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Web 2.0 technologies promote democracy which poses issues for corporate communications. Corporate communications is orchestrated by companies to promote business strategy and raise brand profile. However, companies’ use of Web 2.0 technologies in the form of social media raises problems for corporate communications departments. Web communities on social media may run campaigns that have adverse...

Web social media includes computer-mediated tools that allow people to create, share or exchange information, ideas, pictures, and videos in virtual communities and networks. Web social media is defined as “a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user generated content” [1]. Furthe...

Background: We examine the signaling effect of borrowers’ social media behavior, especially self-disclosure behavior, on the default probability of money borrowers on a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending site. Method: We use a unique dataset that combines loan data from a large P2P lending site with the borrower’s social media presence data from a popular social media site. Results: Through a natural e...

IMPORTANCE New dissemination methods are needed to engage physicians in evidence-based continuing medical education (CME). OBJECTIVE To examine the effectiveness of social media in engaging physicians in non-industry-sponsored CME. DESIGN We tested the effect of different media platforms (e-mail, Facebook, paid Facebook and Twitter), CME topics, and different "hooks" (e.g., Q&A, clinical pe...

The E-Commerce and Social Media has become the new identity for millions of users across the globe. Ease of services for Shopping, Travel, Internet Banking, Social Media, chat and collaboration Apps etc. have become part of one’s life where these identities have name, media content, confidential notes, business projects and credit cards. Convenience and connections brings the ease of connectivi...

As online social media applications continue to gain its popularity, concerns about the rapid proliferation of Web spam has grown in recent years. These applications allow spammers to submit links anonymously, diverting unsuspected users to spam Web sites. This paper presents a novel co-classification framework to simultaneously detect Web spam and spammers in social media Web sites based on th...

Social media sites are now very popular medium for showing your views and opinions to others with a great amount of various types of information uploaded by the social media users, a social web page can be a collection of pages, audio files, photographs, images, video files and other forms of data in structured or unstructured form. It is also huge, diverse, and dynamic, hence raises the scalab...

BACKGROUND It is well known that information about clinical trials is not easily accessible by the public. In Japan, clinical trial information can be accessed by the general public through online registries; however, many people find these registries difficult to use. To improve current clinical trial registries, we propose that combining them with clinical information phrased in lay terms wou...