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

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

Conference Paper (2014)

Author(s)

Alessandro Bozzon (TU Delft - Web Information Systems)

Hariton Efstathiades (Student TU Delft)

Geert Jan Houben (TU Delft - Web Information Systems)

Robert Jan Sips (IBM Benelux)

User analysis Professional social network

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2567948.2576938 Final published version

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Publication Year

2014

Language

English

Pages (from-to)

487-492

ISBN (electronic)

9781450327459

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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.