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Most companies today realize the imperative to connect with their customers, employees, and partners through social technologies - Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, and elsewhere. But a huge challenge is still in the way: How to build programs and teams for accomplishing all that. While organizations have been fixated on how to use the latest social tool, they've lost sight of how to create a business strategy capable of adjusting to the next wave of technology around the corner.

What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert Danah Boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultimately, Boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and protectionism hinder teenagers' ability to become informed, thoughtful, and engaged citizens through their online interactions.

Es ist ein weitreichendes Urteil in einem tragischen Fall: Eine 14-Jährige stirbt, die Eltern quält die Frage nach dem Warum. Im Facebook-Profil ihrer Tochter hoffen sie auf eine Antwort. Doch lesen, was das Mädchen dort geschrieben hat, dürfen sie nicht. Ein Gericht verweigert ihnen den Zugang, um die Privatsphäre derer zu schützen, mit denen die 14-Jährige Kontakt hatte. Mit dem Urteil verbunden sind grundsätzliche Fragen: Wenn ein Mensch stirbt - wer kümmert sich um seinen digitalen Nachlass? Müssen Erben Chatverläufe oder E-Mails anders behandeln als Briefe?

In the very near future, smart “technologies and big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such “solutionism” affect our society, once deeply political, moral, and irresolvable dilemmas are recast as uncontroversial and easily manageable matters of technological efficiency?

Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest are changing the way consumers make purchasing decisions...and tapping into these online communities has become a necessary part of any integrated sales strategy. Citing enlightening research and real-world examples, this smart, practical guide presents listeners with a detailed methodology for growing sales and expanding their customer base using social media.

A New York Times Bestseller Instagram. Whisper. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales’s...

Il Personal Branding è l'insieme di strategie necessarie a definire il proprio brand personale e a comunicarlo con efficacia. In ogni ambito, che sia il lavoro o i rapporti personali, comunicare bene il nostro brand, cioè la nostra essenza, la nostra unicità individuale e le caratteristiche chiave della nostra identità spinge chi ci incontra a decidere se conoscerci meglio, incontrarci e infine entrare in relazione con noi. Il Personal Branding quindi rappresenta uno strumento che punta a costruire una reputazione positiva riguardo alle nostre capacità e a diffonderla presso le persone che abbiamo individuato come target. In questo audiolibro cercheremo principalmente di dare consigli in merito all'utilizzo del Personal Branding, ovvero su quali contenuti privilegiare, come e quando condividerli e in che maniera mantenere intatta, nell'uso di piattaforme differenti, la coerenza del nostro brand.

Il commercio on-line è un'attività molto diffusa ed è in continua crescita. Tuttavia, non bastano un sito, un carrello e dei prodotti per essere un buon venditore (seller). La cura del processo di vendita infatti non può e non deve limitarsi esclusivamente a fornire un servizio e dei prodotti di qualità, ma deve concentrarsi su tutti quei fattori coinvolti nell'acquisto e nella vendita che hanno ripercussioni sulla psicologia del cliente. In questo audiolibro ci concentreremo sulla costruzione di un sito piacevole per il visitatore e sulle regole imprescindibili di cura del cliente, o customer care, che tenga conto di tutto il processo di navigazione, ricerca, selezione e acquisto del prodotto, fino ai processi post vendita come la consegna della merce, la gestione di eventuali problemi e critiche da parte del cliente.

Everyone's got a blog: your kid, your neighbor, Presidential candidates, and superstar actors. If you've wanted to find out what all the hoopla is about, and jump feet first into the world of blogging, look no further: everything you need is right here.

"A must-read for business leaders and anyone who wants to understand all the implications of a social world." -- Bob Iger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company From tech visionaries Oliver Luckett and Michael J. Casey, a groundbreaking, must-read theory of social media...

Traditional marketing tactics aren't bringing in customers like they used to, and even today's most successful businesses are suffering shrinking returns on their advertising and marketing investment. The Digital Handshake explains this phenomenon and reveals seven effective, proven strategies for using new media and online tools to find new customers and keep them.

What if you could get in front of millions of prospects with the avid endorsement of famous influencers -- without spending a dime? It's happening right in front of you every day. Guest experts on TV, radio, podcasts, blogs, and live streaming are getting local and national exposure for their...

For more than a decade, author Jeremy Goldman has helped companies inject "social" into their processes. In Going Social, he explains the ins-and-outs of platforms such as Facebook,Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Foursquare, Instagram, Pinterest, and others. The digital landscape offers unprecedented opportunities to breathe new life into brands, spread the word about products, and magnify loyalty.

Corporate executives struggle to harness the power of social technologies. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube are where customers discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals but how do you integrate these activities into your broader marketing efforts? It's an...

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional online network, with over 120 million users in over two hundred countries. The Power in a Link shows you how to employ this remarkable yet misunderstood resource to execute networking strategies and processes for your business, secure deals, and use (not abuse) your existing relationships. Author David Goweln delivers the understanding necessary to map networks, stimulate word of mouth, and leverage unparalleled business intelligence to close deals.

From comedian and writer (Parks and Recreation, Eastbound & Down) Harris Wittels comes a hysterical breakdown of boasts, brags, and self-adulation disguised as humble comments and complaints-based on his popular @humblebrag Twitter feed. Something immediately annoyed Harris Wittels about Twitter...

The role of social media in the events of the Arab Spring and its aftermath in the Muslim world has stimulated much debate, yet little in the way of useful insight. Now Haroon Ullah, a scholar and diplomat with deep knowledge of politics and societies in the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, draws the first clear picture of the unprecedented impact of Twitter, Facebook, and other means of online communication on the recent revolutions that blazed across Muslim nations.

You've heard the stories about the dark side of the internet -- hackers, #gamergate, anonymous mobs attacking an unlucky victim, and revenge porn -- but they remain just that: stories. Surely these things would never happen to you. Zoe Quinn used to feel the same way. She is a video game...

Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battleground is the Internet. On one side the alt-right ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to geeky subcultures like 4chan, to more mainstream manifestations such as the Trump-supporting gay libertarian Milo Yiannopolous. On the other side, struggle sessions and virtue signaling lurk behind a therapeutic language of trigger warnings and safe spaces. The feminist side of the online culture wars has its equally geeky subcultures.

Whether it's Kim Kardashian uploading picture after picture to Instagram or your roommate posting a mid-vacation shot to Facebook, selfies receive mixed reactions. But are selfies more than, as many critics lament, a symptom of a self-absorbed generation? Digital native Alicia Eler's The Selfie Generation is the first book to delve fully into this ubiquitous and much-maligned part of social media, including why people take them in the first place and the ways they can change how we see ourselves.