Social Media Terms Glossary
In spite of the outsanding and increasing popularity of Social Media, there many groups of people who are still wondering what is it for, what is the big deal with it, how it works, and more importantly, what does every single word used in social media means?
So, here I leave you with a very nice glossary posted in INFOTECHUSA”s Blog [@ http://infotechusa.wordpress.com/ ]
Social Media Terms from A to Z
A: Aggregate – Aggregating content is the act of gathering information from across the web and making it available in one place. Example:
B: Blogoshere – Where all the blogs live on the Internet and where all the conversation happening around them.
BizBuzz – Syracuse Social Network. Social media network’s twitter hash tag ( # ). Type #bizbuzz on Twitter to see the results
C: Crowdsourcing – Pulling together the expertise and enthusiasm of those outside your organization who can voluntarily contribute content, create products, and solve problems for you.
C: Captcha – an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Captcha’s are often used to help separate humans from spam robots when leaving comments on a blog.
D: del.icio.us & Digg – Popular social bookmarking sites that enable users to store, share, and organize their favorite web sites and web pages.
E: Engagement – be an active participant online. Engage with blogs by leaving comments, share information with friends on social sites like Facebook, and tweet and retweet your followers on Twitter.
F: Facebook – a popular social networking site where users can create profiles, add friends, share photos and communicate with a select group of people. Users can become “fans” of organizations, people, and other entities. Users can also join groups and enter networks organized by schools, workplaces, or location.
G: Groundswell – a fast and spontaneous social trend that gathers force and influences public opinion.
H: Hyper-local – news coverage on a smaller, local, community level than is usually provided by regional news outlets. Also known as “narrow-interest” news.
H: Hashtag – Hashtags can be used to organize conversations around a particular event or a popular topic of conversation on Twitter. By organizing tweets around a hashtag, users following and participating in a conversation can find all Tweets about that subject. Ex. #socialmediaa-z
I: Influencer – a person that is recognized in the online community as someone who affects others’ thoughts and opinions. An Influencer is generally sought out for his/her expertise and knowledge in a specific subject area.
J: Join – join conversations and discussions online. Share information and be an active participant in social media sites.
K: Keep it simple – ‘nuff said.
L: LinkedIn – is a social and business networking site used primarily by professionals for organizing and connecting with business contacts.
M: Micro Blogging – a form of blogging that consists of extremely brief updates such as text messages, Tweets, photos, or audio or video clips.
N: Network – a set of connections or a group of people that a user sets up consisting of other people with similar interests.
O: Online Community – a group of individuals who share common interests and use the internet to communicate, network, and share information with each other.
P: Participate – To make the most of social media, you need to participate. Share your ideas and connect with people by participating in conversations online.
Q: Quick – Social media is quick and agile. It doesn’t take a lot of time to get involved.
R: Retweet – rebroadcasting or resending a twitter message that someone else sent.
S: Share – share links, feeds, videos etc… by posting them to your Facebook, Twitter, blog, or other social media site.
T: Twitter – Twitter is a free social media site that gives users a way to engage in “micro-blogging,” with a large online community in short, 140-character-or-less, messages.
U: UGC – User-generated content (UGC) refers to various kinds of media content that is produced by the audience or user and shared publicly. An example of UGC are videos posted to YouTube.
V: Viral Marketing – Viral marketing is when an idea or concept is spread by word-of-mouth instead of traditional paid advertising or marketing avenues. When something goes viral in social media, it is shared repeatedly and spread around by users taking on a life of it’s own.
W: Widgets – portable web code that can be posted, shared, and installed on any HTML-based web site by anyone without requiring any additional sets of programs.
X: XML – is an acronym for “Extensible Markup Language”. XML is a popular set of rules used to electronically code documents so that they can be used for RSS feeds.
Y: YouTube – YouTube is a popular online video community that allows users to easily upload and share videos.
Z: Zip – $0, nada, zero, nil. The monetary cost of using most social media tools. Especially if they come from PBS!
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