While sitting at my desk today, typing away on our weekly newsletter to be distributed shortly, a visiting consultant pops her head over and asks me. "What do you call things like Twitter, Facebook, etc. Interactive media? Networking tools?"
"Social Media" - I answered her, confident in my response.
"Is that the technical term?" she asked me.
In fact it is. So I looked up what social media. According to my favorite wiki, Social media are primarily Internet- and mobile-based tools for sharing and discussing information. The term most often refers to activities that integrate technology, telecommunications and social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio. This interaction, and the manner in which information is presented, depends on the varied perspectives and "building" of shared meaning among communities, as people share their stories and experiences. Businesses also refer to social media as user-generated content (UGC) or consumer-generated media (CGM).
The above picture I found to be clever. Get your twit on. I laughed out loud.
I digress. I continued to research and although I practice social media- I wanted to assure that I was preaching was in fact the whole truth and nothing but.
It is vast and somewhat scary the endless tools and the power of social media. See what I mean by these startling facts: (like 60% of All AMERICANS use social media)
http://thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/
So of all my research in my effort to describe what is social media- I found this. Social Media in Plain English. By the people for the people. http://www.commoncraft.com/socialmedia
It's a great clever video and by far my favorite interpretation of this phenom called social media.
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