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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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Connecting the dots: A longitudinal observation of relief organizations' representational networks on social media
TL;DR: Findings of this study show the usefulness of a multidimensional network approach in revealing the hidden patterns behind organizations' communication behavior on social media and offer more comprehensive explanations for organizations' relationship building and relational outcomes through social media use.
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Group extraction from professional social network using a new semi-supervised hierarchical clustering
TL;DR: This paper deals with the group extraction of LinkedIn users based on their profiles using the innovative semi-supervised clustering method based on quantitative constraints ranking and results show the usefulness of the approach.
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Systematic mapping on social media and its relation to business
Carolina Nicolas Alarcón,Angélica Urrutia Sepúlveda,Leslier Valenzuela-Fernández,Jaime Gil-Lafuente +3 more
TL;DR: "Red Iberoamericana para la Competitividad, Innovación, and Desarrollo" (REDCID) project as mentioned in this paper ) is a project of the Red Iberosamerican Institute of Advanced Computing.
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Brand Communication In Twitter – A Case Study On Adidas
TL;DR: The conclusion is come to that communication in social media is indeed of high importance for adidas and it is shown that adidas enters the communication in Twitter strategically to increase the awareness of their products.
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Refletindo sobre as redes sociais digitais
Sônia Cristina Soares Dias Vermelho,Ana Paula Machado Velho,Amanda Bonkovoski,Alisson Pirola +3 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a primeira etapa da investigacao realizada pelo grupo de pesquisa Ciencia, Tecnologia e Sociabilidade do Mestrado em Promocao da Saude was presented.
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
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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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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.