Activity with Platforms for Publishing

Social Media Tools Social Media Tools

Assignment-6 : Mohammad Salahuddin

Social Media: Background

People around the world are mostly connected & staying under an umbrella by sharing common interest, thoughts, values, norms, knowledge, education, culture & arts, politics, innovation, production & promotion, business & trade by using computer and networking technologies.

Social media communication network has been made the connectivity very easier for all through different tools.

Social Media: a short description

Social media is web based platform include many different online technology tools that allow the people to communicate each other using internet to share information and resources.

I shoud say- Social media is really powerful and more effective communication horizon that provide various facilities and services to all kind of user like individuals, organizations and mass people.

Social Media: a short description (Cntd.) My study environment is of-course based on Social media and its tools. For example, Optima, Outlook e-mail, SoleOPS, Intra are kind of social media communication tools that provide us various aspect and study materials through online environment. Other media tools are also used as study and communication platforms. Forms: Text, audio, video, images, podcasts, weblogs, social blogs, microblogging, wikis, rating and  social bookmarking, and other multimedia communications.

Social Network:

Social network refers online community of people where every body are connected to meet various purposes.

According to Wikipedia- A social network is a social structure made up of individuals (or organizations) called "nodes", which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.

Social Network: (Cntd.)

I should say- Social networking establishes interconnected internet communities to meet a variety of purposes such as online communication, building relationship, share information & resources, purpose of study materials, business and trade, etc. though there

is misuse and derail matters are involved.

The most popular social networking sites are:

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Google Plus+, Tagged, orkut, hi5, mylife,  friendster,  Meetup, etc.

A clip illustrated the potential of Social Network

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu_lEjis4sg

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 can described a second generation of the World Wide Web that is focused on the ability for people to collaborate and share information online. In addition, it is design patterns and business models for the Next Generation of Software.

Web 2.0 is an user-generated content in a online community which includes social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups and folksonomies.

Web 2.0 has been used more as a marketing term .

Blogs, wikis, and Web services are all seen as components of Web 2.0.

User Generated Content (UGC)

User generated content refers a range of media content or material on websites that produced by the users of the website.

User generated content has become tremendously popular for individuals and companies.

Anybody can write an article with sufficient expertise and make changes as well. Other users may evaluate the content, suggest changes, make comments and opinion. Foe example- Wikipedia.

User generated content may also employ a combination of open source, free software, and flexible licensing or related agreements to further reduce the barriers to collaboration, skill- building and discovery.

Social Media and Business Social media has depth influence in business and trade through sharing information about organization, products, policies and procedures, customer service and feedback, advertisement & marketing, supply and chain management system, order booking and delivery system, etc.

So by social media network, individual and organization can-Participate Listen BuildChooseEngage QueryTransparent Relevance Analyze and optimize

Through out the business environment.

Facebook vs Ning

Facebook Ning

CustomizationAllows limited custom elements. Allows pictures, videos and pools such as YouTube and Flicker applications.

Allows full site customization, including color, theme, elements and domain. Allows pictures, videos and pools such as YouTube and Flicker integration

SecurityEnables admin ability to moderate comments, discussions but public membership.

Enables admin approval, disapproval, and the ability to moderate membership, comments, discussions, etc.

MembershipAnyone with a facebook account can have membership. Over 200 million people.

Approval from admin can be required for membership access. Mass user and delete possible.

InformationAvailable to all of facebook. Not crawled by Google.

All internally contained, access granted only to membership. Not crawled by Google

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