-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] AMCIS2012 CFP: Customer Engagement in Virtual Communities and Virtual Worlds Datum: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:56:58 +0800 Von: Christy Cheung ccheung@hkbu.edu.hk Organisation: Hong Kong Baptist University An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
*AMCIS **2012***
*Track: Virtual Communities and Virtual Worlds*
*Mini-track**: Customer Engagement in Virtual Communities and Virtual Worlds*
18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS2012) 09 - 12 August 2011, Seattle, Washington, USA,http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/
*Introduction:*
The rise of new media channels during the last few years has changed the way consumers communicate and exchange information. Most major companies now build virtual communities and virtual worlds on blogs, Facebook Fan Pages, Twitter, Second Life, and the like in an attempt to manage customer relationships through consumer engagement and participation in these online social platforms. Customers can easily communicate their opinions, exchange product information, and rate companies and their offerings on online product-review communities. They can freely join their favorite online brand communities and engage in those communities through dynamic communication processes (e.g., providing comments on pictures and videos related to the brand or company). Consumers can even be involved in product development as developers solicit input from customers on blogs and virtual worlds. These behavioral expressions by customers reflect their engagement in virtual communities and virtual worlds.
Recently, customer engagement and participation in virtual communities and virtual worlds has become a subject of research in the IS area. The main purpose of this mini-track is to provide a forum for the exchange of research ideas and best practices related to customer engagement in these online social platforms. It also aims to raise awareness in terms of the latest trends and developments in virtual communities and virtual worlds, and address the challenges of encouraging and managing customer engagement in these platforms. This minitrack is open to all types of research, conceptual or empirical. Examples of possible topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
§Models of customer engagement and participation in virtual communities and virtual worlds
§User-generated content in virtual communities and virtual worlds
§Electronic word of mouth and online brand reputation management in virtual communities and virtual Worlds
§Customer engagement and marketing intelligence
§Customer engagement and customer knowledge management
§Customer engagement and prosumers
§Customer relationship management (e.g., satisfaction, trust, loyalty) and customer engagement in virtual communities and virtual worlds
§Social network analysis and customer engagement in virtual communities and virtual worlds
§Platform differentiation and customer engagement effectiveness
§Customer engagement in mobile social platforms
§Legal and ethical aspects of customer engagement in virtual communities and virtual worlds
§Future trends of customer engagement in virtual communities and virtual worlds
*Important Dates* Mar 1, 2012: Deadlineforpapersubmissions April 2, 20012: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date April 20, 2012:Foraccepted papers, camera ready copy due
*Mini-track Chairs:*
Christy M.K. Cheung
Associate Professor
Department of Finance and Decision Sciences
School of Business
Hong Kong Baptist University
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
Tel: +852 3411 2102
Fax: +852 3411 5855
Email: ccheung@hkbu.edu.hk mailto:ccheung@hkbu.edu.hk
Website: www.christycheung.com http://www.christycheung.com/
Bo Sophia Xiao
Assistant Professor
Computing & Information Systems
Department of Computer Science
Hong Kong Baptist University
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
Tel: +852 3411 5818
Email: boxiao@comp.hkbu.edu.hk
Website: http://www.sophiexiao.net/
Matthew K.O. Lee
Chair Professor of E-Commerce & Information Systems
College of Business
City University of Hong Kong
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2 788 7348
Fax: +852 2 788 8192
Email: ismatlee@cityu.edu.hk
Web: http://www.fb.cityu.edu.hk/mlee
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