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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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Understanding Twitter as an e-WOM
TL;DR: This paper aims to research as to how Twitter is influential as an electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM) communication tool and thereby affecting movie market and validate the two basic blocks of the honeycomb model.
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User-centered investigation of social commerce design
Zhao Huang,Morad Benyoucef +1 more
TL;DR: This study explores users' perception and preferences of social features implemented on current social commerce websites, focusing on two major categories of social commerce platforms.
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Investigating community members’ purchase intention on Facebook fan page: From a dualistic perspective of trust relationships
TL;DR: The results show that the seven hypothetical paths proposed in this study are supported by the theoretical model, which exhibited desirable goodness-of-fit.
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Social Media and Crisis Communications: A Survey of Local Governments in Florida
TL;DR: In this paper, an exploratory study of social media use by local municipalities in the State of Florida and examines the organizational and demographic factors related to social media adoption for emergency and crisis communications.
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Branding destination co-creatively: A case study of tourists' involvement in the naming of a local attraction
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors showcase the branding process of a local attraction in Florida, USA, from the theoretical perspective of value co-creation and propose a feasible model of co-creative destination branding which actively involves the perspectives of destination consumers.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
danah boyd,Nicole B. Ellison +1 more
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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.