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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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Trusting Facebook in Crisis Situations: The Role of General Use and General Trust Toward Facebook.
TL;DR: It was found that participants' general trust toward Facebook as a medium predicted to a significant degree how much they would trust Facebook in a crisis situation.
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Social media utilization in human resource management
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a conference to publish and integrate scientific results and act catalytically to the fast developing culture of web communities, while helping to disseminate and understand the latest developments social media and their impact.
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The communication of corporate social responsibility practices through social media channels
TL;DR: Testarmata, S., Fortuna, F., and Ciaburri, M. (2018) The communication of corporate social responsibility practices through social media channels as discussed by the authors...
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Public relations in sports clubs: New media as a strategic corporate communication instrument
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed usage-styles of new media as a corporate communication instrument under public relation activities organized by sports clubs which are supported by numerous customers/fans, possess various sources of income and create commercial value.
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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
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.