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Social Media Tools for Quality Business Information

Social Media Tools for Quality Business Information

Sérgio Maravilhas
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 30
ISBN13: 9781522556374|ISBN10: 1522556370|EISBN13: 9781522556381
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5637-4.ch044
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Maravilhas, Sérgio. "Social Media Tools for Quality Business Information." Social Media Marketing: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 883-912. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5637-4.ch044

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Maravilhas, S. (2018). Social Media Tools for Quality Business Information. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Social Media Marketing: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice (pp. 883-912). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5637-4.ch044

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Maravilhas, Sérgio. "Social Media Tools for Quality Business Information." In Social Media Marketing: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 883-912. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5637-4.ch044

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Abstract

Information, as a tool to reduce uncertainty and to develop knowledge in organizations, is an important aid in the decision-making process and must be of quality to improve its value. We are living in an information society where organizational and personal life are mediated by information and knowledge, with the help of technologies that gather, disseminate, and deliver that raw material to support our decisions. There are several characteristics that describe the quality of information that will allow the analysis of the value of the information used. In the globalized world we are living in, quality information warrants best results when competing with other organizations. Its value is related to the results that it will allow to be obtained and the dependability on its context. Marketing trends and competitive information is needed for clear decision making about what products to develop, for what customers, at what cost, through which distribution channels, reducing the uncertainty that a new product/service development always brings with it. Social Media tools allow the knowledge of competitor's moves and the analysis of trends from the communications exchanged in the networks of individual consumers, making it easy for companies to develop solutions according to their clients and prospects desires. Learning how to extract quality information, unbiased, valuable for business, from these social tools is the aim of this work, sharing with the interested parties some ways of using it for their profit and competitive sustainability.

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