Identifying Social Media Platforms Understanding Social Media Searches
Searching Social Networks Navigating the Blogosphere
Scanning Microblogs Video & Photo Sharing Sites
Social News Sites & Article Directories
Q & A Sites Using Social Media Search Engines
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Social networks, blogs, microblogs, video and photo sharing sites, social news sites, article directories, Q & A sites, bookmarking sites and news aggregators.
What is social media platforms?
100
These enable people to establish relationships in virtual communities by sharing personal profiles, participating in groups, and exchanging private and public messages.
What are social networks?
100
Words in a tweet that the author identifies by typing the pound sign operator before the word to create topical categories.
What is hashtag?
100
The percentage of words in an article that people would tend to use to search for information about the topic in the article?
What is keyword density?
100
Users can post a question using ordinary phrases for others to answer?
What are Q & A sites?
200
The process of fine-tuning a Web site so that it ranks at the top of search engine results?
What is search engine optimization?
200
All blogs and their interconnections?
What is blogosphere?
200
Allows users to upload videos for public viewing.
What is a video sharing site?
200
Enables users to submit news stories or other Web pages and vote on news stories posted by others?
What are social news sites?
200
The largest and most popular Wiki site?
What is Wikipedia?
300
Key words that identify the contents of blog and microblog posts, videos, photos, articles, and questions on Q & A sites.
What are tags?
300
Provides the means for people to conduct conversations online by exchanging messages asynchronously.
What is a discussion board?
300
Allows content owners to describe the rights they retain while allowing them to share their content?
What is Creative Commons license?
300
These provide content that typically must be approved to be published?
What are article directories?
300
One example of a social media search engine mentioned in your text?
What is Topsy, Samepoint, or SocialMention?
400
A presentation of tags in which the font size of the text indicates how often the tag is used.
What is a tag cloud?
400
A protocol that gives you the ability to selectively subscribe to automatic updates from a wide variety of social media platforms
What Real Simple Syndication (RSS)?
400
This Twitter operator is typed in front of the twitterer's name to return all messages that contain that name.
What is @?
400
Lets people store and describe their favorite Web pages with tags.
What is a social bookmarking site?
400
Unique in that it combines responses from common users with authoritative sources?