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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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Hybrid social media: employees’ use of a boundary‐spanning technology
TL;DR: In this paper, the associations of relationship initiation between colleagues at different levels of organisations with employees' strategies and their well-being were evaluated using boundary management as a theoretical lens, and relationships with social media usage, age and propensity to self-monitor and group employees using cluster analysis.
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Professional and Business Applications of Social Media Platforms
TL;DR: The use of social media has created the highly effective communication platforms where any user, virtually anywhere in the world, can freely create the content and disseminate this information in real time to a global audience.
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Managing relationships on social media in business-to-business organisations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw upon twelve case studies of SM management concerning tactics for acquiring new and potential relationships, building a reputation online, and engaging with business partners, and show four distinct engagement strategies that organisations tend to employ when implementing SM marketing strategies.
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Understanding Social Media Competence in Higher Education: Development and Validation of an Instrument.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide the rationale for developing a methodology to assess social media competence in personal, professional, and educational settings, and propose a method to assess the competence of social media skills.
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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
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