Writing Style Impact in the Success of Knowledge Sharing Through Blog

Weblogs, or blogs, have been a significant new development in recent years. The emergence of corporate and academic blogs are great effort for knowledge sharing. But how success these blog in attracting users to read through the blog posts in promoting sharing of knowledge? This project aims at i...

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Main Author: Mazan, Nor Huda
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2009
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Online Access:http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/9183/1/2009%20-%20Writing%20Style%20Impact%20in%20the%20Success%20of%20Knowledge%20Sharing%20through%20Blog.pdf
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Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas
Language: English
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Summary:Weblogs, or blogs, have been a significant new development in recent years. The emergence of corporate and academic blogs are great effort for knowledge sharing. But how success these blog in attracting users to read through the blog posts in promoting sharing of knowledge? This project aims at investigating the role of writing style factors in the success of knowledge sharing through blog. The project also aims to promote knowledge sharing culture people by providing them with a blog as a medium for communication and knowledge transfer. The first part of the paper deals with hypothesis that will be developed and this hypothesis will be proved by creating two wayof writing style which is formal and non formal. The second part shows the results of the analysis on user participation to these kind of writing style that allows us to better understand the role of writing style. The conclusions of this study are based on interpreting the hypothesis that have beenproven by the analysis. The research findings indicate that non-formal writing style positively related to user participation through blog. m