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Get Social Media Right: Five Things you Just Can’t Miss

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Social media allows you to sell (without actually pushing). At least 72% of people surveyed by HootSuite state that they are likely to buy from a company they first interacted on Twitter, for instance. The mean half-life of a link via ‘direct’ sources such as email or instant messaging clients is 3.4

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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

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Dataset and Sampling Methods. Crane (1972) first described the loosely-affiliated but highly interactive networks of scientists as "invisible colleges." Dataset and Sampling Methods. The breadth of this definition of a collaboratory complicated the choice of a sampling technique. School of Information.