translation of Microblogging Can Enhance Productivity Interview

    Courtesy of SAP, here an English-language summary translation of the interview with Oliver Günther on micro-blogging and productivity. Originally: “Das Microblogging kann die Produktivität durchaus steigern.” Computer Zeitung, June 15, 2009. The integration of micro-blogging in corporations makes sense, concludes a project by SAP Research in Palo Alto and the Institute for Business Informatics at…