What is Social Media?
This is the 1st part of Social Media 101 Series.
Social media is a web-enbaled social platform, a world built on ideas such as participation, openness, conversation, community and connectedness. A world where people are linking up with each other in various ways…
They write reviews for each other on Epinions and Yelp
They connect to each other using social networks like Facebook and MySpace
They upload, share and comment on each other photos on Flickr
They record, upload, share and comment on each other videos on YouTube
They collaborate with each other to create valuable information on wikipedia
They post their short thoughts and connect to each other on Twitter
They react to and help each other on forums
They organize the world information through links and tags
They post their ideas on everything using their blogs
They write, post and read their news on digg and Mixx
They save their bookmarks on del.icio.us
and many more…
In other words, Social media describes the online tools and platforms that people use to connect with each other, and share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives.
Social media has many different forms, including text, images, audio, and video. Popular social media sites include blogs, social networks, forums, social news, podcasts, wikis, social video and widgets.
The web is a connection machine. It is connecting people with information, action, and each other. It is in those connections that value is created, knowledge is built, and relationships are formed.
Every action, every link and every click is an expression of a connection.
Social Media is the new web-enabled layer of easy, natural, instant and continuous connections over society.
I love the map! This could bring a whole new dimension to location based social networking i.e. mash the mobile-centric (Plazes, BrightKite) with a virtual map across the social platforms and have physical and virtualised locational services.
Quality piece of cartography!
Agree
I never thought of the image more than an expression of Social media world but come to think of it, your idea sounds like a useful and fun social media tool.
Someone must pick it up and give it a try…
That is really creative! a great way to really see what you are doing and remember why. I can learn from that, although I can not draw! I still make stick people.
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I have to agree with Steve. Great map you’ve drawn there. It really sums up the ‘world’ of social media
I did not draw this great map, I found it online and immediately fell in love with it, same as you guys
Great
where is Google in the map
Google’s presence is through YouTube and Orkut, but it should be there as well… maybe it’s a whole continent
hii there; i love that map. so creative
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