Social media, defi ned as Internet-based applications that support the collaborative creation and exchange of user-generated content,1 is now part of our culture. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Doximity, blogs, and wikis are pervasive means of communication and information dissemination in our society. For physicians, this transparent way of communicating affects patient expectations, engagement,...

We empirically explore the associations between social media usage at home and shopping preferences using survey data. We focus on popular retail firms including brick-and-mortar firms such as Walmart, Target, Nordstrom, and Best Buy, and online retailers, such as Amazon, Walmart, Target, and Best Buy. Social media usage of popular platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Skype are an...

The recent success of social networking sites like mySpace, Friendster, Orkut, LinkedIn, Ecademy and openBC indicates that extending one's social network through a virtual medium is a popular proposition. The social networking paradigm can be integrated with the knowledge management field, in which sharing knowledge with others is a central issue. This paper investigates how the social networki...

This paper presents the results from a 2.3 million person field experiment that varies whether a job seeker is shown the number of applicants for a job posting on a large job posting website, LinkedIn. This intervention increases the likelihood a person will start/finish an application by 0.6%-1.9%, representing an economically significant potential increase of over a thousand applications per ...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2016.02.017 0968-090X/ 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. q This article belongs to the Virtual Special Issue on: ITSC-Traffic Management. qq Research supported by National Science Foundation SBIR Award Phase Award 1. ⇑ Corresponding author at: Dept of EECS, UC, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (A. Muralidharan), scoogan@...

With the explosion of social media in the last few years, web pages nowadays include different social network buttons where users can express if they support or recommend content. Those social buttons are very visual and their presentations, along with the counters, mark the importance of the social network and the interest on the content. In this paper, we analyze the presence of four types of...

Users of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, or Twitter, are often overwhelmed by the huge amount of social data (friends’ updates and other activities). We propose using machine learning techniques to learn preferences of users and generate personalized recommendations. We apply four different machine learning techniques on previously rated activities and friends t...

A Human Resources Management (HR) survey shows that 95% of 541 HR professionals use LinkedIn to recruit passive candidates. Thus, users are increasingly professionalizing their profiles. However, data found as many 87% people on fake identities. It aims add a connection with other companies in way looks professional. This study determine the effect profile individual success getting job because...

Zusammenfassung Für die Umsetzung des Social Sellings bieten sich diverse Plattformen und Tools zur Unterstützung an. Die beiden wichtigsten XING LinkedIn werden näher beschrieben. CRM-Integration, Schwächen bei der Erfolgsmessung beim Controlling sowie Herausforderungen Risiken Nutzung diskutiert. Weiterhin zeigen Case Studies Erfahrungen Erfolge in praktischen Anwendung.

There are contradictions between the modern deve-lopment of social networks and lack a system knowledge about influence on physical activity sports mana-gement. is an insufficient level preparedness specialists in field to participate professional networks. Objective:determining impact development culture, rehabilitation sports. Material & Methods: analysis scientific sources questionnaire....