{"id":1996,"date":"2011-06-07T08:18:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T12:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2011-06-08T09:14:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T13:14:37","slug":"an-attempt-at-defining-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"An attempt at defining &#8220;social media&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want the definition of \u201csocial media\u201d? Google it an find that Wikipedia defines it :<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201care media for social interaction using highly accessible and scalable pubishing techniques. Social media uses web-based technologies to turn communication into interactive dialogues.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But we came across a few tongue-in-cheek\u00a0definitions of social media from Jackson Wightman:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The group of web based things that saved the PR profession from going the way of dinosaurs<\/li>\n<li>The group of web based things that brought loads of losers out of their moms\u2019 basements and turned them into internet superstars<\/li>\n<li>A much hyped marketing channel whose overall performance is still dubious, due to the difficulty in measuring its impact on the bottom line with any degree of rigor<\/li>\n<li>The \u2018next\u2019 version of email marketing (remember how hyped that was)<\/li>\n<li>The collection of web based things that killed\u00a0society\u2019s attention span<\/li>\n<li>A misunderstood group of tools that are driving Fortune 500 executives crazy<\/li>\n<li>A marketing channel where \u201cawesome\u201d is the most used word<\/li>\n<li>Scary shit, because you have to keep feeding the beast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0[ SOURCE:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonwightman.com\/2010\/10\/9-awesome-definitions-of-social-media\/\">http:\/\/www.jacksonwightman.com\/2010\/10\/9-awesome-definitions-of-social-media\/<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p>Social media is\u00a0misunderstood more than it is appreciated. One certainty &#8211; it&#8217;s both a blank sheet for your creativity and a\u00a0black hole for your spare moments. It\u2019s all and nothing. The\u00a0value on derives from it is found in what\u00a0is\u00a0shared with your &#8220;friends&#8221; \u2013 and the world. It\u2019s what you give \u2013 of not only your time, but also of yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want the definition of \u201csocial media\u201d? Google it an find that Wikipedia defines it : \u201care media for social interaction using highly accessible and scalable pubishing techniques. Social media uses web-based technologies to turn communication into interactive dialogues.\u201d But we came across a few tongue-in-cheek\u00a0definitions of social media from Jackson Wightman: The group of web&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}