The purpose of this diploma thesis is to analyze the different possibilities of using social networks in marketing, and to compare the situation in the Czech Republic with the rest of the world. In the theoretical section, the term social network is clearly defined and the historical development of social networks and their popularity in the world and in the Czech Republic are discussed. Later, the thesis focuses on individual components of marketing strategy and marketing mix and their implementation on social networks. The key part of the thesis centers on the discussion of different marketing tools, which are used on the most popular social networks today and provides practical examples of their use. The final chapter is a detailed analysis of the marketing strategy and communication campaigns within the most successful companies on social networks in order to identify the reasons for their success. These conclusions are then compared with marketing activities on social networks in the Czech Republic. Finally, the thesis compares the way in which international firms that operate in the Czech Republic are using social networks for marketing abroad and in our country.

The main aim of this thesis is to verify the suitability of the use of Facebook as the main tool of communication mix within a specific marketing campaign. Individual Facebook applications will be analyzed and provide the basis for the practical part of the work. On this basis, the project consists of using social networking site Facebook for a particular company and will subsequently be analyzed in two campaigns that take place on the social network. The analysis will be carried out market research among potential customers of the company. The analysis of the results of research respondents reveals the structure of social networks the target group. The operational objective will design and content of subsequent Facebook campaign for the company.

The purpose of this diploma thesis is to analyze marketing through social networks. The first chapter is focused on Internet, marketing and communication mix. In the second chapter there are discussed social networks and their history. Moreover, this chapter also characterizes generations X, Y and Z. The key part of the thesis aimed to analyze each of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+. Main attention is given to provide a detail view of social media tools and possibilities that companies can use for marketing.

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This master thesis aims to map the behavioral patterns of Facebook usage and the dependence of these patterns on the users' characteristics. This thesis had the goal to generate hypothesis about peoples' behavior on Facebook - what information, where and why people look for and what information, with whom and why they share. In other words, to describe "the life on Facebook" and to contribute to expanding the knowledge about Facebook's social role, its deeper theoretical reflection and to anchor Facebook more solidly into the system of media theories. In the first theoretical part I have characterized and defined Facebook, sketched its history and development, briefly summarized the studies concerned with Facebook and as well described the contemporary media studies theoretical approach to Facebook. The research itself was carried out through the series of qualitative interviews with Facebook users. Based on this data analysis I have formulated various hypotheses about peoples' behavior on Facebook, about the regularities in the way people share and search for information on Facebook. These hypotheses should serve as a basis and foundations of the subsequent quantitative research.

This diploma thesis deals with the topic of social networks in a role of source for print and online media. Quantitative content analysis was conducted to prove whether Czech daily newspaper and their online non-subscription news platforms use social networks as a source of information for national news. In a whole ten media outlets were examined, five dailies with national coverage and five related online news platforms. Several highly exposed events in date range of August 2010 - June 2012 were identified and their media coverage was analysed in selected media during the research.

Thesis aims to analyze internet marketing and its possible use in social networks, focusing on Facebook. The theoretical part clarifies concepts of internet and marketing, internet marketing specifications, its possibilities and forms. It also introduces Web 2.0 and social networking issues. The practical part demonstrates the possible use of internet marketing on Facebook in a specific company including an evaluation.

The purpose of this master's theses is to analyze possibilities utilization of social network in business. The theses is focused on comparison of the most important contemporary social networks in the world and also on looking for thein commercial utilization. Before this, there is the analysis of the situation of internet and clearing of the term internet marketing. In theses, there is emphasis on separation of two main ways of advertising in social networks. First way is making the communities about the companies, products or brands and the second one is advertising by promotional systems of the networks. In the theses, there are a lot of results of many studies, that were performed by key agencies. Also there are many practical examples of business usage of social networks. The theses contains the possibilities of connecting the social networks and other marketing tools like advergaming, affiliate marketing and viral marketing. In the end of the theses, there are case studies, that analyse usage of social medias in four Czech companies from different business departments.

This diploma thesis outlines the ways of efficient marketing use and performance measurement of social networks by FMCG companies. The first chapter defines the concewpt of social networks, describes their benefits for company marketing and introduces the major world and Czech social networks. The second chapter is dedicated to the current most important social network, Facebook. The sub-chapters are covering structure and creation of a fan page, main principles of page management, post planning, aplications, ads, social graph and Facebook advertising policies. Main attention is given to the content of a fan page. the third chapter introduces the marketing potential of Youtube.The fourth chapter features the options of social networks performance measurement. The second half of the work introduces the marketing strategy on social networks for the company Nutricia a.s.

The aim of this work is to map fake Czech profiles on social network Facebook and Twitter. "Fake profiles" in this case mean those where authors are acting as a well-known person, company or institution. The authors mostly found these to entertain themselves and readers. They use satire, parody, and often sarcasm as well. After a general introduction to the topic, which includes, among other things, the introduction of social networks, including the regulation they take for the protection of personality, the main part follows. It analyzes 8 different Czech false profiles. The content of the posts, the account statistics, the most successful posts and possibly other related information are presented. An important part of the work are interviews with authors of these profiles as well as with counterparts, real people or companies. This offers a close look at the backstage of the creation and running of the profile and, on the other hand, the possibility to ascertain the reaction of the concerned party. The next section was included in order to bring a wider view of the issue. It is devoted to similar profiles abroad, which gives the possibility of comparison of the local and international environment. The thesis ends with a chapter devoted to the situations when the content of false profiles is used...