“How do you define "social media" as opposed to "social networking"? Have you noticed that the first term is becoming ubiquitous while the second term is not used much anymore?”
I usually say that 'social networking' or 'social networks' are the 'private side' (facebook, linkedin, etc) , and 'social media' the 'public side' (digg, delicious, flickr, youtube, twitter, friendfeed) - Alex Barredo
Great point, Laura, something I've been thinking about as I'm helping my organization write up a social media policy. I first learned the term "social media" from Beth K. and agree that "social network" and, esp. "social networking" are going by the wayside. Another question to throw on the heap: how do you refer to a place where one finds social media? A social media "presence"? An "outlet"? Something else altogether? God help us if it's "social media network" -- arrrrgh! - Jonathon D. Colman
You mean like a place where an organization might bring in all their social media RSS feeds? How about a "social media hub"? Although I suppose that could be ambiguous also! - Laura Norvig
I would interpret 'social media' as being either an individual item of or a collective noun for an information delivery technology or platform e.g a podcast, a blog, RSS, etc. and 'Social networking' is something that happens as a result of infornation sharing using social media - Tony Molloy
I rather like danah boyd's definition of a social network site: We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site.(http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/...) - Fitzgerald Steele
what's interesting to me is how people define the word 'media'. I was originally thinking of it as mediums that go beyond words so, photos, videos - hence flickr and youtube as 'social media'. There is also the sense of media in its common use as 'news'. However, there is another thread on FF, which I can't find now, that defines media as 'the medium in which people communicate' hence blogs, email, discussion groups are all social media. - Laura Norvig
This is a collaborative resource. Created by activists, for activists. We are discussing the basics of organizing loose groups of people - networks. - Tony Molloy
I implemented a simple in-house Wordpress blog on an old server as an experiment in creating an 'intranet' for the non-profit where I work, using posts for dynamic content and pages for the static stuff (internal phone list, etc), to hopefully provide a central, timely, information source and to see if the staff&volunteer team would get value from it. It got 60+ posts in the first month from a wide range of staff and volunteers, some of whom I wouldn't have expected to take part in it. It's very popular and is really working well for us. All those who register can post their own information (subject to some posting rules) whenever they like and it isn't seen as being directly controlled and owned by IT (me!) Given the minimal cost in setting up such a service, it could be quite a simple and cost effective solution for small organisations, even if only as a trial to judge it's appropriateness to their needs. - Tony Molloy
I too am aged 50, but I don't describe myself as a digital native. I really only got into computers, and therefore the Internet in 1995. I well remember the days before the Internet. - Paul Rees
I am digital native, age 51. Maybe it isn't age, but a mindset - Beth Kanter
I'm a 48 year old digital native as well. I do think it's mindset. But then, I spent a little time with a 10 year old who was playing with my iPhone - wow. Maybe I'm not as much of a native as I thought. - Michelle Murrain
You are old, guys ;) Thanks for posting my blog post, Paul :) - Timo Heuer
Jonathon - thanks for posting this! I wrote about why in this post http://beth.typepad.com/beths_... but I like the conversation here and the fact we're intentional about sharing ideas. - Beth Kanter
I joined because iit seemed a good additional channel to FIR and an interesting source of ideas and information and a means of taking part in the conversation. - Tony Molloy
For me it was simply dipping my toe in the water. Having done that the main thing I've learned how the culture of the social web works and that there is a sub-culture of people who are really into using the social web to interact with others. - Paul Rees
I'm here mainly as an observer. I try to seek out "frontiers" on the web: places only very special people can reach. This is one of them: you are all probably nonprofit-minded AND you know Friendfeed. That results in this subset of 150 members. - Meryn Stol
Jonathon .. do you want to do an experiment to increase our numbers or should be try to get people who already joined more engaged? - Beth Kanter
It's a good question, B -- I remember your experiment that initially got people involved. What does the community think? Would you like to have more folks in the sand box or higher-quality sand castles? :) - Jonathon D. Colman
I wanted to find out what other people were thinking/talking about - Michelle Murrain
I joined shortly after the room got started. It's been an awesome addition to my current set of "rooms"... it's like another vein of data. - Clay Newton
Jonathon - do you think that we focused on a deeper engagement, the numbers would follow? this is helpful as I'm working on the wearemedia module for community building. - Beth Kanter
Incollector is an application to collect various kinds of information like notes, conversation logs, quotes, serial numbers, source code, web addresses, words - Tony Molloy
Incollector is an application to collect various kinds of information like notes, conversation logs, quotes, serial numbers, source code, web addresses, words - Tony Molloy
