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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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Sharenting, is it a good or a bad thing? Understanding how adolescents think and feel about sharenting on social network sites
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored adolescents' perception of the reasons why parents share information about their adolescent children on social network sites, and adolescents' attitudes toward sharenting, and found that the more adolescents thought that parents shared information of their children due to informative-archiving motives, the less they disapproved of sharent.
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Development of Indicators for Family Well-Being in Malaysia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a set of indicators for measuring and reporting the state of family well-being in Malaysia, and subsequently, to produce an Index of Family Well-being.
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Ten simple rules for effective online outreach.
Holly M. Bik,Alistair D. M. Dove,Miriam C. Goldstein,Rebecca R. Helm,Rick MacPherson,Kim I. Martini,Alexandria M. Warneke,Craig R. McClain +7 more
TL;DR: Ten rules for conducting effective online outreach are described, so that other scientists can also enjoy the advantages of disseminating their knowledge and expertise through social media.
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Insight from the horsemeat scandal: Exploring the consumers’ opinion of tweets toward Tesco
TL;DR: A progressive tweet-mining framework that can serve as a tool for academia and practitioners in crisis management and indicates the significant importance of timely categorising the topics, identifying the sentiment of tweets and understanding the changes of consumer opinions over time in a crisis.
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Towards a framework for innovation in retailing through social media
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how social media drives innovation in retail businesses and find that social media positively relates to radical and incremental innovation, mediated by multiple digital channels and moderated by digital capabilities.
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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
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.