Social Media is the biggest means of social interaction at the moment; it’s one step beyond the social communication in this modern era. Enabled with latest techniques, it significantly changes the way of communication among organizations, communities, as well as individuals.
Some of the best social media sites are -
Youtube
It is a video sharing website that was launched in February 2005 by 3 former employees of PayPal, where users are allowed to upload, share, and view videos. But, it no more remains a video sharing and viewing platform, and it has rather turned into a social media site, as just about every company wants to advertise on their YouTube channel!
YouTube is based out of San Bruno, California, and mainly uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML technology. Google Inc bought YouTube in November 2007, and now it operates as a subsidiary of Google.
The Slogan “Broadcast Yourself” pretty much defines the aim of the site!
This is an online social networking and micro blogging service company headquartered at San Francisco, US with branch offices in San Antonio, Boston, and New York City. It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched in July 2006, and today most of the internet users Tweet several times in a day.
Digg
It is a social content sharing website that is driven by the users. Everything on Digg is submitted by the users; after submission, other people can read it, and digg up the ones they like, and bring down the ones that they don’t!
If a particular user’s submission receives more digs, it will be promoted to front page for other visitors to view. The idea for dig was introduced by Kevin Rose and was developed by Owen Byrne. Digg.com was launched in December 2004, and it received another major revamp in the last half of 2011.
Flickr
This website has been designed especially for image hosting and video hosting; it was introduced by Ludicorp in 2004 and was acquired in 2005 by Yahoo. It not only allows users to share their personal photographs, but also hosts images and embeds those in blogs and social media.
Yahoo recently announced that Flickr includes total of 51 million registered members and 80 million unique visitors and hosts more than a billion images.
StumbleUpon
It helps the people in discovering and sharing great websites. StumbleUpon provides nearly 500 topics, out of which users may select the ones that indicate their interest and preferences. Instead of surfing the internet for quality websites, the members of SU are taken directly to websites matching their interests and preferences.
Some of the other popular social media sites include:
• Metacafe.com,
• Scribd.com,
• Del.icio.us,
• rnel.net,
• Backflip.com,
• Favoor.com,
• Feedmarker.com,
• Photoshop-pack.com ,
• Webride.org,
• cCnnectedy.com,
• Ma.gnolia.com,
• 86saveyourlinks.com,
• Tweako.com,
• Plime.com,
• Buzzflash.net
• Clipclip.org,
• Cloudytags.com,
• Blogmarks.net,
• oldrec.com,
• Work.com,
• eBaumsworld, and
• Easybm.com.
One can easily kick off a successful social media marketing campaign by sharing their website links on these sites.
January 5, 2012
Social Media