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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 and Internet usage of orthopaedic surgeons.
TL;DR: Even though there are beneficial effects in patient-physician relationship, effective standards and regulations should be developed to enable a safe communication and to resolve ethical and legal uncertainties.
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Smart e-commerce systems: current status and research challenges
TL;DR: The holistic architecture of these systems is described and the main enablers underlying the development of SESs in terms of internet of things, social media, mobile internet, big data analytics and cloud computing are analyzed.
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Benefits and barriers for the use of digital channels among small tourism companies
Maria Ek Styvén,Åsa Wallström +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify and explain perceived benefits and barriers for the use of digital channels by tourism companies in Swedish Lapland, through exploratory interviews and an online survey to tourism companies, most of which are small firms.
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The virtual reality value chain
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a VR value chain that illustrates how the use of VR technologies adds value to key stakeholders, and provide an understanding of the current state of the VR ecosystem and serve as a source for strategic managerial decision making and future VR research.
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Professional Use of Social Media by Pharmacists: A Qualitative Study
TL;DR: Pharmacists, as medicines experts, should take a leading role in contributing to health information dissemination in these user-friendly virtual environments, to reach not only other health care professionals but also health consumers.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
danah boyd,Nicole B. Ellison +1 more
TL;DR: This publication contains reprint articles for which IEEE does not hold copyright and which are likely to be copyrighted.
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Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of Social Media
TL;DR: A classification of Social Media is provided which groups applications currently subsumed under the generalized term into more specific categories by characteristic: collaborative projects, blogs, content communities, social networking sites, virtual game worlds, and virtual social worlds.
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The Search-Transfer Problem: The Role of Weak Ties in Sharing Knowledge across Organization Subunits.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors combine the concept of weak ties from social network research and the notion of complex knowledge to explain the role of weak links in sharing knowledge across organization subunits.
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The Network Paradigm in Organizational Research: A Review and Typology
Stephen P. Borgatti,Pacey Foster +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reviewed and analyzed the emerging network paradigm in organizational research and developed a set of dimensions along which network studies vary, including direction of causality, levels of analysis, explanatory goals, and explanatory mechanisms.