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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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Could Smart Tourists Be Sustainable and Responsible as Well? The Contribution of Social Networking Sites to Improving Their Sustainable and Responsible Behavior
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors explored the perceptions and attitudes of Chinese tourist consumers about the contribution of social networking sites to adopting a sustainable and responsible behavior within the context of a smart tourism framework.
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The Use of Digital Media for Marketing, CSR Communication and Stakeholder Engagement
TL;DR: In this article, an exploratory study was carried out on a sample of 167 Italian businesses and investigated the companies' websites and their social media accounts, showing that they are utilizing Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube, among others, to communicate commercial information and to promote their business.
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Enhancing social media competitiveness of small businesses: insights from small pizzerias
TL;DR: Small pizzerias emphasizing social media use on community relations and social responsibility tend to be more successful in attracting and engaging local customers and can help small businesses to enhance their social media competitiveness against large enterprises.
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The effects of online social networking on retail consumer dynamics in the attractions industry: The case of ‘E-da’ theme park, Taiwan
TL;DR: In this paper, a behavioral purchase model was developed and tested to understand the ways social networks influence the decision making of individuals planning to visit a theme park, in particular, the proposed model delineates how online social networking (OSN) experience factors affect actual use (AU) of social media for purchasing of theme park services through an assessment of perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease of use (PEOU).
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Time orientation and engagement with social networking sites: A cross-cultural study in Austria, China and Uruguay
TL;DR: In this article, the role of time orientation in predicting users' participation patterns in social networking sites was examined, and a series of structural paths leading from time orientation to users' intention to interact and finally to actual engagement with SNS was compared across three countries: Austria, China and Uruguay.
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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.