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

Conference paper (2014)

Authors

A. Bozzon Web Information Systems - EEMCS
G.J.P.M. Houben Web Information Systems - EEMCS
R.H.J. Sips IBM Benelux
Research Group
Web Information Systems (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
User analysis Professional social network
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Published Date

2014

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Software Technology

Research Group

Web Information Systems

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.