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Koenig, Nils, and Christopher Schlaegel. "Effects of design characteristics on corporate blog acceptance." Management Research Review 37, no. 4 (2014): 409–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mrr-11-2012-0253.
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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to identify corporate blog design characteristics that positively influence the view of actual and potential corporate blog users. Moreover, based on the technology acceptance model (TAM), the paper examines the specific mechanism through which corporate blog design characteristics influence the acceptance of corporate blogs and assess the cross-country applicability of the developed framework. Design/methodology/approach – Based on primary data of 992 individuals in three countries (Germany, Russia, and the USA), the paper tests the identified design characteristics and the proposed framework using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), multi-group confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equation modeling. Findings – The results show the applicability of the TAM in the context of corporate blogs. Blog management and usability were found to be key determinants of perceived ease of use. Entertainment value as well as content value and interaction positively affect perceived enjoyment. Content value as well as blog management and usability are the key determinants of perceived usefulness of corporate blogs. Mediation tests revealed a partial mediation of the distal corporate blog design characteristics on attitude and usage intention by the proximal TAM elements. Research limitations/implications – The sample was self-selected from internet users and a limited number of countries. Associations with and understanding of the term “corporate blog” might vary between internet users as well as between the three focus countries. Practical implications – Based on the research, companies are better able to adapt corporate blogs to target group characteristics and thus can better reach communication goals. The research can be used both for the establishment of new corporate blogs as well as for the adaptation of existing corporate blogs. Originality/value – This study contributes to the existing literature by identifying and examining design characteristics that affect individuals' perceptions of corporate blogs. Furthermore, this is the first large-scale cross-country study in this research context that identifies the mechanism through which firms can actively influence the perceived usefulness, ease of use, and enjoyment of corporate blogs, which is important to better understand individuals' acceptance of corporate blogs in different national contexts.
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Guan, Yong, Guohui Wang, Yi Wang, Renhai Chen, and Zili Shao. "BLog." ACM SIGPLAN Notices 48, no. 5 (2013): 111–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2499369.2465560.
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Shang, Yanyan, and Yousra Harb. "Why Would I Share?" International Journal of Knowledge Management 17, no. 3 (2021): 68–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijkm.2021070105.
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Blogs are known for their information and knowledge sharing capabilities. Several theoretical frameworks have been proposed to study the factors that influence an individual's intention to use blogs for knowledge sharing. However, factors like content familiarity and design familiarity are lacking in the literature. Hence, this paper aims to extend past studies and investigate the influence of familiarity with blogs in knowledge sharing. Particularly, the purpose of this paper is twofold. The first objective is to explore the effect of familiarity in terms of content familiarity and design familiarity on individual intention to use a blog as a knowledge sharing tool. The second objective is to determine whether familiarity factors change with gender, blog experience, and cultural differences. The results show that content familiarity and design familiarity positively influence an individual's knowledge sharing behavior in blogs. In addition, content familiarity and design familiarity differ according to gender, blog experience, and cultural differences.
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Hai-Jew, Shalin. "Developing a University-Wide Instructional Design Blog for Information Sharing and Professional Development." International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies 1, no. 1 (2011): 50–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijicst.2011010104.
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As an interactive communications tool, work-related blogs can offer professionals a way to reflect on their practices and connect with other professionals around the world who have similar backgrounds and interests. Reflection helps practitioners make connections between various information streams, their work experiences, and interactions with clients. Reflection can also help connect educational research with applied practices. This essay focuses on the development and evolution of the Instructional Design Open Studio (IDOS) blog, which started in early 2006. The IDOS blog was designed as a professional and academic blog to serve the faculty community as a way to disseminate information about e-learning. The author discusses the steps that went into developing the blog, as well as a range of specific issues, including technological, organizational, policy-based, and design. In conclusion, the author shares insight into the overall experience and provides directions for the future.
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Gardiner, Anna, Miriam Sullivan, and Ann Grand. "Who Are You Writing for? Differences in Response to Blog Design Between Scientists and Nonscientists." Science Communication 40, no. 1 (2018): 109–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1075547017747608.
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Science blogs have been advocated as potential mediators between science and nonscientist readers; however, they are mostly read by other scientists, with little research on how blogs can be made more appealing for nonscientists. We compared four possible treatments of a science blog post (text-only, humor, images and video). Nonscientists recalled more information when images were included compared to humor, while scientists performed worse with text-only than with video. Nonscientists enjoyed the images treatment most, while scientists preferred the video treatment. Adding images to blog posts is recommended as an easy method of increasing recall and enjoyment among readers.
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Yueh, Hsiu-Ping, Weijane Lin, and Tzuyi Lu. "Users' perceptions of blog functions: educational vs personal use." Program 48, no. 1 (2014): 41–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/prog-10-2012-0058.
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Purpose – This paper aims to understand how users' perceptions of the different functions of blogs vary in educational use and personal use, and further to explore whether experience with blogs has an influence on differences in perceptions of blog functions. Design/methodology/approach – To empirically determine whether the blog functions were suitable for educational and personal use, a blog system with numerous functions was constructed for users to evaluate. In total, 48 college students were recruited to participate in the study. The participants navigated this system and then filled in a questionnaire to give their opinions on the functions of both educational blogs and personal blogs. Findings – The findings of this study indicate that of the 26 blog functions, perceptions of 20 of the functions differed significantly between educational and personal use. Moreover, the results showed that only two blog functions, backup and traffic source, were influenced by both blog experience and blog usage. Originality/value – This study distinguishes itself from the previous studies on blogging systems in its specific focus on functionality with detailed evaluation under different purposes of contexts. Practical suggestions are accordingly made for practitioners to choose when and which functions to use under different circumstances to enhance the interaction and information exchange between users in the field practice of educational blogging.
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Ho, Chen-Hsun, Kuang-Hui Chiu, Hsin Chen, and Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou. "Can internet blogs be used as an effective advertising tool? The role of product blog type and brand awareness." Journal of Enterprise Information Management 28, no. 3 (2015): 346–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jeim-03-2014-0021.
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Purpose – As blogs have become an important information communication medium, selecting blog types that are appropriate and effective for the products they are to promote is now an important issue in corporate advertising. However, the impact of different blog types on consumers and their advertising effectiveness are issues seldom addressed in the existing literature. The purpose of this paper is to view product information that consumers post on blogs as advertisements and compares advertising effectiveness between different blog types to help enterprises properly employ blogs in their marketing campaigns. Design/methodology/approach – An experimental design was adopted, and 12 experimental contexts were designed. A valid sample of over 2,000 responses was collected to study between-group differences in advertising effectiveness. Findings – The analytical results showed between-group difference in advertising effectiveness, which indicated that blog advertising effectiveness varies with different combinations of product constructs and blog types. Research limitations/implications – The limitations of this study related to the price factor was not incorporated into the experimental model, and shopping channels were not limited. There might be a gap between the prices of the experimental products and the average expense of online shoppers. Originality/value – The study proposed a framework which can help enterprises to evaluate the type and brand awareness of a product to be promoted and to select the blog type that maximizes advertising effectiveness (perceived risk, ad attitude, brand attitude, and purchase intention) in diffusing product information.
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Ma, Hui, and Fei Ye. "The Design and Development of PKM System Based on Blog." Applied Mechanics and Materials 278-280 (January 2013): 2039–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.278-280.2039.
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In order to manage personal knowledge better, this paper selects out the typical representative software --blog to design and development the system. This paper briefly introduces the advantage of blog which is as the platform of personal knowledge management and development. It narrates the whole design and development process of personal knowledge management platform which is based on Blog. This system is on basic of blog diary delivering and management, ASP for the development tool, Access as the database platform, realize the function of user registration, also the delivering, classification, reviews and web album of blog diary.
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Naboka, Olha H., та Maryna O. Demchenko. "ОСВІТНІЙ БЛОГ ЯК ЗАСІБ ПРОФЕСІЙНОЇ ПІДГОТОВКИ МАЙБУТНІХ ВИХОВАТЕЛІВ ЗАКЛАДІВ ДОШКІЛЬНОЇ ОСВІТИ". Information Technologies and Learning Tools 69, № 1 (2019): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.33407/itlt.v69i1.2425.
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The article is devoted to the actual topic of modern higher education – the professional training of future preschool teachers by means of electronic educational resources, among which the educational blog is gaining popularity. The authors have considered the definition «blog»; the functions the blog performs as well as the definition «educational blog» are given. The most widly used characteristics of educational blogs are defined as: periodicity, authorship, thematic orientation, the presence of multimedia, content features, technical basis, type of device. Besides the authors analyzed preschool teachers’ existing blogs which are posted on the blogspot.com platform. The experience of creating and using foreign educational blogs is considered, in particular, fragments of foreign educational blogs of preschool and primary teachers are presented. The typical mistakes that may occur when creating an educational blog are highlighted (without title, anonymity, great number of pages, too long text, grammatical and syntax mistakes, long page loading, bad design, excess animation, without plan, social networks ignoring). Examples of successfully completed preschool teachers’ blogs are presented. The advantages of using educational blogs in the training of future preschool teachers are considered. There are analyzed the results of questionnaires of students and teachers of preschool establishments (educators, methodologists, heads). The structure and content of the educational blog «Professional training of future educators» are described (pages of the main menu, cross-column pages). It is determined that the use of the educational blog «Professional training of future educators», the creation of students' own blogs, their content and support will help to prepare future preschool teachers for their professional activity (cognitive, communicative, informative, methodical).
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Williamson, Rachel, and Rebecca Jesson. "Log on and blog." English Teaching: Practice & Critique 16, no. 2 (2017): 222–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/etpc-03-2017-0036.
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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the viability of blogging over the summer holidays as an intervention to ameliorate the Summer Learning Effect (SLE) in writing. The SLE is the impact on achievement of taking a break from school over summer, and has been documented to affect differentially those students who come from low socioeconomic status (SES) communities compared with their more affluent peers. However, previous studies within similar communities suggest that the effect is not inevitable, and is amenable to intervention. Design/methodology/approach The present study is set in a group of low SES schools where students already have individual learning blogs. The Summer Learning Journey was designed by the research team in consultation with students and teachers from the schools and trialled in January 2015. The design of the programme drew on previous research that suggested that students would be motivated by interest, rather than achievement, and that literacy activity over summer should be leisure-based. Findings Initial evidence suggests that students who participated made measurable improvements compared with their own progress over the previous summer and also compared with a matched control group of students, and that the observed difference continued over the 2016 school year. Research limitations/implications The study provides initial evidence of quite substantial differences in achievement for those students who were active bloggers. Originality/value The study provides an alternative direction from current summer learning programmes and indicates the potential for designing digital opportunities for learning at times when the school is not in session.
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Chaniago, Sri Yulianti, Siti Kudriyah та Tanti Kurniasari. "DIE ERSTELLUNG EINES BLOGS ÜBER INDONESISCHE SPEZIALITӒTEN". STUDIA Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Jerman 7, № 1 (2019): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.24114/studia.v7i1.9953.
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AUSZUGDas Ziel dieser Untersuchung ist ein Blog über Indonesische Spezialitӓten zu erstellen. In dieser Untersuchung wird die deskriptive qualitative Methode angewendet. Diese Untersuchung wird in der Bibliothek der Fakultӓt für Sprache und Kunst der Staatlichen Universitӓt von Medan durchgeführt. Der Prozess der Erstellung eines Blogs über Indonesische Spezialitӓten besteht aus der Erklärung der Phasen von Theorie Plomp. Darunter sind: (1) die Beobachtungsphase, (2) die Designphase, (3) die Realisierungsphase, und (4) die Test-, Evaluations-und Revisionsphase. Die Indonesische Spezialitӓten will in einem Blog auf Deutsch vorgestellt werden. Der Name des Blogs ist www.sriyuliantimhs.blogspot.co.id. Es gibt ca 10 Posting, die in einem Blog publiziert werden, sind: Nani Arsik, Rendang, Gudeg, Ayam Betutu, Papeda, Opor Ayam, Karedok, Pempek, Soto Betawi und Lempah Kuning. In jeder Posting besteht aus die Texte und Bilder. Der Text enthält die Erklärung die Indonesische Spezialitӓten. Die Erstellung des Blogs wird den Experten Evaluation gemacht. Die Ergebnisse der Evaluation zeigt, dass das Blog gut ist. Der Inhalt und Thema des Blogs sind interessant zum Lesen. Die Darstellung ist deutlich. Die Design des Blogs ist interessant mit der vorhandene Unterteilung des Menüs. Die Farbe und der Hintergrund des Blogs kann den Lesern die Lust zum Lesen wecken. Schlüsselwörter: Erstellung des Blogs, die Indonesische Spezialitӓten
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Wang, Yan Ping. "Research on the Design and Application of Micro Blog Network Marketing into the Global Trade." Applied Mechanics and Materials 687-691 (November 2014): 4902–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.687-691.4902.
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The emergence and rapid development of Micro Blog has provided a new, swift and effective tool for the international trade. Nowadays this new tool is called Micro Blog internet marketing. Compared with blog, the micro log is much more convenient and the issued content is much more brief which makes the users issue messages timely and usually it is a much more effective channel for the readers and the bloggers to communicate with each other. Micro blog has quickly become a popular tool to communicate and every website has begun to open their own micro blog to propaganda their companies. The micro blog internet marketing can reduce the cost of international trade, improve trade efficiency and customer satisfaction and improve the enterprises’ awareness of competition. Therefore to lay much more emphasis on the role that the micro blog internet marketing has played in international trade is a must in the new century. This is also a way to increase the construction of internet information, thus regulating the micro internet marketing and promoting the healthy development of this field.
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Mutum, Dilip S., Ezlika M. Ghazali, Amrul Asraf Mohd-Any, and Bang Nguyen. "Avoidance of sponsored posts on consumer-generated content: a study of personal blogs." Bottom Line 31, no. 1 (2018): 76–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bl-09-2017-0027.
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Purpose This study aims to conceptualise and empirically examine how blog users engage with the sponsored posts on consumer-generated content, specifically blogs. Design/methodology/approach This paper empirically tested the proposed hypotheses using the structural equation modelling using a sample of 399 blog users. Findings The need for cognition, perceived interactivity and perceived credibility of blogs has been found to directly influence consumers’ attitude towards blogs. Innovativeness has been found to have a weak negative link with the attitude towards blogs. Blog users were more favourable towards the sponsored posts if the blogs were more interactive. Attitude towards blogs has been found to mediate the relationship between users’ perceived interactivity and their avoidance of the sponsored posts and also between perceived credibility and avoidance of the sponsored posts on blogs. The most significant finding of this study is that the positive attitude towards a blog results in a higher avoidance of the sponsored posts. Research limitations/implications This study focuses on the sponsored posts on blogs. It does not look at other forms of advertising on blogs such as banner ads, or other forms of consumer-generated content. Practical implications Marketers and bloggers should carefully consider the suitability of the sponsored posts on blogs as they risk alienating the regular users of the blogs. Sponsored posts which are perceived as honest reviews (as opposed to paid advertorials) might be more acceptable to blog users. Social implications This study highlights the importance of credibility of bloggers to blog users. There are some serious ethical issues related to the sponsored posts which have not been discussed here but need to be examined further. Originality/value This study represents one of the first attempts to conceptualise and empirically examine how blog users engage with customer-generated advertising – sponsored posts. It contributes to marketing literature by enhancing the understanding of how consumers perceive consumer-generated content and more specifically, with regard to consumer attitudes towards online consumer-generated advertising. This study enhances the theoretical and empirical knowledge on how consumers react to advertisements on social media, with important suggestions for future research and implications for practitioners.
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Kim, Jiyoung, Rebecca Melton, Jihye Ellie Min, and Bu Yong Kim. "Who says what?: exploring the impacts of content type and blog type on brand credibility, brand similarity and eWOM intention." Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An International Journal 24, no. 4 (2020): 611–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfmm-03-2019-0041.
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PurposeThe purpose of this research is to conduct an exploratory study to discover if presenting consumers with a certain content type (i.e. product-focused content with informational appeal, institution-focused content with emotional appeal, experience-focused content with emotional appeal,) and blog type (i.e. a corporate, sponsored or a personal blog) persuade consumers to form perceptions of credibility and similarity toward the fashion brand, which leads them to further engage with the brand through Electronic Word of Mouth (eWOM).Design/methodology/approachThis study employs a 3(content type: product-focused, institution-focused, experience-focused) x 3(blog type: corporate, sponsored and personal) between-subjects design. Mock fashion blogs and content were developed in order to provide a realistic blogging experience for the participants. With 511 usable data collected, ANOVA was employed to test the relationships.FindingsFindings reveal that content type, specifically product-focused content and experiential content, is an important consideration for illustrating similarities between the brand and consumers compared to institutional content. Product-focused content is found to be effective in encouraging consumer eWOM for the brand as well. Further, the interaction effect of blog type and content type was significant in establishing brand credibility. However, blog type did not influence any of the dependent variable.Originality/valueThis study brings meaningful suggestions to fashion brands on effective blog campaign, which eventually provide insights on how brands can influence female consumers to shape positive evaluation toward the brand.
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Shi, Chun Yang. "Design and Implementation on Sina Micro-Blog Client Based on the Android System." Applied Mechanics and Materials 644-650 (September 2014): 3045–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.644-650.3045.
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This design, based on Android mobile development platform, uses Java language development, making the system have good portability and scalability. Sina micro-blog Android SDK provides third-party twitter application with API invoking service, in which document is easy to use, making the third-party micro-blog client not need to understand the complex validation and API calls process and share text or multimedia information to sina micro-blog.Micro - blog, namely the micro blog, is open Internet social services with the rise of Web 2.0, which allows users to update their status with brief text at any time and place, the length of each message within 140 words, and supports the publication of the images, audio, video and other multimedia. Each user is not only the creator of the micro content, is also the disseminator and distributors of micro content. Compared with the traditional blog, the admittance threshold of micro-blog is lower, and the originality and interactivity of instant messaging are stronger.Android is open source mobile operating system developed by Google and based on Linux platform. It includes operating system, user interface and applications-- all the required software in the mobile phone work. Fast development of the Android operating system mainly profits to a free, open source and good industry operating strategy.
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Santos, J. Freitas. "Promoting Wine on the Internet." International Journal of Online Marketing 1, no. 4 (2011): 48–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijom.2011100104.
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This study examines the content of Portuguese wine blogs and addresses two main questions: (i) which content and design elements of Portuguese wine blogs have more impact on the promotion of wine, and (ii) how can the content and design quality of wine blogs be assessed and improved. To answer these questions, a number of features of wine blogs are examined, and an initial attempt is made to describe the profile, uses and practices of Portuguese wine bloggers. Strong correlations were found between performance measures (posts, comments and traffic). In addition, it was found that one of the main marketing features that bloggers can offer was in rating wines. On the other hand, presentation features were found to account for very little regarding the performance of the blog. Finally, accessibility features, such as cross-references and RSS/Feeds that tend to increase blog traffic, are only used by a minority of Portuguese bloggers.
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Nawawi, Nawawi, Eka Trisianawati, and Abdul Karim. "Biology Blog: Project-Based Learning in Pandemic Periode to Encourage Students’ Creativity." THABIEA : JOURNAL OF NATURAL SCIENCE TEACHING 4, no. 1 (2021): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.21043/thabiea.v4i1.8866.
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<p>The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the biology blog project-based learning on the creativity of students and cognitive ability in the e-learning course, biology department program IKIP PGRI Pontianak. The method in this research was quasi-experimental. The research design used in this study was a nonequivalent control group design, using two groups. The instruments used are; student creativity test, creativity observation guidelines, cognitive test. The Wilcoxon test results showed a difference in the effectiveness of using project-based learning between the pretest-posttest control class and the pretest-posttest experimental class. Then at the project implementation stage, the results obtained that students have trained to be collaborative, independent, and creative in making a biology blog. Meanwhile, based on observations, students have been able to use flexibility skills in various ways to solve problems when creating biology blogs, integrating text, images, and videos into blogs. In addition, students use Elaboration skills to develop ideas and details of group assignments in more detail. Thus, this study can conclude that biology project-based learning effectively improved student creativity in making a biology blog.</p>
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Colton, Deborah A. "Antecedents of consumer attitudes’ toward corporate blogs." Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing 12, no. 1 (2018): 94–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jrim-08-2017-0075.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the antecedents of consumers’ attitude toward corporate blogs. The antecedents include credibility, involvement and attitude toward the corporation. Blog is one marketing communications tool that has seen considerable growth in the past few years. Understanding the antecedents of attitudes toward corporate blogs may benefit practitioners responsible for communications strategies. Design/methodology/approach A pilot study was conducted to address any issues with the survey or stimuli. The main study involved 219 participants that viewed a corporate blog in a lab and then completed a survey. The data were analyzed using moderated regression. Findings The results show blogging involvement, blog credibility and attitude toward the corporation are related to attitude toward the corporate blog. Corporate image consistency did not moderate the relationship between attitude toward the corporation are attitude toward the corporate blog. Research limitations/implications This study used a convenience sample thus reducing the generalizability of the findings. The stimulus was limited to a well-known electronics firm. The findings may differ for other product categories and organizations. Practical implications Marketing communications strategies are becoming more dependent on social media to reach target audiences. When using social media, organizations should focus on building credibility of their blogs. Social media strategies should consider target markets that are more involved with the specific social media. Originality/value This study examines the importance of involvement, credibility and attitude toward the corporation in the context of corporate blogging.
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Qi, Chang Xing. "Design of a Mobile Client Application Based on Android Platform." Applied Mechanics and Materials 596 (July 2014): 923–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.596.923.
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This paper describes the process and mothods of a mobile client application.The application uses JAVA, Google ADT, MyEclipse as the language and tools. and uses the MVC(Model-View-Controller) pattern. The main functions including news display;Blog showing, Blog comment; portal Information; Forum levy; Online login and so on. In addition, introduces the analysis and design of the application.
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Liljander, Veronica, Johanna Gummerus, and Magnus Söderlund. "Young consumers’ responses to suspected covert and overt blog marketing." Internet Research 25, no. 4 (2015): 610–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/intr-02-2014-0041.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the responses of young consumers to suspected covert and overt product-brand recommendations in a blog. Design/methodology/approach – Experimental design was applied to investigate the effect of covert and overt marketing on young consumers’ perceptions of blogger credibility and their behavioural intentions. Findings – Overt marketing had a negative effect on behavioural intentions, such as future interest in the blogger, intention to engage in word-of-mouth, and purchase intention. Covert marketing did not affect the intended behaviour. Neither covert nor overt marketing influenced the blogger’s credibility. Research limitations/implications – The study was delimited to a small sample; one blog, one type of product recommendation, and a well-known brand. Young, well-educated consumers with experience in reading blogs may be able to filter the brand recommendations and focus on the content of the blog. Practical implications – This study has implications for bloggers, companies, and policy makers. Although overt marketing is the most open and the recommended form of blog marketing, the study showed that overt marketing has negative effects. Therefore, bloggers need to carefully consider how they present a sponsorship. Originality/value – The study makes three important contributions. First, it answers the call for research on consumer reactions to covert (deceptive) and overt marketing tactics. Second, it contributes to blog marketing research by studying a case of suspected covert marketing where consumers do not know whether the blog is sponsored or not. Third, the study contributes to knowledge around young consumers, demonstrating that covert and overt tactics do not affect blogger credibility.
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Wang, Bei Zhan, Kang Chen, Wei Long Ye, and Xu Wang. "The Design and Implementation of Micro-Blog User Interest Search Engine Base on Cloud Computing Technology." Applied Mechanics and Materials 543-547 (March 2014): 3294–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.543-547.3294.
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With the rapid development of Internet and the explosive growth of Internet information, massive data processing received more concerns. Micro-blog, which is an important representative pattern of the Internet development in the future, has become the essential tool of communication and marketing to all of us. Processing and using the massive data resulting from micro-blog activities has becomes a hot topic. In this paper, we propose a method to design and implement the User Interest Based Search Engine, a search engine can be used to search for the same interest micro-blog users. We at first crawl massive micro-blog data from micro-blog websites, and store this data in HBase. Then we process the massive data and build indices using MapReduce. Finally, we build a search engine web site based on Solr, and we propose a rank algorithm for searching. By employing this User Interest Based Search Engine, we can accurately search other users with the same interests as ourselves.
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Wu, Peng, Si Shen, Daqing He, and Jia Tina Du. "A belief–desire–intention model for blog users’ negative emotional norm compliance." Electronic Library 35, no. 4 (2017): 798–821. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/el-09-2016-0187.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand blog users’ negative emotional norm compliance decision-making in crises (blog users’-NNDC). Design/methodology/approach A belief–desire–intention (BDI) model to evaluate the blog users’-NNDC (the BDI-NNDC model) was developed. This model was based on three social characteristics: self-interests, expectations and emotions. An experimental study was conducted to evaluate the efficiency of the BDI-NNDC model by using data retrieved from a popular Chinese social network called “Sina Weibo” about three major crises. Findings The BDI-NNDC model strongly predicted the Blog users’-NNDC. The predictions were as follows: a self-interested blog user posted content that was targeting his own interests; a blogger with high expectations wrote and commented emotionally negative blogs on the condition that the numbers of negative posts increased, while he ignored the norm when there was relatively less negative emotional news; and an emotional blog user obeyed the norm based on the emotional intentions of the blogosphere in most of the cases. Research limitations/implications The BDI-NNDC model can explain the diffusion of negative emotions by blog users during crises, and this paper shows a way to bridge the social norm modelling and the research of blog users’ activity and behaviour characteristics in the context of “real life” crises. However, the criterion for differentiating blog users according to social characteristics needs to be further revised, as the generalizability of the results is limited by the number of cases selected in this study. Practical implications The current method could be applied to predict emotional trends of blog users who have different social characteristics and it could support government agencies to build strategic responses to crises. Originality/value This paper supports the creation of normative models and engineering methods to predict blog users’-NNDC and mitigate their effect in real-world crises.
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Zeng Qun. "The Design of Knowledge-Sharing Platform System Based on Blog." International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications 6, no. 19 (2012): 474–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.4156/jdcta.vol6.issue19.58.
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Song, Pei Pei, Yu Ming Qi, and Zhong Min Wang. "Design and Implementation of User Model Based on Light Blog." Applied Mechanics and Materials 556-562 (May 2014): 6003–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.556-562.6003.
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Social intercourse based on interest is becoming more and more popular, design of the existing architecture and the business logic of the light blog by taking analysis is implemented. Through recording and analyzing users’ behavior and data profiles, this system can automatically push the new useful information to the specific users who may have an interest on that by data mining. In this paper, the application of the data mining technique, the implementation of TF-IDF algorithm and the solution of the model similarity are mainly explained.
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Doyle, S. "Technology - Blog. Buzz Words: Healthcare tech; Drones; Rover design - Robotics." Engineering & Technology 15, no. 6 (2020): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/et.2020.0637.
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Ong, Gina May Yuen, and Wing Sum Cheung. "Exploring Students' Motivations in Using Blogs at the Primary School Level." International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design 5, no. 1 (2015): 30–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijopcd.2015010103.
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Blogs have been widely used in education for the numerous benefits the tool offers. Previous research has examined the use of blogs in various educational settings, but very few studies have been carried out at the primary level. This study explored students' motivations to use blogs in a primary school context. A case study approach was adopted and data were collected through online reflections, supported by and triangulated with data from face-to-face interviews. Findings revealed several reasons that motivated students to blog, and students' motivations to blog seemed to suggest that the students were subconsciously meeting one or more psychological needs, namely belonging, competence, freedom, and fun, and the need for competence was the most prevalent amongst students in this study. This study also provides teachers in the school to gain some insights into what motivated their students to use blogs when they design instructional activities in the future.
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Segar, Emma. "Blog fiction and its successors." Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 23, no. 1 (2017): 20–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856516678369.
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The appearance of the blogging platform created a new epistolary form for writers, with an inbuilt means of instant publication. Blog fiction could be serialized in real time, distributed between multiple online spaces and supplemented in commentary sections by other bloggers, real and fictional. Bad Influences (Segar, 2013a) was an experimental blog fiction making narrative use of these distributions in time, space and authorship (Walker Rettberg, 2004) as well as many other formal blog characteristics, including character avatars, interactive quizzes, aggregated feeds and blog design elements. As the story progressed, it became apparent that the processes of writing, reading and interacting, both within and outside of the text, created relations between the writer/creator and readers/participants who were an essential factor in the realization of the narrative. This led to the conclusion that blog fiction has a relational poetics. Coined by van Rooden (2011) after Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics (2002), this term is used here to describe a narrative process that relies on the human relations surrounding the text as much as on the text itself. Similarly relational forms of fiction are developing on the newer social networks, particularly Twitter, and transmediality holds yet more potential.
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Dobele, Angela, Marion Steel, and Tony Cooper. "Sailing the seven C ' s of blog marketing: understanding social media and business impact." Marketing Intelligence & Planning 33, no. 7 (2015): 1087–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mip-02-2015-0039.
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Purpose – Social media has transformed conventional marketing methods. This medium offers a unique blend of asynchronous communication, opportunities to co-create and customer empowerment far removed from traditional firm-to-consumer, push-vs-pull marketing messages. The purpose of this paper is to examine how a company developed long-term effective relationships and sales growth by using their blog to generate and enhance viral word-of-mouth message diffusion. Design/methodology/approach – The exploration of the blog includes analysis of both content and metrics for a real technology firm with an assumed name. Content and the ripples from blog posts were analysed to determine diffusion and use of messages. Findings – Seven critical success factors for utilising blog marketing to maximum effect are presented to firms considering a similar strategy. Suggestions for managerial implications are also presented. Research limitations/implications – There are two limitations, the focus on a single company which restricts generalisability. The advantage of the case study approach to research does afford depth into this topic. Second, the research questions addresses a small part of the whole social media and corporate marketing sphere, however, this focus allows for depth and richness of data. Originality/value – The paper’s focus provides a unique opportunity to explore the effect of a company who manages points of connection, blogs and viral marketing, on customer relationships. Further, the study responds to the need for practical guidance for managers in relation to the management of blog marketing to facilitate customer relationships and enhance the viral impact of blogs.
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Daniel, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Hartnett, and Maureen Meadows. "Don’t throw rocks from the side-lines." Information Technology & People 30, no. 3 (2017): 542–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/itp-02-2015-0036.
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Purpose Social media such as blogs are being widely used in organizations in order to undertake internal communication and share knowledge, rendering them important boundary objects. A root metaphor of the boundary object domain is the notion of relatively static and inert objects spanning similarly static boundaries. A strong sociomaterial perspective allows the immisciblity of object and boundary to be challenged, since a key tenet of this perspective is the ongoing and mutually constituted performance of the material and social. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The aim of the research is to draw upon sociomateriality to explore the operation of social media platforms as intra-organizational boundary objects. Given the novel perspective of this study and its social constructivist ontology, the authors adopt an exploratory, interpretivist research design. This is operationalized as a case study of the use of an organizational blog by a major UK Government department over an extended period. A novel aspect of the study is the use of data released under a Freedom of Information request. Findings The authors present three exemplar instances of how the blog and organizational boundaries were performed in the situated practice of the case study organization. The authors draw on the literature on boundary objects, blogs and sociomateriality in order to provide a theoretical explication of the mutually constituted performance of the blog and organizational boundaries. The authors also invoke the notion of “extended chains of intra-action” to theorize changes in the wider organization. Originality/value Adoption of a sociomaterial lens provides a highly novel perspective of boundary objects and organizational boundaries. The study highlights the indeterminate and dynamic nature of boundary objects and boundaries, with both being in an intra-active state of becoming challenging conventional conceptions. The study demonstrates that specific material-discursive practices arising from the situated practice of the blog at the respective boundaries were performative, reconfiguring the blog and boundaries and being generative of further changes in the organization.
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Cho, Sook-Hyun, and Se-Joon Hong. "Blog user satisfaction: Gender differences in preferences and perception of visual design." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 41, no. 8 (2013): 1319–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2013.41.8.1319.
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The World Wide Web is now used by all generations and classes. In addition to fulfilling the Internet's broad purposes in society, interface designers increasingly recognize the importance of visual aesthetics and end-user preferences in improving user satisfaction. We investigated gender differences in blog user satisfaction. Participants were 268 undergraduate students. The results revealed no statistical difference according to gender in how information quality and navigation quality influenced the satisfaction of male and female participants. However, we found a gender-based difference in response according to visual stimulus: the more positive the attitude toward visual stimuli, the stronger the response to other components. Based on these findings, implications for blog design and satisfaction are discussed.
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Leu, Jenq-Shiou, Yuan-Po Chi, and Wei-Kuan Shih. "Design and implementation of Blog Rendering and Accessing INstantly system (BRAINS)." Journal of Network and Computer Applications 30, no. 1 (2007): 296–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2005.08.001.
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Geerts, Guido L., and Winifred D. Scott. "Using Blog Technology For Collaborative Learning Of Accounting And Corporate Governance Issues: Design And Implementation Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Blog." Review of Business Information Systems (RBIS) 11, no. 3 (2007): 75–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/rbis.v11i3.4419.
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Kuang, Tao, and Shan Hong Zhu. "The Blog Topic Detection Research Based on Bursty Word." Advanced Materials Research 926-930 (May 2014): 3406–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.926-930.3406.
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The emergence of blog hot topic means that the user's interest ,participation behavior and various media report coverage reach to its climax,a detecting method of topics on blog based on blog bursty words is proposed. It includes the use of word similarity measure and text clustering analysis which is combined with design strategy in specific period, the use of the main idea of the sudden vocabulary hot topic detection algorithm has to be used and improved in order to generate the final clustering. The experimental results show that the algorithm can obtain an accurate blog topic detection results.
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Madaan, Rosy, A. K. Sharma, and Ashutosh Dixit. "Design of a Novel Search Engine for Prospective Question Answering." International Journal of Information Retrieval Research 4, no. 2 (2014): 19–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijirr.2014040102.
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Question answering offers a more intuitive approach to information processing. A number of approaches have been used for answering questions. In this paper, we propose a questionansweringsystem that uses blogs as its source of information. The system deals with crawling blog pages, summarizing them, indexing and then ranking the summarized content. The user asks a question and gets answer(s) in response. The answer(s) obtained are better as compared to those provided by the existing QA systems that use the general web pages for the purpose of answering. The experimental results show that the proposed system has shown promising results and the responses given by the system are better than those given by the existing QA systems.
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Marzuki, Muhammad Jahid, and Sitti Nurpahmi. "USING VIDEO BLOG IN TEACHING SPEAKING." English Language Teaching for EFL Learners 1, no. 1 (2019): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.24252/elties.v1i1.7422.
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The objective of the research is to find out whether or not video blog can improve the speaking ability of the students of English Education Department of FTK UINAM in academic year 2017/2018. The researcher applied pre-experimental method, with one group pretest and posttest design which employed speaking test to find out the students’ speaking performance in terms of accuracy. The sample consisted of 20 students used purposive sampling technique taken from the population of the second semester students of Sulawesi Flight. The result of the data analysis indicated that there was significant difference of students’ speaking performance before and after being trained through video blog. It is proved by result of statistical analysis of the level significance 0.05 with degree of freedom (df) = N-1 = 20-1 = 19 which indicated that t-test value of final score I speaking ability (13.309) was greater than t-table (2.093). Therefore, video blog can improve speaking performance of the students.
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Wang, Shih-Ju, Chiu-Ping Hsu, Heng-Chiang Huang, and Chia-Lin Chen. "How readers’ perceived self-congruity and functional congruity affect bloggers’ informational influence." Online Information Review 39, no. 4 (2015): 537–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/oir-02-2015-0063.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to treat bloggers as human brands and applies self-congruity theory to explore how actual and ideal blogger-reader self-congruity, combined with the blog’s functional congruity, influences blogger-reader relationship quality (BRRQ) and the blogger’s informational influence, taking perceived interactivity among blog members as a moderator. Design/methodology/approach – Using a survey of 372 female beauty blog readers, this study employs the structural equation modelling approach to investigate the proposed model. Findings – The empirical findings indicate that readers’ perceived self-congruity with beauty bloggers raises the bloggers’ informational influence, mediated by BRRQ and functional congruity. Actual self-congruity has greater predictive power than ideal self-congruity in explaining bloggers’ informational influence. Moreover, perceived interactivity plays a two-sided role because it strengthens the positive impact of BRRQ on informational influence but weakens the positive impact of functional congruity on informational influence. Practical implications – The findings should help marketers identify influential beauty bloggers through their presented image on their blogs to encourage readers’ acceptance of their opinions about products and services. However, when focusing on beauty blogs featuring high-perceived interactivity among blog members, marketers should carefully balance the facilitating and offsetting effect of perceived interactivity and identify bloggers equipped with superior BRRQ. Originality/value – Using human brand and parasocial interaction perspectives, this study contributes to emerging research on human brands and blog marketing and demonstrates that perceived interactivity is a double-edged sword in stimulating a blogger’s informational influence.
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van Esch, Patrick, Denni Arli, Jenny Castner, Nabanita Talukdar, and Gavin Northey. "Consumer attitudes towards bloggers and paid blog advertisements: what’s new?" Marketing Intelligence & Planning 36, no. 7 (2018): 778–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mip-01-2018-0027.
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Purpose Reports show that 6.77m people published blogs on blogging websites and more than 12m people write blogs using their social network. However, few studies have explored consumer attitudes toward bloggers and their advertising. Therefore, an effort to discover how paid blog advertisements influence consumer attitudes toward bloggers and the products they advertise will help marketers gain an understanding of how to use bloggers as paid sponsors to influence consumer purchase intent. Using online survey approach, a study recruited participants (n=210) through an online survey platform (MTurk). The results indicated that the similarity between the consumer and the ad creator is an important psychological reason why consumers are more likely to perceive advertisements as more authentic, more affective, less deceptive and more credible, and they are thus more likely to trust the blogger. On the other hand, the importance of ad attribute (authenticity) does not significantly influence consumers’ intention to purchase products advertised by a blogger. As consumers are becoming more skeptical of advertisements, blogs need to be entertaining and a pleasure to view. Not only does the content need to be interesting, the design, flow and clarity of the blogs must also be considered important factors. In addition, advertising needs to be believable, credible and honest. In the online world, trust and credibility are still paramount in attracting consumers’ engagement; hence, promoting companies’ products and services through blogs can be an effective strategy to lower consumer skepticism barriers. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Participants answered questions about their attitudes toward bloggers and their advertising when purchasing products in an online retail environment. Furthermore, participants also answered questions about their perceived trust in the bloggers themselves as well as the authenticity and credibility of the brand-related communication received from bloggers. Moreover, they reported on their attitudes toward how deceptive they considered bloggers and their advertising to be. Finally, participants reported how paid blog advertisements influence their purchase intent. Findings Similarity toward the ad creator is an important psychological reason behind consumers’ attitude toward blogs. Consumers who follow a blog often have the same interests and are thus more likely to support bloggers. This idea can be used as a segmentation strategy to reach particular consumers. Consumers who perceive similarity with the ad creator are more likely to recognize the ads as more authentic, affective, credible and trustworthy as well as less deceptive, regarding the blogger. Blogs need to be entertaining and a pleasure to view. Not only does the content need to be interesting but the design, flow and clarity of the blog are also important factors. Blog advertising needs to be believable, credible and honest. In the online world, trust and credibility are still paramount in attracting consumers’ engagement with the website, bloggers or social media. Originality/value Trust in the blogger did not influence consumers’ purchase intent; however, it did influence their attitude toward how similar they are with the blogger. In an online shopping environment, the human touch and personal contact between consumers and retailers has been lost. Consumers often leave the online transaction due to a lack of trust. Therefore, bloggers can be replacements for the missing “salesperson” in online interactions. Companies can use bloggers as the mediating person to reach their intended audiences, bridging the gap between the company and consumers.
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Yang, Ming-Hsien, Sung-Shun Weng, and Pei-I. Hsiao. "Measuring blog service innovation in social media services." Internet Research 24, no. 1 (2014): 110–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/intr-12-2012-0253.
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Purpose – Blog is a web-based social activity that has become mainstream media. The purpose of this paper is to develope a measurement instrument for assessing blog service innovation, which social media services providers and bloggers can use to promote blog functions and to ensure high quality blog services. Design/methodology/approach – The study adopted both qualitative and quantitative research methods and performed four steps of scale development, including item generation and item pooling, pretest and initial purification, scale refinement, and scale validation and critical item analysis. Findings – From a user-oriented service perspective, the major findings of the study were the 18 measurement items for blog service innovation scale (BLOG-S-INNO scale), which was derived from the innovative blog cognition of blog users. One critical factor in the BLOG-S-INNO scale was further identified to effectively predict outcomes of blog service innovation in social media services. Research limitations/implications – Management at social media services providers can apply the BLOG-S-INNO scale as a diagnostic tool to assess organizational innovation capabilities in relation to blog services, and to link their innovation strategies with the innovation experiences of bloggers improving bloggers’ affection. The findings of this study also make it possible to offer recommendations to help bloggers improve service innovation to increase the experience and preference of blog browsers. Originality/value – The study used qualitative research methods to construct a pool of items for measuring blog service innovation. Furthermore, the paper conducted quantitative research methods to develop a new blog service innovation scale and analyzed the key indicators of blog service innovation.
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Ballantine, Paul W., and Cara Au Yeung. "The effects of review valence in organic versus sponsored blog sites on perceived credibility, brand attitude, and behavioural intentions." Marketing Intelligence & Planning 33, no. 4 (2015): 508–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mip-03-2014-0044.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the differences between organic (i.e. naturally occurring) and sponsored (i.e. marketer influenced) consumer-generated blog reviews, by examining how blog source and review valence can impact upon perceived credibility, brand attitude, and behavioural intentions. Design/methodology/approach – This study used an online experiment, where participants were randomly assigned to one of six conditions in a 2 (blog source) × 3 (review valence) between-subjects factorial design. Findings – The findings indicate that balanced reviews are perceived to be the most credible. Negative reviews led to the lowest ratings on brand attitude and purchase intention, while positive reviews led to the highest ratings on these two constructs. However, the effects of review valence were not found to differ based upon whether a blog was organic or sponsored. Originality/value – The findings of this study extend and contribute to the knowledge of the impact of source and valence in electronic word of mouth settings. Moreover, the findings of this study provide practical insight into how consumers react to the sponsorship of blog web sites on the internet.
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Nugroho, Aji Arif, Rizki Wahyu Yunian Putra, Fredi Ganda Putra, and Muhammad Syazali. "Pengembangan Blog Sebagai Media Pembelajaran Matematika." Al-Jabar : Jurnal Pendidikan Matematika 8, no. 2 (2017): 197. http://dx.doi.org/10.24042/ajpm.v8i2.2028.
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Develop and Test the feasibility of media-based mathematics learning blog especially in the trigonometric material which becomes the purpose of research. This development research uses 7 stages from 10 stages of borg and gall method that are potential and problem, collecting preliminary data, product design, validation, revision, trial, product revision and mass production. Blog learning media developed with the help of adobe flash aimed at providing some animation. The assessment instrument used is a feasibility questionnaire by media experts, materials experts, and student feedback. The result of the research is 1) Based on validation of material expert evaluation, the average score of 4.65 is in the category of "Very Good". Assessment of media experts gives an average rating of 4.35 so that the assessment in the category of assessment of "Very Good". The assessment of linguists gives an average rating of 4.5 which is included in the "Excellent" rating. In addition, in a small-scale test of the students obtained a score of 4.23 on the criteria of "Very Good", and while tested large-scale average test score of students responses is 4.19 obtained "Good" criteria. Thus it is concluded that the learning media that have been developed are in a good category and can be used in learning especially Trigonometry material.
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Cheng, Hsiu-Hua. "The antecedents of creative article diffusion on blogs." Online Information Review 41, no. 1 (2017): 70–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/oir-07-2015-0221.
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Purpose Bloggers often create digital content. Diffusion of the creative articles can make many bloggers or readers visit blog platforms. Restated, diffusion of the creative articles can assist blog service providers (BSPs) to retain bloggers and attract new bloggers. Thus, the research is conducted on creative article diffusion on blogs based on innovation diffusion theory and social network theory. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach In this study, an information system was used to collect 250 creative articles and social network data of these creative articles. Validity of the specific study hypotheses is tested by using multi-regression analysis. Findings Analytical results indicate both observability and network density positively affect creative article diffusion, and ties-strength negatively affects creative article diffusion. Research limitations/implications Since the interpersonal interactive mechanism of blogs differs from that of social network websites, bloggers establish different social networks which may influence innovation diffusion. However, different websites may have different interpersonal interactive mechanisms. Therefore, the results of this study should not be over-generalized. Practical implications For diffusing information, BSPs may focus on blog articles with trackback rate below 10 percent among the friends-bloggers network and advertise these articles to make their trackback rate increase to 10-20 percent to reach the self-sustaining status. This strategy ensures the largest payoff from creative article diffusion. Originality/value This study contributes to the knowledge of social network and innovation diffusion on blog website and develops a model explaining how antecedents influence creative article diffusion.
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Widowati, A., S. Atun, IGP Suryadarma, et al. "The Development of Blog with Nos Within Inquiry Laboratory an Approach for Developing Scientific Literacy of the Student in Junior High School." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 3.2 (2018): 756. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.2.18744.
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The era of industry 4.0 requires Indonesia's quality human resources superior, but there are a big problem that many students have low of scientific literacy. Efforts to instill scientific literacy can help students develop an informed conception of the nature of science (NOS) by using a progressive and authentic learning inquiry environment. This research investigate about how is the blog with NOS within inquiry laboratory model that is eligible to develop scientific literacy in science learning of junior high school and the effectiveness of blog with NOS within inquiry laboratory model for developing scientific inquiry. This research is done by 4D Model in Research and Development. The Subject is expert in media and science content, and 68 students of SMP N 9 Yogyakarta. The design of playing field testing is quasi experiment with nonequivalent pretest-postest control group design. The research instruments are the questionnaire of product validation and the scientific literacy test. The data analyze with descriptive qualitative for the validation result and t-test for the scientific literacy test results. The results show that the blogs that produced in this research is eligible as learning media in NOS within inquiry laboratory model. There is a significant difference scientific literacy between before and after learning with and without using blog in NOS within inquiry laboratory model
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Hsu, C. C., and M. C. Chuang. "The Relationship Between Design Factors and Affective Response in Personalized Blog Interfaces." Interacting with Computers 26, no. 5 (2013): 450–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/iwc/iwt045.
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Alfrado, Willyam Santos, M. Rahmad, Muhammad Syafi’i, and Nurliana Nurliana. "PHYSICS LEARNING BLOG DEVELOPMENT BASED ON FLIPPED CLASSROOM APPROACH FOR GRADE X MIPA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL." Jurnal Geliga Sains: Jurnal Pendidikan Fisika 6, no. 2 (2019): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.31258/jgs.6.2.75-84.
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This study aims to develope physics learning blog based on flipped classroom approach for grade X MIPASenior High School. The developed product was learning blog which can be utilized as learning media forteacher and student at flipped classroom learning. Research method used was R&D with the ADDIE designapproach. Research phase includes analysis, design, development, and evaluation. Data collectioninstrument include a sheet of students interest in learning using of internet that filled by students andlearning blog validity sheet that filled by validator. Data was analyzed using percentage methods anddescriptive techniques. Learning blog which has been developed then validated by 3 physics educationlecturers as experts and 3 physics teachers as users. Learning blog contain of LKPD, learning videos, onlinequizzes, and chat. As for the assessment includes content aspect, linguistic aspects, and display aspect. Whilethe avarage score of learning blog validity was 3,17 from experts with high category, while those of userswas 3,17 with very high category. Therefore physics learning blog based on flipped classroom approach wasvalid and feasible to use.
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Rickett, Laura K. "Do financial blogs serve an infomediary role in capital markets?" American Journal of Business 31, no. 1 (2016): 17–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ajb-08-2015-0024.
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Purpose – Financial blogs provide an online platform whereby retail investors effortlessly gain access to an abundant array of investment guidance. Prior studies find that the market reacts to financial blogs and similar online venues but results are inconsistent and financial blogs, a growing area in new media and distinct from other online venues, have received little attention. The purpose of this paper is to examine the particular conditions in which financial blogs serve an infomediary role in capital markets; when information asymmetry is high, earnings quality is low, and during economic uncertainty. These are conditions in which retail investors may seek easily accessible advice for their investment decisions. Design/methodology/approach – Abnormal returns for firms mentioned in blog posts on the SeekingAlpha.com financial blog are examined using a multivariate regression to determine whether or not the market reaction associated with these posts is related to information asymmetry, earnings quality, and economic uncertainty. Findings – Results indicate that abnormal returns are associated with the SeekingAlpha.com financial blog when information asymmetry is high and during bearish market conditions, and in particular when buy recommendations are posted on the blog for firms with high information asymmetry. This association is strengthened for firms with low institutional ownership, a proxy for unsophisticated or retail investors. Research limitations/implications – Results are based on a sample collected during a specific time period in order to detect whether financial blogs serve an infomediary role during uncertain market conditions. Practical implications – Results of this study can be useful to company executives who may want to monitor investment advice posted about their firm on financial blogs. Financial blogs and other forms of social media such as Twitter and Facebook are becoming the “new normal” in the investor information environment, a trend that is likely to continue. Originality/value – Financial blogs provide an abundance of supplemental information demanded by investors. Financial blogs represent a form of “new media,” now considered a key component of firms’ information environment (Saxton, 2012). In contrast to prior studies which primarily investigate only whether the market reacts to financial blogs or similar online platforms such as stock message boards, this study attempts to understand the specific conditions in which the market reacts to financial blogs. The results provide a rationale as to when and why investors rely on financial blogs and whether financial blogs serve an infomediary role in capital markets.
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de Luccas, Gabriele, Giédre Berretin-Felix, and Ana Fukushiro. "Weblog “How Do I Breathe?”—Design and View Statistics." International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology 23, no. 01 (2018): 041–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1657792.
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Introduction Breathing is one of the vital functions of the body and is essential for the maintenance of life. Preventive measures for respiratory disorders can be used by the population, as well as early self-diagnosis and immediate search for treatment based on knowledge of this subject. Objective this study developed a weblog on the breathing function targeting young people and analyzed the statistical data of views until the present moment. Methods The weblog was developed, and the stages of analysis, design, development and implementation were followed. All texts were evaluated by the Flesch Reading Index to verify the language, and the statistical data were analyzed by the number of views, countries with the highest number of views, search terms used, most viewed pages and number of comments on the blog. Results Issues related to the breathing function and those most cited in the literature were selected. The blog was structured using pages with content and curiosities, with texts with minimum readability of 50%, and was made available on the internet by means of the Wordpress tool. The statistics showed an increase in the number of visits after August 2015; the countries with the highest number of views were Brazil, United States and Portugal; the search terms used were unknown or related to mouth breathing; the most viewed pages related to mouth breathing and the comments addressed questions on mouth breathing, reports and compliments. Conclusion The blog “How do I breathe?,” aimed at young people and containing information about the breathing function, was developed and is available on the internet at the address: https://comoeurespiro.wordpress.com.
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Heilferty, Catherine McGeehin. "“Hopefully This Will All Make Sense at Some Point”: Meaning and Performance in Illness Blogs." Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing 35, no. 4 (2018): 287–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1043454218764880.
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Aims: To analyze the narratives of illness blogs created by parents of children with cancer. Background: The profound effects of the childhood cancer experience on family members and the turn to the Internet by parents for help in the process are gaining research attention. Design: The qualitative study design involved secondary narrative analysis of 14 illness blogs: 9 by the parents of children with neuroblastoma and 5 by the parents of children with leukemia. Daily blog entries were analyzed as individual units of illness experience expression and in relation to one another to identify thematic and linguistic similarities. Methods: The initial analysis of these illness blogs resulted in identification of the quest for balance as a primary theme. Narratives in parents’ childhood cancer illness blogs illustrated themes of performance. During this initial analysis, however, the author repeatedly asked, “Why are they writing this? And why publish this?” A second analysis of the data answered these questions of why parents blog about the experience. Results: Narrative analysis resulted in the discovery of 6 main reasons that parents wrote and published the childhood cancer experience online: to report, explain, express, reflect, archive, and advocate. Conclusion: The analysis suggests that incorporation of parent writing may improve family-–provider communication, enhance the family-health care professional relationship, enhance safety by preventing medical errors, improve reporting of clinical trial data such as adverse events, and improve satisfaction.
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Listiani, Listiani. "Developing blog for English essay writing class." UAD TEFL International Conference 2 (January 18, 2021): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/utic.v2.5739.2019.
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Learning needs a medium to help learners learning. The medium can provide the learners sources of knowledge and practice. Learning English essay writing subject required its learners to understand and to have essay writing skills of English as a foreign language. The essay writing is a subject conducted by English Education Department, Faculty of teacher training and education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto, in Central Java province in Indonesia for preparing its learners to academic writing in the next semester. Blog which can be a learning medium for learning English Essay writing was necessary to be developed for fulfilling the learners’ need. Conducting a research and development was chosen to develop the blog. This study involved 21 students in the fourth semester who took the English essay writing subject. This study took eight months from March to October 2016 in two academic years 2015/2016 and 2016/2017. Questionnaire was used to investigate students’ need on learning media; to know feedback on blog’s content, structure and navigation, and visual design from experts and students; and to find out students’ perception toward the blog developed. Documentation was also used to describe the processes of developing the blog in this research. The results showed that the blog was successfully developed regarding to the learners’ necessity for learning the subject and to the procedure passed in this research. Moreover, the blog was perceived positively (100%) to help the learners to learn the subject of English essay writing.
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Ambarita, Jenri, and Ester Yuniati. "BLOG INTERAKTIF BERBASIS LITERASI DIGITAL SEBAGAI MEDIA KAMPANYE MODERASI BERAGAMA BAGI GENERASI MILENIAL." Tatar Pasundan : Jurnal Diklat Keagamaan 15, no. 2 (2021): 130–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.38075/tp.v15i2.229.
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This research aims to develop an interactive blog based on digital literacy as a campaign medium for religious moderation of millennial generation. This research is a Research and Development (RnD) ADDIE model with the stages of Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation. The validation or due diligence of interactive blog is carried out by media experts, material experts, and practitioners. The interactive blog trial was carried out in two stages: a small group trial consisting of 10 Early Childhood Christian Education students and a large group trial involving 55 Christian Religious Education students. For the blog feasibility assessment, media experts gave an average score of 4.5 which lies in Very Good category and material experts gave 4.00 which is included to the Good category as well. At the small group trial stage, the average value was 4.15 and the large group trial was 4.14, both in Good category. Thus, it can be concluded that interactive blog is quite feasible to be used as a medium for religious moderation campaigns based on digital literacy of millennials.Keywords: interactive blog; digital literacy; religious moderation; millennial generation
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Wang, Yi-Shun, Hsien-Ta Li, Ci-Rong Li, and Chian Wang. "A model for assessing blog-based learning systems success." Online Information Review 38, no. 7 (2014): 969–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/oir-04-2014-0097.
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Purpose – Based on previous information systems/educational technology success models, the purpose of this paper is to establish a comprehensive, multidimensional model for assessing blog-based learning systems success. Design/methodology/approach – Data collected from 240 blog-based learning systems users in the context of higher education were tested against the model using the structural equation modelling approach. Findings – The results indicate the interrelationships between six system success variables: system quality, content quality, context and linkage quality, user satisfaction, system use, and learning performance. In particular, this study confirms that quality attributes positively affect user satisfaction, which in turn positively influences learning performance directly or indirectly through the mediation of system use. Originality/value – This study is a pioneering effort to develop and validate a blog-based learning systems success model.