4. Why people use social media?
Social media creates a community where like minded people can interact,
mingle, and explore. They provide informa<on that’s judged by those
within the community to be deemed noteworthy. It is interes<ng to note
that social media sites have the same basic format in how they propagate
the content provided by their users. Individuals are able to vote on the
content or respond to the content. In this way, social media sites seek to
gain and direct viewers. Social media is about giving control over
informa<on back to the masses.
8. How to use Social Media, in general terms
One of the key components in successful social media marke<ng implementa<on
is building "social authority". Social authority is developed when an individual
or organiza<on establishes themselves as an "expert" in their given field or
area, thereby becoming an influencer in that field or area.
It is through this process of "building social authority" that social media becomes
effec<ve. That is why one of the founda<onal concepts in social media has
become that you cannot completely control your message through social
media but rather you can simply begin to par<cipate in the "conversa<on" in
the hopes that you can become a "relevant influence" in that conversa<on.
10. Possible tools
Technologies include:
• blogs, • instant messaging,
• picture‐sharing, • music‐sharing,
• vlogs, • crowdsourcing,
• wall‐pos<ngs, • and voice over IP
• email,
Many of these social media services can be integrated via
social network aggrega<on plagorms.
30. Prac<cal tools: Social Network aggrega<on plagorms
• Social network aggrega.on is the process of collec<ng content from mul<ple
social network services, such as MySpace or Facebook or Twi[er. The task is ouen
performed by a social network aggregator, which pulls together informa<on into a
single loca<on, or helps a user consolidate mul<ple social networking profiles into
one profile. Various aggrega<on services provide tools or widgets to allow users to
consolidate messages, track friends, combine bookmarks, search across mul<ple
social networking sites, read RSS feedsfor mul<ple social networks, see when their
name is men<oned on various sites, access their profiles from a single interface,
provide "lifestreams", etc.