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Professional interpreter in the 21st century: new technologies and social networks
Stoklasová, Hedvika ; Čeňková, Ivana (advisor) ; Mraček, David (referee)
The topic of this master's thesis is new technologies and social networking sites in the field of interpreting. The theoretical part discusses how, over the course of time, technological advances have altered not only the face of interpreting itself but also the way interpreters work, and presented them with new possibilities. This part also briefly deals with the history and functioning of social networks, namely Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and examines the possibilities social networking sites offer in terms of marketing. The empirical part presents conclusions drawn from the study. The purpose of the study was to determine general tendencies in the use of new technologies and social networks by Czech interpreters. The questionnaire distributed online focused mainly on the following points: ownership of smartphones and tablets, awareness of technical novelties in interpreting, use of social networks for professional and marketing purposes. A total of 150 people took part in the study. The analysis of collected answers revealed that the number of tablet or smartphone owners amongst the participants is quite high, that participants are skeptical towards nontraditional ways of interpreting and that interpreters use social networking sites rather for communicating within the interpreting community...
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Blog as a phenomenom of online journalism
Hesounová, Martina ; Huněk, Filip (advisor) ; Křeček, Jan (referee)
This thesis titled Blog as a phenomenon of online journalism focuses on public perception of blogs, printed media and online versions of printed media. The theoretical part is divided into three chapters, which deal with online journalism, blogs and its history, new media and the last chapter is about possible journalism future. The practical part of my thesis is based on quantitative analysis and qualitative research. The quantitative research applies surveys as a data gathering method with randomly chosen sample of respondents. The qualitative research uses in-depth interviews conducted with students studying New media or Journalism degrees at the Charles University. In the empirical part of my thesis, the study sets out three key hypotheses. After the interpretation of both research methods we found out that women of age 25 or lower prefer to read blogs rather than magazines about beauty. The second hypothesis states that the most trustworthy media type perceived by women is the press. This hypothesis has been proven as well. Furthermore, the results from the survey indicated that a price is not the most important factor for choosing the media type. However, it still belongs among the three most important factors that respondents base their decision on when choosing a media type. Lastly the...
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Digital Marketing Strategies - Combination of Digital Media Channels
Turazová, Barbora ; Klimeš, David (advisor) ; Huněk, Filip (referee)
The diploma thesis "Digital Marketing Strategies - Combination of Digital Media Channels" examines how the three telecom operators dominating the Czech market - T-Mobile Czech Republic, O2 Czech Republic and Vodafone Czech Republic - use the digital media channels within the communication with the customers. More specifically, it identifies and describes which channels do the companies involve into their marketing communication, how do they use them and why they have integrated them into the communication strategy. It also examines how the companies interconnect these digital media channels and how the channels can be combined to form an effective digital media strategy. By using the method of case study the companies ' digital marketing activities were examined. It was found that each company uses for its marketing communication the similar set of digital media channels, but the usage is different across the companies studied. Based on these findings I have identified three specific strategies - Diversified Content Strategy, Interactive Channel Strategy and Standardized Content Strategy. Each of the strategies has its advantages and disadvantages, which have been described and the strategies were compared. The findings also indicate that it is better to study the digital media channels as a whole,...
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LinkedIn as a phenomenon in the labour market
Hubáček, Lukáš ; Huněk, Filip (advisor) ; Hladík, Radim (referee)
The diploma thesis LinkedIn as a phenomenon in the labour market focuses on the social network called LinkedIn and its impacts in the area of recruitment and selection of technical staff on the Czech labour market. The aim of the thesis is to point to the existence of the phenomenon LinkedIn. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first one is dedicated to social networks, their definition, history, importance, classification and users. The second one is centered on LinkedIn as a specific example of a social network focusing on its history and present and overlapping into the recruitment and selection of staff. Also mentioned is the setting and appearance of the account on LinkedIn and how to reach workers on LinkedIn. The methodological part describes the chosen method of research. The analytical part tries to summarize and interpret the acuired data.
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The Internet as a means of communication and promotion companies
Štroffek, Martin ; Kubálek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kubálková, Markéta (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to find the optimal internet communication strategy of the company. The work consists of a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part describes the concepts of marketing, internet marketing, SEO optimization, WWW, advertising on the internet, social networks. The practical part on the example of the company SOLAR STOP Czech a.s. shows the optimization of internet promotion and comparison with the previous version including benefits.
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Analysis of the Activities of Tourist Regions on Social Networks
Srníková, Claudia ; Musil, Martin (advisor) ; Švanda, Pavel (referee)
The purpose of this essay is to carry out a comparative analysis on the tourism regions on social media and websites. And from this anaylisis we can provide results and suggestions for more efficient communication. In this theory part, we focus especially on tourism in regionalisation Czech Republic. This work is primarily focusing on tourism regions such as Morava and then we compare them to other tourism regions around in the pre chosen foreign countries. In the next step, we summarise today's marketing communication trends and its implication/use on social media. The methodic and analytical part focuses on four main socila media sites namely Facebook, Youtube , Twitter and Google+. The analysis was conducted in 16 regions in total, 4 representatives from Poland, Austria, Slovakia and Moravia. They used the number of fans, activities of fans and the types of contribution from two of the four previously social media sites. Thanks to this conducted comparison, it shows that social media is not being much used as expected in Morovian regions as in other specific foreign regions around the world on which we were focusing on.
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Actual trends in contactless payment, contribution of Apple and analysis of market in the Czech Republic including consumer preferences
Novák, Vladimír ; Schlossberger, Otakar (advisor) ; Čarný, Ján (referee)
The main objective of this work is to analyze current trends in contactless payments and consequently implement it on the Czech market. On this base this thesis deals with several wearable devices. Furthermore on this base is also working in the application part, where is one of the secondary objectives of the work to determine consumer preferences on the market of the Czech Republic. One of the secondary objectives is create a brief summary of the history of payment cards and within the sociological aspect to find a certain analogy in introducing innovations in the field of payments towards current trends in contactless methods. Within the secondary objectives there are simultaneously defined key assumptions forms of payment for success on the market. The following section focuses on electronic payments. Specifically, it deals with trends in electronic payment services, where for its implementation aren´t required the physical presence of the card or chip. Furthermore there are analyzed alternative paths in the current payment methods, namely peer-to-peer platforms. On these platforms is based shared economy, which also represents an interesting potential for the possible development of payment field. Chapter with alternative methods for cashless is finished by analyzing digital currencies. The hypothesis of this thesis is whether Apple can have an impact on the area of contactless payments and how it can affect the entire sector. Part of the hypothesis is the claim that Apple manages to change the area of contactless payments, such as happenede in the music industry with iTunes and then in the telecommunications industry with a revolutionary iPhone. Potential benefit of Apple is defined by the method of description. Potential contribution of Apple Pay is characterized by logical deduction base on previous relationships. Conclusion is by quantitative research method, namely through the consumer research, assessed consumer preferences in the Czech Repulic and is also evaluated the hypothesis of potential benefits of Apple contactless payments.
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Communication strategy of Huawei on social media
Slavičínský, Jaroslav ; Machek, Martin (advisor) ; Stříteský, Václav (referee)
The goal of this master's thesis is to analyse current communication of Huawei on social media and to compare it with its competitor Samsung. Subsequently, the communication strategy will be created, which might be used as a guideline for Huawei's social media communication. The thesis is divided into two main parts - theoretical and practical. The importance of Internet marketing and social media marketing are described in the theoretical part as well as characteristics of selected social media. The practical part contains the analysis itself, comparison with Samsung and the recommended communication strategy to improve the current state of Huawei's social media presence.
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Application of online reputation management for accommodation facilities
Martinková, Petra ; Jenčková, Jiřina (advisor) ; Telyčková, Radka (referee)
The aim of the diploma thesis is to analyze the use of social media and use of online reputation management tools by accommodation facilities. Information was obtained from survey among four and five star hotels situated in Prague. Moreover there is an analysis of online reputation management tools which are currently available on the market. After detailed analysis certain conclusions and recommendations are proposed to hotels to help them with effective communication on social media as well as with effective management of online reputation which is nowadays very important for potential guests who search for their accommodation online.
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The possibilities and conditions for the use of tools for analyzing customer behavior on social networks
Horák, Vít ; Molnár, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Měsíček, Libor (referee)
The thesis deals with free tools that can be used to analyze customers of SMB e-commerce enterprises on the social network Facebook in order to increase their competitiveness within the social network. The theoretical part focuses on defining key terms, distinguishes types of social media and describes present social networks situation in world and in the Czech Republic from a users perspective and in the Czech Republic also from an enterprises perspective. Furthermore, the theoretical part also deals with possibilities that social networks can offer to the SMB enterprises. And as well it identifies different types of analytical tools that can be used for purposes of monitoring customers or analysis of customers. In the beginning of the practical part there is introduced the company Dobrutka.EU s.r.o. (the e commerce B2C company). Afterwards is presented the analysis of the survey about how SMB companies that operate the best Czech e-shops monitor and analyze their activities and customers from the social network Facebook. Subsequently there is handled the selection of appropriate tools for SME companies, which are also analyzed in the following chapter. At the end of the practical part there is practical application of knowledge from the thesis to Dobrutka.EU s.r.o. through the design and pilot deployment of appropriate procedures and analytic tools, whose effectiveness is evaluated at the end of chapter. The main benefit is in act of finding and verification of free tools and effective method that allows for detailed analysis of company customers even for micro companies and thus also effectively achieve positive economic results even in emerging facebook presentations.
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