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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: The next frontier for professional development in radiography
Celeste Lawson,Cynthia Cowling +1 more
TL;DR: Whether the inherent challenges of social media use reduce its feasibility as a platform for professional development in radiography is investigated to establish whether it provides a new means of inclusive professional development.
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Managing customer information and knowledge with social media in business-to-business companies
TL;DR: The role and possibilities of social media in the sharing and creation of customer information and knowledge especially from the perspective of business-to-business companies' innovation is studied with an extensive literature review.
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Using Twitter for foresight: An opportunity?
TL;DR: Twitter is an opportunity to extend the considered data sources and to increase the number of involved stakeholder views, while the reliability of Twitter data still requires critical reflection.
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Differences between TripAdvisor and Booking.com in branding co-creation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on hotel brand image co-creation in TripAdvisor and Booking.com using a sample of 52 hotel units, all located in an island destination, and assess the brand personality traits communicated as well as sentiment analysis in order to understand the nature of the content better.
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Shaping Digital Innovation Via Digital-related Capabilities
TL;DR: In this article, the conditions under which digital innovation opportunities emerge in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) were explored and the question of what capabilities are required to shape the exploitation of digital innovation, namely market offerings and the digital business process was answered.
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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.