Organising and Developing the CB Staff

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Celuch
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Sales Specialist

Contemporary convention bureaus play a crucial role in the functioning of destinations within the meetings industry. People managing these units, as well as the employees, are facing a difficult task. The challenge is to skilfully combine all the functions and manage relations not only between the team members, but also with the convention bureau’s stakeholders (members, representatives of the local industry, potential events’ organisers, partners, etc.). The staff of convention bureaus may comprise from one up to more than a dozen people. This depends on the location of the institution (physically and legally) and on its financial possibilities and strategy, which includes its functions, roles and objectives. The number is not directly proportionate to, but it does depend on, the size of the represented destination and its potential in the meetings industry. These factors determine the composition of the team, which may include: the president (director, head, manager, leader), marketing specialist, association and corporate market specialist, PR, social media and sales specialist, a person responsible for preparing offers or bids, a person who monitors and analyses data, in particular the ICCA/UIA database, and a person specialising in finances and accounting.

scholarly journals Striving towards Social Relevance: New Curatorial Interpretations of the Soviet Period in Estonian and Latvian Museums

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-211
Author(s):  
Anu Kannike ◽  
Jana Reidla
Keyword(s):  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Voice

The main museums in Estonia and Latvia have lately staged new exhibitions that proceed from a contemporary museological approach and reflect the results of historical research. The article compares three cases which present alternative but complementary interpretations of the Soviet period. The authors pay special attention to the application of the biographical method prominent in contemporary cultural research, and the museological method of multivocality. They conclude that in the case of multivocality, effectively addressing different visitor groups is a great challenge to curators. There is a risk that the simplified mediation of contradictory memories and views will leave a gap for visitors with less prior knowledge about the subject of the exhibition. In large exhibition teams, the curator has a crucial role to play in negotiating with team members to prevent the concept from dispersing. In the cases studied, it is possible to observe the curators’ views and detect a similar attempt to interpret complex topics through biographies. The analysis concludes that in the context of contemporary museological approaches, the voice of the curator remains essential, especially when mediating exhibits, for they cannot speak for themselves.

scholarly journals ‘Volunteering is like any other business’: Civic participation and social media

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 2186-2207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Kaun ◽  
Julie Uldam
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Technological Affordances ◽  
Shed Light

The increased influx of refugees in 2015 has led to challenges in transition and destination countries such as Germany, Sweden and Denmark. Volunteer-led initiatives providing urgent relief played a crucial role in meeting the needs of arriving refugees. The work of the volunteers in central stations and transition shelters was mainly organised with the help of Facebook, in terms of both inward and outward communications. This article examines the role of social media for civic participation drawing on Swedish volunteer initiatives that emerged in the context of the migration crisis in 2015 as a case study. Theoretically, this article provides an analytical framework, including power relations, technological affordances, practices and discourses, which helps shed light on the interrelation between social media and civic participation.

Comparative Analysis of Social Media Tool Used in Software Projects Deploying Virtual Teams

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debarshi Mukherjee ◽  
Nidhi S. Natrajan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Collaborative Tools ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
User Friendly

The social media tools available at public platform are soon becoming as user friendly and cost effective way of corporate communication. It has become a new way of collaborating among the team members of virtual teams deployed in software development projects. The open culture offered by these platforms helps business in general and software development projects in specific to accelerate growth through innovation, communication and active participation of the employees in their workplace. The study aims at comparing the four social media tools namely Facebook, blog, google plus and enterprise collaborative tools. The tools can be chosen from the long list as per the need of the task in the project.

scholarly journals Patterns of Social Media Usage among Malaysians During the Covid-19 Pandemic

2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
Aisah Meri ◽  
Syahruddin Awang Ahmad ◽  
Sitinurbayu Mohd Yusoff ◽  
Noor Syakirah Zakaria ◽  
Fauzie Sarjono ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Distinct Advantage ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Affective Factors ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Search For Information ◽  
Interpersonal Discussion

This paper explores the use of social media among Malaysians during the Covid-19 pandemic. Questionnaires were distributed to 424 people in Malaysia who were directly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The research findings revealed that the main reasons that drove people to use social media were cognitive aspects, escapism, affective factors, and social integration. The data also shows that Malaysians frequently employed social media to search for information, for diversion purposes, and due to habit. Meanwhile, the highest levels of gratifications were derived from factors of convenience, surveillance, and interpersonal discussion. This study concludes that social media plays a crucial role for Malaysians while confronting the Covid-19 pandemic, alongside other media components. It cannot be denied that technology also influenced uses and gratifications among the audiences. The uniqueness of social media, coupled with the smartphone, gives it a distinct advantage over other media forms. The audiences had at their disposal a multitude of information that could bring numerous usages and forms of gratifications.

scholarly journals A call for governments to pause Twitter censorship: a cross-sectional study using Twitter data as social-spatial sensors of COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 research diffusion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanash M. Patel ◽  
Robin Haunschild ◽  
Lutz Bornmann ◽  
George Garas
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
List Type ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Twitter Data ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Twitter Activity ◽  
Social Sensors

ABSTRACTObjectivesTo determine whether Twitter data can be used as social-spatial sensors to show how research on COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 diffuses through the population to reach the people that are especially affected by the disease.DesignCross-sectional bibliometric analysis conducted between 23rd March and 14th April 2020.SettingThree sources of data were used in the analysis: (1) deaths per number of population for COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 retrieved from Coronavirus Resource Center at John Hopkins University and Worldometer, (2) publications related to COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 retrieved from WHO COVID-19 database of global publications, and (3) tweets of these publications retrieved from Altmetric.com and Twitter.Main Outcome(s) and Measure(s)To map Twitter activity against number of publications and deaths per number of population worldwide and in the USA states. To determine the relationship between number of tweets as dependent variable and deaths per number of population and number of publications as independent variables.ResultsDeaths per one hundred thousand population for countries ranged from 0 to 104, and deaths per one million population for USA states ranged from 2 to 513. Total number of publications used in the analysis was 1761, and total number of tweets used in the analysis was 751,068. Mapping of worldwide data illustrated that high Twitter activity was related to high numbers of COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 deaths, with tweets inversely weighted with number of publications. Poisson regression models of worldwide data showed a positive correlation between the national deaths per number of population and tweets when holding the country’s number of publications constant (coefficient 0.0285, S.E. 0.0003, p<0.001). Conversely, this relationship was negatively correlated in USA states (coefficient –0.0013, S.E. 0.0001, p<0.001).ConclusionsThis study shows that Twitter can play a crucial role in the rapid research response during the COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic, especially to spread research with prompt public scrutiny. Governments are urged to pause censorship of social media platforms during these unprecedented times to support the scientific community’s fight against COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2.SUMMARY BOXWhat is already known on this topicTwitter is progressively being used by researchers to share information and knowledge transfer.Tweets can be used as ‘social sensors’, which is the concept of transforming a physical sensor in the real world through social media analysis.Previous studies have shown that social sensors can provide insight into major social and physical events.What this study addsUsing Twitter data used as social-spatial sensors, we demonstrated that Twitter activity was significantly positively correlated to the numbers of COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 deaths, when holding the country’s number of publications constant.Twitter can play a crucial role in the rapid research response during the COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic.

Social Media for Project Management

2016 ◽  
pp. 778-792
Author(s):  
Amir Manzoor
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
Real Time Information ◽  
Time Information ◽  
Office Location

In the past, project managers could assume that most team members were in a single office location. Project management software was installed on a desktop workstation and status reports were delivered at weekly meetings. Social media use can provide real time information to project stakeholders and meet the demand of the “24 hour workday”. Social media use can reduce traveling expenses and help document best practices & project learning. This chapter explore how project managers can use social media tools and how social media tools fit effectively into each project.

An Advance Approach toward Sentiment Analysis using Swarm Intelligence

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VI) ◽  
pp. 1710-1713
Author(s):  
Miss. Riddhi Mandal
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Swarm Intelligence ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Customer Feedback ◽  
The World

Modernization is the key feature for the development of Society. With the timespan people are making growth with trends in technology. Around the decades, there were many technologies which have been stepped up over the industry and made the transformation in the society and have made tremendous development throughout the world. Similarly, In the 21st decades Social media (like Facebook, Twitter, what’s app, Instagram & many more) have become one of the emphasized network mediums. Millions of people are using social media to get in touch with people staying far away from them. There are millions of data over it which is non-hierarchical and need to store and use it for feedback and other usage. Not only in Social Media, in the business & marketing sector too, customer feedback plays a crucial role. For maintaining and segregating data in a systematic way, sentiment analysis is being used which makes the task easier and helps to understand the data in a better way. In this paper, we are presenting a sentiment analysis approach using Swarm Intelligence, which could be more beneficial in such tasks to solve the complex problem. The concept is correlated with technology Artificial Intelligence.

Cooperation with friends or new encounters: Tie strength and shared leadership behaviors

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-582
Author(s):  
Na Chen ◽  
Pei-Luen Patrick Rau
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Shared Leadership ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Tie Strength ◽  
Team Management ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Positive Correlation

We combined the topics of shared leadership, which is a relatively new form of leadership adopted in virtual team management, and tie strength, which affects members' behaviors in online communities, to investigate how they are correlated in a social media context. We conducted 2 experiments involving 64 participants; the first involved close friends and the second, new encounters. The 2 relationship contexts were compared to explore the effects of interpersonal relationships on shared leadership behaviors. Results indicated that in the high-tie-strength (close friend) context, there was a positive correlation between tie strength and directive leadership, whereas in the low-tie-strength (new encounter) context, there was a positive correlation between tie strength and both positive feedback and social leadership. Thus, in the context of team management on social media websites, we suggest that people adjust their leadership behavior according to the interpersonal relationships exhibited among team members.

scholarly journals Flat-Smacked! Converting to Flat Eartherism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Olshansky ◽  
Robert M. Peaslee ◽  
Asheley R. Landrum
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Conversion Process ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Multiple Exposures ◽  
Gradual Process ◽  
Biblical Literalism ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Young Earth Creationism ◽  
And Behavior

The Flat Earth movement appears to have emerged from a combination of Biblical literalism (e.g., young Earth creationism, geocentricism) and conspiracy theorizing (e.g., belief that NASA faked the moon landings). Interviews with participants of the first International Flat Earth Conference in 2017 revealed that the majority of Flat Earthers have come to endorse Flat Earth ideas only within the last few years after watching videos on YouTube. However, the novelty of the movement means that there is a lack of literature on this group, including what exactly convinced these new Flat Earthers and how that conversion took place. Here, we provide evidence for a gradual process of conversion after multiple exposures to Flat Earth YouTube videos to which viewers were initially skeptical but report failing to adequately debunk. Furthermore, evidence is presented here regarding the crucial role YouTube played in their conversion process, suggesting the platform is potentially a strong avenue for changing beliefs. The narratives provided here also support much of the research on conversion, describing a gradual process of deep personal change, via the relatively new mechanism of social media, where one finds a new center of concern, interest, and behavior, as well as a different view of reality.

Imagining Indonesian Islam as a Center

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Slama
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Contested Space ◽  
Analytical Step ◽  
Islamic Identity ◽  
Online Strategies ◽  
Identity Discourses

This article advocates an approach that is conscious of the offline geographies and geopolitics that inform contemporary social media activities. It does so with regard to the Islamic world, examining how Indonesian Muslims imagine their place within it. These imaginaries are increasingly expressed on social media through a variety of discourses in various forms (blogs, memes, videos, etc.). Moreover, in Indonesia today social media have become the main platforms on which different views on the position of Indonesian Islam in the Islamic world collide. More than any other media, they have become a contested space, as they play a crucial role in defining—and rejecting—the very concept of an Indonesian Islam, which today is mainly propagated as Islam Nusantara or the Islam of the Archipelago. The article analyzes the online strategies and social media activities of the proponents of Islam Nusantara, concentrating on the spatial hierarchies that their discourses entail as well as how offline geographies inform their attempts to translate offline significance into online visibility. In a second analytical step, the article considers the literature on Southeast Asian concepts of power with conceptualizations of a center as one of their main features, and argues that today such concepts re-emerge where one would not initially expect them, namely in the online discussions about Islam Nusantara and the position of Indonesian Islam in the Islamic world. The article thus examines imaginaries of transforming centers and peripheries from the particular angle of Islamic identity discourses that are becoming increasingly significant in Indonesia’s public sphere.

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