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New York Times technology writer David Pogue developed this clip and save guide describing all the major social media providers.
Blog: An online journal that’s updated on a regular basis with entries that appear in reverse chronological order
Crowdsourcing: Harnessing the skills and enthusiasm of those outside an organization who are prepared to volunteer their time contributing content or skills and solving problems.
Hashtag: A community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. Twitter users often use a hashtag like #followfriday to aggregate, organize and discover relevant posts.
RSS: Really Simple Syndication or a web feed is a Web standard for the delivery of content — blog entries, news stories, headlines, images, video — enabling readers to stay current with favorite publications or producers without having to browse from site to site. blogs and news content using a news reader
Tags: Tags are keywords added to a blog post, photo or video to help users find related topics or media, either through browsing on the site or as a term to make your entry more relevant to search engines.
Tweet: A post on Twitter, a real-time social messaging system. While all agree on usage of tweet as a noun, people disagree on whether you “tweet” or “twitter” as a verb. RT stands for retweet: Users add RT in a tweet if they are reposting something from another person’s tweet.
Wiki: A wiki is a collaborative website that can be directly edited by anyone with access to it.
Definitions courtesy of SocialBrite
