Editors:
Prof. Eldon Y. Li, National Chengchi University, Taiwan and
Dr. Cain Evans, Birmingham City University, UK


Call for Chapters:
Proposals Submission Deadline: January 9, 2011
Full Chapters Due: February 15, 2011
Submission Date: May 15, 2011

Introduction
E-Business has changed the landscape for good; the technologies that support an online presence have become more complex and organisationally specific. Differentiating between Social Media technologies like social networking, blogging, Social Web, Web x.0, Social Semantics, and large-scale embedded web applications is an important step to understanding the future of organisational needs of businesses.

Social Media technology can augment the virtual organization’s competitive advantage in the marketplace, but its effective utilization requires planning and vision. Understanding the links between front-end rich internet media websites and the flow between business systems is an important step to streamlining requirements, resources, capital investment and management of the E-Business transformation programme. Businesses must become wise about the role of social media technology and implement the right technology at the right time and at the right pace.

Businesses today tend to be led by customer expectations and their online business systems tend to be supported by web technologies. An organization must understand its needs before implementing a strategy; little is to be gained by going ahead with an E-Business transformation without including the technology which will underpin the whole customer experience.

The Overall Objective of the Book
The mission of the book is to provide broad research and applied coverage of subjects relating to all areas of Social Media and E-Business transformation and their interaction with users of the social technology. Providing a platform for the exchange of research ideas and best practices, this book is a reference and a convergence point for professionals, managers, and researchers in E-Business together with IT professionals. It also aims to explore the opportunities and challenges confronting organizations utilizing 21st century online business web tools and platforms.

The Target Audience
The target audience of this book will be professionals and researchers working in the field of E-Business, social marketing, online collaborative communities, Web X.0, semantic web, trust of social media technology, and social media analytics. Moreover, the book will provide insight and support to executives concerned with the management of using social media for business. The book is also aimed towards an academic audience (teachers, researchers, and students, undergraduate and post-graduate studies).

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Business Process Management
Intelligent Agents
Networked Enterprise
Open Source Social Media
SaaS
SOA
Social (network) Marketing
Social Cloud
Social CRM
Social Media in E-Business
Social Media Management
Social Semantic Media Semantics
Social Media Strategy
Social Network Analysis
Trust and Privacy in Social E-Business
Virtual Collaboration
Virtual Community
Web 2.0 Applications
Web 2.0 Technologies
Web Integration
Web Intelligence

Submission Procedure:

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before January 9, 2011, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by February 15, 2011.

All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.

Contacts:
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document):

Dr. Cain Evans
School of Computing, Telecommunications and Networks
UK: Birmingham City University
Tel.: +44 121 3315000• Fax: +44 121 331 5401
E-mail: cain.evans@bcu.ac.uk

or

Prof. Eldon Y. Li
Department of Management Information Systems
Taipei 11605: National Chengchi University
Tel.: +886-2-8661-8082 * Fax: +886-2-8661-8082
E-mail: eli@calpoly.edu