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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.
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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.

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Netiquette: Ethic, Education, and Behavior on Internet-A Systematic Literature Review.

TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of the existing literature is carried out, focusing on the netiquette (country, date, objectives, methodological design, main variables, sample details, and measurement methods) included in the Web of Science and Scopus databases.
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Transcultural Marketing for Incremental and Radical Innovation

TL;DR: Transcultural marketing for incremental and radical innovation as mentioned in this paper provides in depth discussion on tactics for improving existing products while inventing completely new products and product categories, which will prove to be helpful for scholars, practitioners and university students who wish to better understand the importance of marketing products and services across different cultures and multiple languages.

Social Media Classification Scheme in Online Teaching and Learning Activities: A Consideration for Educators

Dan V. Dao
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed literature from different studies on how social media sites can provide instructors and students with many of the features of proprietary course management systems and provided a classification scheme of common social media site for educators.
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Digital repository of associations between environmental variables: A new resource to facilitate knowledge synthesis

TL;DR: This work proposes open-access and online sharing of associations between variables in environmental science research studies, and begins to connect existing projects that catalog and store associations, thereby moving toward a single virtual repository.
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Tweeting and Eating: The Effect of Links and Likes on Food-Hypersensitive Consumers' Perceptions of Tweets.

TL;DR: Having links accompanying tweets significantly increased ratings of the tweets’ message credibility, as well as persuasiveness of their content, and Socially validated tweets had no effect on these same variables.
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The Strength of Weak Ties

TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship

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

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.
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