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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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Social Media Firm Specific Advantages as Enablers of Network Embeddedness of International Entrepreneurial Ventures
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study how international entrepreneurial ventures use social media to internationalise and explain how firms leverage their own social media capabilities and bundle them with the capabilities of foreign partners, which they leverage to create new social-media capabilities to grow internationally.
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Social media communications and festival brand equity: Millennials vs Centennials
TL;DR: In this article, a personal survey has been conducted for a sample of 622 attendees of the main live music festival in Spain, where respondents have been asked about their perceptions of festival social media communications, the core variables of brand equity, overall brand equity and the satisfaction and post-festival behavioral intentions.
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Leveraging collective intelligence: How to design and manage crowd-based business models
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify and discuss three key challenges in designing and managing CBBMs: determining the crowd's value to the firm, creating superior value for the crowd, and capturing value from the crowd effectively.
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How CEOs use Twitter: A comparative analysis of Global and Latin American companies
Paul Capriotti,Laura Ruesja +1 more
TL;DR: The results of the study show that the presence of CEOs in social networks is very low, and the majority of those that are present on them are not adequately using their Twitter accounts, so this area of strategic communication should be improved by communication practitioners.
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Use of Geotagged Social Media in Urban Settings: Empirical Evidence on Its Potential from Twitter
TL;DR: A methodology for the collection and analysis of data from Social Media, for transportation-related uses, first in a generic methodological framework and then particularly for Twitter is introduced.
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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.