What is Social Media
How it works
Social Media Technology
Social Media Communications
More Technologies
100

Online services, site or apps that allow us to interact and use 2-way communication between publisher and the users

What is Social Media?

100

The number of times a piece of content is displayed.

What is Impression?

100

A keyword that uses a hash symbol as a prefix

What is a Hashtag?

100

A program or mobile app that allows real-time or delayed communication between users.

What is Instant Messaging?

100

A service that allows a computer to send or receive Short Message Service (SMS).

What is SMS Gateway?

200

One-way communication methods in which the publisher creates content and sends that content and sends that content to the end-user via media source

What is Traditional Media?

200
The number of places a particular content item is made available.

What is Distribution?

200

Information that describes other data.

What is Metadata?

200

A method of communication in which a user types and send short messages from one mobile phone to another.

What is Text Messaging?

200

A technology that converts voice into digital form and delivers it using the internet.

What is Voice over IP or VoIP?

300

The actual number of unique people who access a particular content item, such as an advertisement.

What is Reach?

300

The number of times within a certain period that a particular content item is published in the media.

What is Frequency?

300

Keywords, category names or metadata used to describe an online content item.

What are tags?

300

The process of broadcasting live video or audio over the internet to an audience. 

What is Live Streaming?

300

A Web browser or application that collects syndicated content into a single location.

What is an Aggregator?

400

The process of a particular content item becoming widely popular by multiple people sharing it.

What is Viral?

400

The ease of obtaining the tools needed to publish content.

What is Accessibility?

400

A web 2.0 implementation by which Web data is contextualized with the addition of machine-readable metadata.

What is Semantic Web?

400

A program or mobile app that allows real-time communication between online users.

What is Live Chat?

400

A markup Language used to store, describe and share data on the Web.

What is Extensible Markup Language (XML)?

500

Content that is created by the users of an online system or service

What is UGC?  or User-generated content?

500

The potential audience for a piece of content; the total number of your followers plus the number of followers for each person who shares the content.

What is Exposure?

500

A programming methodology for the Web that enables Web applications to interact with users.

What is Ajax?

500

Audio or video digital media files that are distributed through Web feeds to subscribed users.

What is a Podcast?

500

The use of WWW technology and Web design to develop online information sharing and collaboration services.

What is Web 2.0?