While there are multiple factors to consider, social media can play a critical role in increasing social quotient of the brand by making shopping a shared experience.
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This social role, Legaspi believes, may prove critical to the future of the malls in America as well.
The details of their religious views had nothing to do with the social role they played.
But do these oases for nomads actually play the social role of third places?
It plays an important social role by offering a chance for self-expression in a communal setting.
In a speech on Thursday, Ms Abbott will warn a generation of men are in transit and unclear of their social role.
Overall 1% of people showed themselves smoking and 5% showed themselves drinking, leading Dr Hogan to speculate on the social role that profile pictures can play.
Therefore, the social role of the Bakhshis exceeds that of mere narrator, and defines them as judges, mediators and healers, as well as guardians of the ethnic and regional cultural heritage of their community.
This conference aims to examine the gaps and barriers in integrating the social dimensions into green economy decision-making and to promote the role of social policy and research in addressing current and emerging challenges.
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As I head to Lotusphere 2011 in Orlando, Florida next week, I intend to pay close attention to the Social Business Industry Symposium looking for where social business will play a role in the organization and in various industries.
Research has shown that social isolation can be a risk factor for suicide while social support has a protective role.
Keys had been a journalist with a big-name media company, and not long after I carried out the interview he landed a coveted social media role with Reuters.
But if social networks are starting to play a bigger role in the buying process, why is a social presence missing on most websites?
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If consumers and activists have made progress in pressuring companies to be more conscientious and proactive about social impact at a grassroots level, what role do talented job seekers play in developing corporate social responsibility and what can companies do to attract the brightest, and most aware, employees?
To paraphrase David Bornstein, author of two books on social entrepreneurship, the element that distinguishes the social entrepreneurship lens is the focus on the role of leaders in building organizations and movements.
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The Constituent Assembly itself, elected by proportional representation, gave previously excluded social groups a role in national issues.
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Outside of the BBC, Sean is passionate about the role social enterprises can play in the regeneration of Blackpool and improving the aspirations, opportunities and health of young people in his home town.
"We'd like the government to undertake an assessment of the social and economic role played by post offices in communities right across the UK and for them to provide ongoing support to the non commercial parts of the network, " she told BBC Radio Ulster.
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From the social media restrictions made on the Olympic Athletes to the blame that was put on the fans for jamming GPS systems and networks with tweets and texts, it was brutally evident that the IOC had no understanding of the role social media platforms have played in shaping the way the world, and more specifically the Millennial Generation, communicates today.
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Performance is a factor behind this trend, but more important to this discussion is the role of socially conscious consumers, entrepreneurs and leaders who expect business to play a role in generating social good.
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GPs could play a greater role in social care, for example in detecting domestic violence.
It will also look at the role of social networking, the police response and police resources.
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Indonesia's artists and musicians traditionally hold a key role as social critics, especially in Java.
We feel that the role of social media is to generate awareness, not direct sales.
This notion is related to how social technologies play a role in facilitating communications across the organization as well.
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Still, the lens of social entrepreneurship illuminates the role that he played as a leader, evil as he may be, in building Al Qaeda.
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The Irish parliament is investigating the role of social media in a public debate following the suicide of Irish politician Shane McEntee after a campaign of abuse, some of it on social media.
Investigators with the National Park Service, which administers the park, believe that posts on social media played a role by sparking "numerous individuals' interest in adding to the vandalism, " a National Park Service statement said.
As the sociologist Alvin Gouldner wrote in his influential studies of group interaction, from the fifties, social identity is a role designation basically, a pigeonhole and people in a group play into, or against, the expectations it encompasses.
How Proactiv, which has made its name in the infomercial arena, will respond to this shift in coming years is still up in the air, but Renker agrees the role of social media seems on track to becoming increasingly important.
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