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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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Implementation of Web 2.0 services in academic, medical and research libraries: a scoping review.

TL;DR: Data prohibits a reliable estimate of the relative frequency of implemented Web 2.0 services, so a systematic review is recommended to assess the effectiveness of such services.
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Ambidextrous innovation orientation effected by the digital transformation. A quantitative research on fashion SMEs.

TL;DR: Though this is one of the few research studies that offers a quantitative analysis in this field, it could be further developed, for instance by extending the sample of firms to SMEs operating in other countries or by comparing multinationals with SMEs.
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Analyzing social media data: A mixed-methods framework combining computational and qualitative text analysis

TL;DR: This work presents a four-phased framework for improving this extraction process, which blends the capacities of data science techniques to compress large data sets into smaller spaces, with the capabilities of qualitative analysis to address research questions.
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Examining the Effects of Social Media Use on Job Satisfaction in the Australian Public Service: Testing Self-Determination Theory

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between social media usage for work purposes and employee job satisfaction in the public sector and found that social media is a relatively relatively relatively re...
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Social Media and Alcohol: Summary of Research, Intervention Ideas and Future Study Directions

TL;DR: Social media may have a role in future alcohol intervention efforts including identifying those at risk or providing timely prevention messages, and future intervention efforts may benefit from an affordance approach rather than focusing on a single platform.
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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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