When analysing the impact of blogs on sales, previous research focused solely on qualitative factors (e.g. trust and credibility). This article, however, answers the question if one can also identify quantitative factors such as the number of followers on social media and similar. For this...

1. Introduction -- 2. Definitions, Social Media Types, and Tools -- 3. Social Media Strategy and Return on Investment -- 4. Online Advertising and Viral Campaigns -- 5. Social Customer Relationship Management -- 6. Search Engine Optimization -- 7. Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining (Business...

This is a multidisciplinary textbook on social commerce by leading authors of e-commerce and e-marketing textbooks, with contributions by several industry experts. It is effectively the first true textbook on this topic and can be used in one of the following ways: Textbook for a standalone...

This undergraduate textbook adopts the perspective of organizations - not individuals - and clarifies the impact of social media on their different departments or disciplines, while also exploring how organizations use social media to create business value. To do so, the book pursues a uniquely...

This book presents and analyzes the concept of online brand communities, an emerging and exciting topic in marketing and eCommerce. First, it lays out the foundations like the evolution of the Web and the so-called Social Web, its utility for users and businesses, and the evolution of the...

"This book investigates the effects of Web technologies and social media on interaction and the political process helping readers to use Web technologies to address local and global problems and improve systems of governance, social equity, economic activity, sustainability, service delivery,...