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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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How to inspire customers via social media
TL;DR: This study provides the first evidence of customer inspiration via social media and examines its antecedents and consequences, and offers useful guidelines and suggestions for firms on how to inspire customers using social media.
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Ranking and grouping social media requests for emergency services using serviceability model
TL;DR: A formal model of serviceability called Social-EOC is presented, which describes the elements of a serviceable message posted in social media expressing a request and the existence of redundancy and semantic coherence among the serviceable requests are validated.
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Ranging Patterns of the Pygmy Slow Loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus) in a Mixed Deciduous Forest in Eastern Cambodia
Carly Starr,K. A. I. Nekaris +1 more
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Production and dissemination of corporate information in social media: A review
Lijun Lei,Yutao Li,Yan Luo +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review identifies important themes in recent research on the impact of social media on the corporate information environment and provides suggestions for further explorations of this new but fast-growing area of research.
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The Growing Role of Social Media in International Health Security: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Stanislaw P. Stawicki,Stanislaw P. Stawicki,Michael S. Firstenberg,Michael S. Firstenberg,Thomas J Papadimos,Thomas J Papadimos +5 more
TL;DR: This chapter will outline how SM can be used to fight disease more effectively but also cause confusion and unauthorized transfer of sensitive information, and how public health panics and other forms of harm can potentially be orchestrated with malevolent use of SM involving vulnerable populations.
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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
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.