A – Z of Social Media
I’m starting a blogging relay – a challenge for my team and you dear reader – and together we shall make a comprehensive, useful, current and interesting A – Z of Social Media, one blog post at a time!
I’m starting with ‘A’…. please add any other ‘A’s you can think of as comments. Then, the baton gets passed on, and taken from my fair hands from one of my team members, to start on ‘B’ for the rest of us to add to in the same way.
Gettit?
I’ll begin…
A
Addictomatic is a new buzz monitoring tool that allows you to search your keywords (your company name, any events you need to track online coverage of, your own name etc) from a range of online places, including Flickr photos, blogs, Twitter, Technorati and social bookmarks.
Unfortuanatly it doesn’t yet search forums, which for some buzz monitoring would be essential, and have not talked about plans to add these to the functionality… yet. (One good free tool to track buzz on forums is Board Tracker… oops, stepping into ‘B’!)
Ambient intimacy is a lovely term coined by Lisa Reichelt quite some time ago in this blog post (worth a read) which I think summarises quite nicely what the social web has done to our personal relationships. To quote Lisa:
“Ambient intimacy is about being able to keep in touch with people with a level of regularity and intimacy that you wouldn’t usually have access to, because time and space conspire to make it impossible. Flickr lets me see what friends are eating for lunch, how they’ve redecorated their bedroom, their latest haircut. Twitter tells me when they’re hungry, what technology is currently frustrating them, who they’re having drinks with tonight.”
I like that even if I don’t get to see my friends as often as I like due to our ever increasingly busy lives I don’t feel so disconnected to them due to the lengths of time apart – by following them on Flickr, Twitter and even Facebook I still feel close to how they are doing, where they are at any one time.
Any more ‘A’s? please add to the list in the comments!
Next, ‘B‘….. http://www.nixonmcinnes.co.uk/2008/11/10/a-z-of-social-media-b-is-for/
Anna wrote this on 24.09.08 – 6 comments
It's filed in the A2Z of Social Media, Buzz monitoring, Interesting, Internet, Social media box
On September 27th, 2008 at 11:20 pm, Carol Shergold responded:
Nice idea; I’ll look forward to the whole alphabet!
Maybe another “A” would be aggregation, because the big powerful enabler behind social web-tools is the concept of web services offering feeds, and web pages consuming feeds.
Aggregated intimacy?
On September 29th, 2008 at 1:09 pm, Jenni responded:
A is for… AJAX
I’m not going to get technical (don’t want to embarrass myself) but AJAX is a combination of web technologies that let interactions happen on the page in front of your very eyes, rather having to load a new page. This makes interactions fast and super smooth and helps build a bit of user love for a site.
It’s used in all the well known ‘web 2.0′ applications, like social bookmarking site delicious.com and task management tool rememberthemilk.com. (if you’ve never seen remember the milk – it’s amazing! Use it and get your life sorted (if that’s not too big a promise…!)
On September 30th, 2008 at 9:13 am, Matt responded:
Brilliant – lets get that alphabet filled up!
On October 1st, 2008 at 2:07 pm, Trak responded:
‘Avatar’ has to go on the A list, if only because the creation of virtual personas has lead to some of the weirdest, most delusional and narcissistic behaviour online (and offline!).
An avatar is a graphical image used to represent a person online, most typically within a virtual world like the infamous http://www.secondlife.com, where visitors interact with each other in character. You can build a visual character with the body, clothes, behaviours, gender and name you choose. This affords those who want to relinquish the self made shackles of their real world existence, unadulterated self expression.
I like this, for teens: http://www.habbo.com/ ’tis cool
On October 1st, 2008 at 4:36 pm, Jenni responded:
sorry Carol – for some reason Akismet thought your comment was questionable. Although I have to say I agree that aggregation is key – and fundamental to mash-ups, which we’ll surely need to tackle when we get to M…
A… is also for Akismet
One of the biggest downers of the online world is spam – and for blog owners the comment form is usually the door spammers use to litter your site with exciting offers for a variety of pills and hair raising videos.
Thankfully, Automattic, a corporation that employs some of the developers behind the WordPress blogging platform, released Akismet as a free spam filtering tool. According to Wikipedia: ‘Akismet has captured over 7.8 billion spam comments and pings of September 2008′ – that’s whole lot of blushes spared…
On December 11th, 2008 at 6:00 pm, A is for. . . | blog.scenestealer.co.uk responded:
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