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IM-TAG: Informal Mentoring Improved by Means of Social Web Contents Tagging

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Information Systems, E-learning, and Knowledge Management Research (WSKS 2011)

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Corporations are facing an era in which human capital is crucial for their sustainability. In such scenario, personnel development is decisive for both personnel and organizations. On the other hand the importance of social web for business is unquestionable in terms of knowledge management and information sharing. This paper presents IM-TAG, a tool to use web 2.0 contents in informal mentoring processes. This tool is based on the processing of semantic tagging of blog contents as well as opinion tagging made by users. The results of the process are recommendations of mentoring contents built upon personal characteristics of the mentee combined with content and opinion tagging.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Av. Universidad 30, Leganés, 28911, Madrid, Spain

    Ricardo Colomo-Palacios & Ángel García-Crespo

  2. Department of Development Psychology and Education, Faculty of Education, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Rector Royo Villanova s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Cristina Casado-Lumbreras

  3. Department of Management & Finance, University of Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30100, Murcia, Spain

    Pedro Soto-Acosta

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  1. The American College of Greece, Agia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

    Da Ruan

  3. College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Robert D. Tennyson

  4. University of Oviedo, Oviedo-Asturias, Spain

    Patricia Ordonez De Pablos

  5. Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Francisco José García Peñalvo

  6. Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Kista, Sweden

    Lazar Rusu

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Colomo-Palacios, R., Casado-Lumbreras, C., García-Crespo, Á., Soto-Acosta, P. (2013). IM-TAG: Informal Mentoring Improved by Means of Social Web Contents Tagging. In: Lytras, M.D., Ruan, D., Tennyson, R.D., Ordonez De Pablos, P., García Peñalvo, F.J., Rusu, L. (eds) Information Systems, E-learning, and Knowledge Management Research. WSKS 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 278. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35879-1_20

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