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Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media
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In this article, the authors present a framework that defines social media by using seven functional building blocks: identity, conversations, sharing, presence, relationships, reputation, and groups, and explain the implications that each block can have for how firms should engage with social media.About:
This article is published in Business Horizons.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 3073 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social media & User-generated content.read more
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Social media use in local government: Linkage of technology, task, and organizational context
TL;DR: This study demonstrates that social media tools are not a monolithic group and calls for greater research attention to the complex interactions among social media technology, task and organizational context.
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Unpacking the social media phenomenon: towards a research agenda
TL;DR: This paper presented a model that unpacks social media by using a honeycomb of seven functional building blocks, and examined each of the seven building blocks and, through appropriate social and socio-technical theories, raised questions that warrant further in-depth research to advance the conceptualization of social media in public affairs research.
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Brand communities based in social media
TL;DR: It is argued that due to the social and networked nature of social media it is an ideal environment forBrand communities and researchers are advised to consider these dimensions while conducting research on brand communities and social media.
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Social media adoption
TL;DR: Overall, the findings suggest that social media adoption is significantly driven by three types of need category - personal, social, social and tension release - which are motivated by the social media innovation characteristics that increase the likelihood of the adoption.
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Measuring the Degree of Corporate Social Media Use.
Thomas Aichner,Frank Jacob +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a model with which to measure the degree of corporate social media use or, in other words, the extent to which companies are exploiting the potentialities of single or single or...
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