{"id":655,"date":"2015-03-28T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T11:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elexent.com\/?p=655"},"modified":"2015-03-29T07:14:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T07:14:10","slug":"english-leaders-in-online-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.elexent.com\/en\/english-leaders-in-online-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders in online communities"},"content":{"rendered":"In online communities, tremendous work can be done without formal control structures, hierarchy or control mechanisms. Online communities are loosely coordinated, self-organizing and voluntary.<br \/>\nLeaders in online communities are not the one having the greatest number of postings, or queries answered, though participation and tenure are important factors, positively correlated with leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders are recognized for their independent judgment and expertise.<\/p>\n<p>They have more interaction with members of the community than any other members.<\/p>\n<p>Source : \u201cLeading knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities\u201d, S. kudaravallu, S. Faraj &amp; M. Wasko, <em>MIS Quarterly<\/em>, 2015.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In online communities, tremendous work can be done without formal control structures, hierarchy or control mechanisms. Online communities are loosely coordinated, self-organizing and voluntary. Leaders in online communities are not the one having the greatest number of postings, or queries answered, though participation and tenure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elexent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elexent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elexent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elexent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elexent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.elexent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"http:\/\/www.elexent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elexent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elexent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elexent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elexent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}