Dear All, As I am going to develop a new course social computing for business. I would like to hear from those colleagues who have taught this course and give me some suggestions on this topic, especially on the material and assessment method. I will summarize the result and make my syllabus public. Here is my draft syllabus, I would like to hear from you. The introduction and power of social computing Social computing side of information technology usage within the organization Web 2.0 and virtual communities Communities of practices Communities of practices and organizational learning Virtual community participation Online social networking for business Business values of virtual worlds Knowledge management of virtual communities User-Generated content: web and text miningng Regards, Honglei Li 李红蕾 Dr. Honglei Li -------------------------------------------------------- Lecturer in Information Systems School of Business and Economics Swansea University Singleton Park Swansea SA2 8PP Wales, UK Phone: +44 01792 295680 (O) +44 0787 2653330 (M) E-mail:HongleiLi@gmail.com <E-mail%3AHongleiLi@gmail.com>; H.Li@swansea.ac.uk