Understanding What All The Fuss is About!
Astroturfing: when formal PR campaigns give the impression of spontaneous grassroots behaviour.
Blog: is a journal that is available on the web that mixes candor, informality, opinion, links to third-party information and allows readers to add their own comments. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger".
Boing Boing: a publishing entity, first established as a magazine, that became a group blog in 2000.
Crowdsourcing: a business model that depends on work being done by volunteers and amateurs who use their spare time to create content, solve problems and provide research.
del.icio.us: a bookmarking service that allows users to share their bookmarked sites with others.
Digg: a website where articles submitted by users are ranked and displayed based on a user-based voting system.
Dooced: to lose one's job due to entries published on a blog.
Flikr: a photo-sharing website that allows photos to be tagged and browsed by users.
Folksonomy: the labeling of websites by the user community through a democratic tagging system that reflects the opinions of the general public.
Link Love: the posting of a link to sites or blogs, usually unsolicited, that you enjoy, admire or find useful.
Mashup: a website that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience
Meme: an Internet phenomenon akin to a fad, in which something relatively unknown becomes increasingly popular, but usually lasts for a short time.
Podcast: an audio file, usually in MP3 format, that can be downloaded and listened to on any compatible audio device or computer and is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds.
RSS/Really Simple Syndication: a group of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts.
Tag: another word for online bookmark, you create tags when you need them and you can use as many as you like.
Technorati: an Internet search engine for searching blogs.
Stumble upon: social discovery tool.
User-generated content (UGC): online content that is produced by users as opposed to traditional media sources.
URL: stands for Uniform; Resource; Locator.
Web 2.0: so called second generation of Internet-based services, such as social networking sites, that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.
Wiki: from the Hawaiian term for "quick" a form of website that allows readers to edit and contribute in an open collaborative forum.
Wikipedia: a multilingual, web-based, encyclopedia featuring free content contributed by users.
Source:CNW Group A Guide to Social Media