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Re: What is social media?

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Re: What is social media?

Patricia Roy — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:40:26 -0000

Great practical definition of social media v. traditional media

Re: What is social media?

philip1111 — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:30:40 -0000

Social media has infuenced many lives today,not only in bad sense but also in good sense!!
It has given many good advantages to he human life!!
I completely agree with you and am very much impressed with your thoughts and views!!
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Re: What is social media?

Joanne Zimakas — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:11:09 -0000

Hi, I just finished transcribing all the interviews for The Social Media Bible (www.TheSocialMediaBible.com). I was hired virtually by the author. I only mention this as a testament to the power of social media, or as I like to call it, Social Media ².

I urge all to go to and listen to these nearly 50 interviews with the top SVP's and founders of the major social media companies world wide, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, etc. They are 30+/- minute podcasts about how each social media technology is being used for business.

Re: What is social media?

Lon Safko — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:31:33 -0000

I know this is off topic, but I just compiled nearly 50 interviews with the top SVPs and founders of the major social media companies worldwide; Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, etc. for my new book, The Social Media Bible published by John Wiley & Sons. http:www.TheSocialMediaBibl... They are 30+/- minute podcasts about how each technology is being used for business. I found it really interesting to hear how people and businesses are using these tools directly from the source. The book is due out April 20th.
Lon Safko

Re: What is social media?

Andi — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:33:30 -0000

Those definitions are not always so important.

Re: What is social media?

dpabst — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:57:48 -0000

Hey there,

can anybody define the difference between the two abstract terms "Social Media" and "Social Software"? It seems to be quite controversial, since both the terms describe simply one thing, don't they? Software = Media ? What is exactly meant?

Re: What is social media?

Theo — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:02:11 -0000

Mr. Hurd,

Unfortunately while we value human relationships our society has been lacerated from them. We instead fill our intersubjective void with consumption.

(duh) welcome to 1955...

"social" media will thus fall into the same simulacral logic as other forms of media have.

Media is coloured by the specific character of the mode of production in which is has been produced.

Basically, don't put all your eggs in the social media basket because until we create a much more meaningfully intersubjective society that is less alienated and more self-actualized we're fucked no matter what the potential of a technology or a method of communication can potentially offer.

Re: What is social media?

Bullie Pups R Us — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:11:24 -0000

Bullie Pups R Us says where would samll businesses be without the social media? We thrive on it!

Re: What is social media?

Bullie Pups R Us — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:46:56 -0000

Social media is a must if you own a business. It forms true sound relationships and reputation that are valid and reliable sources. If you have become a target for any resaon of unfaor negative publicity then these relatiopnships will prove essential because they will know you and your ethics in business not just something that mindless or malicious people have chosen to write without validity. Bullie Pups R Us owner.

Re: What is social media?

navtej kohli — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:15:51 -0000

I understand that in the digital world...its a new media platform where u can post, edit, interact on published content...its like putting up adjective clause... content may be blog content, article, video and or audio castng.

Re: What is social media?

theopapada — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:18:40 -0000

Contemporary discussions around social media tend to define social media, in contradistinction to traditional media. Does that mean that traditional media i.e. pre-Internet media are unsocial? I think that every communications medium is social in so far it achieves its essential role, that is, to successfully mediate communication between two people. Then it is by definition social. Unsocial media are broken media.
The most oft quoted distinction between social and traditional media has been the direction of communication. Social media are two-way while traditional media are one-way. But communication does not have to be two-way to be communication. That is why we speak of one-way communication; because it involves the successful communication of one person’s message to another. But then pre-Internet media are also social. Then why is everybody talking about ‘Social Media’? What is new about them?

Though i read Scoble's post after writing my own on the subject, and think he pretty much captures it, visit my post at http://agoraplace.wordpress... for another take on the subject.

Re: What is social media?

Dennis Yu — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:58:41 -0000

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Re: What is social media?

Dave Evans — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:08:55 -0000

I took a shot at updating the Wiki entry: "Social media: A form of communications, very often associated with marketing, advertising, or persuassive communication, where the users publish the content with the specific intention of sharing it with others."

Recognizing that "marketing" is simply one aspect of SM, it also seems to be a very fundamental one, for a couple of reasons. First, given that we are each subjected to (if you believe it...) something like 3,000 messages per day, then a commnications medium that potentially *that* (by replacing interruptive push with permission-based pull) is very definitely and properly associated with marketing. Second, when I share a photo album, it's to show (you) what I did. When I share a product experience, it's to show you what happened (good or bad). These are the same thing: content that I want to share on the belief that (you) may enjoy it or benefit from it.

So, yah, marketing is a component of SM. It may be "personal marketing" (as in "Look how cool my last birthday party was...don't you wish you'd been here?) or it may be directed at encouraging or dissuading a potential purchase. Either way, the key elements--being able to alter of adapt it, subjecting it to the collective, the act of publishing user-generated content that is displacing centrally-produced, un-changeable content--are applicable to both personal and business (aka "marketing" ) uses of SM.

I'm hopeful for a world without interruption, where the information I need to make an informed choice--business, commerce, political, personal--is immediately available. Social Media seems to deliver exactly that.

Re: What is social media?

kalpesh — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:30:56 -0000

The ideal defination of social media is the place where people can interact without any commercial or political interruptions. Sadly, the so called social media websites are losing their character and are getting more profit conscious. Can they be called social media anymore?

Re: What is social media?

hanna — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:39:50 -0000

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Re: What is social media?

Poonam — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:52:09 -0000

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Re: What is social media?

Allison P.B — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:05:06 -0000

I graduated from Communication in 1995, just when Gopher started turning into The Internet...and now I am obsolete. Nevertheless, I would like to point out that maybe you shouldn´t worry so much about those "marketing" gurus and fans who are now calling everything "marketing"...it seems to me they are transforming what is simply a new and very interesting worlwide communication phenomena (along with its corresponding social processes and consequences, as any social psychologist will explain) into what they want to be or become, a marketing tool. My message to them would be "go back to your dusty textbooks and get your concepts straight". NOT EVERYTHING in this world is marketing.

Re: What is social media?

David G — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:22:18 -0000

Great post, thanks! I took a shot at summarizing the "9 things" here - let me know what you think. http://poductivity.blogspot...

Re: What is social media?

Amelia White — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:19:17 -0000

Very cool design! Useful information. Go on!

Re: What is social media?

Barry Hurd — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:13:17 -0000

I clipped this from a quick article I wrote a few weeks back on my own blog-

"But the real matter of what a Social Media Platform is all about is relationships. It is about human nature and the personal connections we make with information. As the Web is thrust into “2.0″ or perhaps even “2.5″, online wanderers continue to look for one thing- meaningful information.

Search engines like Yahoo and Google have been harvesting data for over a decade, thrusting our personal decisions through an automated process of A + B = C. Along the way, they have dehumanized the very essence of the information. They have disregarded the human equation.

Social Media is all about being human. It is about conversing with your neighbor, sharing ideas with a world famous author, or even sharing a joke with someone around the world. The “big boys” of the search engine world are finding themselves at the mercy of popular opinion as community sites like Myspace and YouTube encourage users to filter information in the most personal way they can."

Re: What is social media?

John — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:11:16 -0000

Robert--I really enjoyed your presentation yesterday at the "Exploring the Impact of Social Media" session. You sold me on the value of social media....and how it's transformed the way in which information is disseminated/exchanged.

Are group blogs as well received as indivual blogs? Any advice for those setting up a group blog? Thanks.--John

Re: What is social media?

Ian Ketcheson — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:21:23 -0000

Late to the party...

The question is: What ARE social media?

Phrasing it in the plural helps to conceptualize what we are talking about. Don't try to define it is a singular term, cuz it isn't just one thing.

Re: What is social media?

Tom Coates — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:33:34 -0000

I wrote a piece about the social media term early/middle last year - http://www.plasticbag.org/a... - trying to get my head around what people were meaning by the term. I'm not sure it still holds as much water as maybe I'd hoped at the time, and I'm in the process of re-examining it, but it might be of some use.

I think the idea of 'traditional' media versus 'social' media is sort of missing it though - a box of photos is only clumsily considerable as media in the way that we tend to use it. I suspect we might have to reintroduce media (as a variety of ways in which information can be captured and distributed) and disaggregate it somehow into (at least) mass media (in which the channel concentrates on a one-to-many model) and social media (in which there's a more many-to-many relationship).

Re: What is social media?

gwhiz — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:24:17 -0000

Isn't it funny Guy Kawasaki announces today he's zigging to everyone else's zagging? His "best of" blog postings are going to be appearing in Entreprenuer magazine each month. Sounds kinda bass ackwards to me... But, it's "Guy" and I'd put my money on his zigging any day...