About social media..

Almost every day we use internet and sometimes some of us choose it aso ne of the best relaxing method. Social media can take many different forms, including message boards, weblogs, wikis, podcasts, pictures, and video. Technologies such as blogs, picture-sharing, vlogs, wall-postings, e-mail, instant messaging, music-sharing, group creation, and voice over IP, to name a few. Examples of social media applications are Google, Wikipedia, MySpace (which is popular worlwide, buti n Latvia much more popular is draugiem.lv), ORB, YouTube, Second Life (virtual reality), and Flickr (photo sharing). Can guarantee that you use at least one of them.

Here are some one line descriptions to be going on with:

Blogs: this is what i am doing now and where you are now.

Social networks: these websites allow people to build personal websites and then connect with friends to share content and communication. The best known example of a social network is MySpace, which has over 107 million members, buti n Latvia you know it like draugiem.lv.

Content communities: communities which organise and share particular kinds of content. (Flickr), bookmarked links (del.icio.us) and videos (YouTube).

Wikis: these websites allow people to add content to or edit the information on them, acting as a communal document or database. The best-known wiki is the online encyclopaedia which has over 1.5 million articles published in English alone.

Podcasts: audio and video files that are available by subscription through services like Apple iTunes.

Forums: areas for online discussion, often around specific topics and interests. Forums predate the advent of the term ‘social media’ and are a powerful and popular element of online communities.

Social media uses the “wisdom of crowds” to connect information in a collaborative manner. It share most or all of the following characteristics: participation, openness, conversation, community, connectedness. Social media does not have a finite limit: there are no set number of pages or hours. (more you can read in www.spannerworks.com )

This was like introduction about social media. You could get new knowledges or you could just brush your existing knowledges about that with what PR practitioners increasingly have to work and legislate for.