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Lebanon Valley College - Communication

Professor and Consultant
Joel A.
Kline, Ph.D.
Palmyra, Pennsylvania
Professor at Lebanon Valley College (@LVC). Tech junkie curious about e-commerce, strategy, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

Key themes in my work life are storytelling, engagement, collaboration, learning, and design thinking. Specific research interests in UX, brainstorming, and workforce development.

Spare time hustler of antiques, vintage finds, and vinyl records.

Experience

    Education

    • Penn State University

      Certificate

      Project Management
      Professional Certificate Program in Project Management

    • Lebanon Valley College

      BS & BA

      Biology & Philosophy

    • Lebanon Valley College

      Professor


      Co-founding Professor of the Department of Design, Media, and Technology. I teach Undergraduate and MBA courses on Technology Management, Entrepreneurship, and Internet Marketing. I also teach Project Management using PMBOK from PMI.

    • Temple University

      Masters

      Journalism, PR, and Advertising
      My research focused on the effects of technology on communication.

    • Texas Tech University

      PhD

      Technical Communication & Rhetoric
      Dissertation on Communities of Practice (CoP) as a model for collaboration.

    Publications

    • The Social Body of Knowledge: Nurturing Organizational Social Capital via Social Media Based Communities of Practice

      Technical Communication

      To develop a theoretical model that layers community structure on top of employee social media engagement to improve social capital. This improved social capital leads to tacit knowledge sharing.

    • Negotiating Professional Consciousness in Technical Communication: A Community of Practice Approach

      Technical Communication

      This article describes a model for academic/practitioner collaboration in the field of Technical Communication using Communities of Practice theory.