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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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Influence of social media on operational efficiency of national scenic spots in china based on three-stage DEA model
Jia Xu,Jiuchang Wei,Dingtao Zhao +2 more
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors studied the influence of social media adoption behaviors on operational performance of scenic spots in China and found that most of the national scenic spots have low pure technical efficiency and that operational performance including social media popularity and operational performance is significantly determined by various social media adopt behaviors.
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Target: A collaborative model based on social media to support the management of lessons learned in projects
TL;DR: A model of adoption of social media to assist project managers in the treatment of lessons learned (LL) and could minimize the problem of knowledge drain, which is ineffective learning practices, resulting in knowledge hoarding, limited sharing and superficial LL practices.
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Social Media Use and HIV Transmission Risk Behavior Among Ethnically Diverse HIV-Positive Gay Men: Results of an Online Study in Three U.S. States
Sabina Hirshfield,Christian Grov,Christian Grov,Jeffrey T. Parsons,Jeffrey T. Parsons,Ian Anderson,Mary Ann Chiasson +6 more
TL;DR: This study helped to inform online targeted recruitment techniques, access to technology and social media use, and sexual risk among a diverse sample of HIV-positive gay men.
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Benchmarking Analysis of Social Media Strategies in the Higher Education Sector
Luciana Oliveira,Álvaro Figueira +1 more
TL;DR: The results show that social media strategies have been focusing essentially on mediatization and building/maintaining the organizational image/reputation as well as on advertising educational services, but completely neglecting the dialogical dimension intrinsically linked to social media environments.
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Understanding user participation from the perspective of psychological ownership: The moderating role of social distance
TL;DR: This study found a negative association between intimate knowledge, that is, the degree of acquaintance as well as the number of experiences with social media, and users' psychological ownership, unlike previous literature on psychological ownership.
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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.