Social Media ABC's

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Aggregation - The process of gathering and remixing content from blogs and other websites that provide RSS feeds. 

Alerts - Search engines allow you to specify words or phrases that you want checked periodically, with results of those searches returned to you by email. 

Archive-  Refers to topics that has been closed but saved for later reference. On blogs, archives are collections of earlier items organised by week or month.

Authenticity- The sense that something or someone is “real” or factual.

Avatars- Are graphical images representing people or brands. .

Blogs -  Websites with dated items of content. 

Blogosphere -  A term used to describe the totality of blogs on the Internet, and the conversations taking place within them.

Blogroll - A list of sites displayed in the sidebar of blog, showing who the blogger reads regularly.

Bookmarking-  Saving the address of a website or item of content, either in your browser  or on a social bookmarking site. 

Browser- The tool used to view websites, and access all the content available there onscreen or by downloading. 

Categories- Specified ways to organize content . 

Chat-  Interaction on a web site, with a number of people adding text items one after the other into the same space at (almost) the same time. 

Comments- Blogs may allow readers to add comments and may also provide a feed for comments as well as for main items. 

Communities- Groups of people communicating mainly through the Internet. 

Community building is the process of recruiting potential community or network participants, helping them to find shared interests and goals, use the technology, and develop useful conversations. A number of different roles may be involved.

Content- Any text, pictures, video and other meaningful material that is on the Internet.

Content management systems- They are software suites offering the ability to create static web pages, document stores, blog, wikis, and other tools. 

Download- To retrieve a file or other content from an Internet site to your computer or other device.

Email- Electronic mail is messages transmitted over the Internet. 

Face-to-face- Used to describe people meeting offline. 

Facilitator-  Someone who helps people in an online group or forum manage their conversations. 

Feeds-  The means by which you can read, view or listen to items from blogs and other RSS-enabled sites without visiting the site, by subscription. 

Forums- Discussion areas on websites, where people can post messages or comment on existing messages asynchronously – that is, independently of time or place. 

Friends- Contacts whose profile you link to in your profile. 

Groups- Collections of individuals with some sense of unity through their activities, interests or values. 

Instant messaging- A chat with one other person. 

Links- Highlighted text or images that, when clicked, jump you from one web page or item of content to another. 

Listening- The art of skimming feeds to see what topics are bubbling up, and also setting up searches that monitor when you or your organisation is mentioned.

Logging in- The process to gaining access to a website that restricts access to content, and requires registration.

Lurkers- People who read but don't contribute or add comments to forums. 

Mashups- The smart mixes that techies do to combine several tools to create a new web services.

Membership- Belonging to a group. 

Networks- Structures defined by nodes and the connections between them. 

Online-  Being connected to the Internet, and also being there in the sense of reading or producing content.

Offline- Not being online, that is, not connected to the Internet. 

Peer-to-peer- Direct interaction between two people in a network. 

Permalink- The address (URL) of an item of content, for example a blog post, rather than the address of a web page with lots of different items.

Photosharing- Uploading your images to a website.

Platform- The framework or system within which tools work. 

Podcast- Audio or video content that can be downloaded automatically through a subscription to a website so you can view or listen offline.

Post- An item on a blog or forum.

Profiles- The information that you provide about yourself when signing up for a social networking site.

Registration- The process of providing a username, password and other details when seeking to access a website that has restricted access. 

RSS- Short for Really Simple Syndication, this allows you to subscribe to content on blogs and other social media and have it delivered to you through a feed.

Sharing- Offering other people the use of your text, images, video, bookmarks or other content by adding tags, and applying copyright licenses that encourage use of content.

Social media- A term for the tools and platforms people use to publish, converse and share content online. 

Social networking- Online places where users can create profiles and socialize with others using a range of social media tools including blogs, video, images, tagging, lists of friends, forums and messaging.

Tags- Keywords attached to a blog post, bookmark, photo or other item of content so you and others can find them easily through searches and aggregation.

Terms of services- The basis on which you agree to use a forum or other web-based place for creating or sharing content.

Threads-  Strands of conversation. 

Tool is used here as shorthand for a software applications on your computer, and also for applications that are Web-based.

Topic- An idea, issue - talking point - in a conversation that is made up of threads.

Upload- To transfer a file or other content from your computer to an Internet site.

URL- Short for Unique Resource Locator and is the technical term for a web address

User generated content-  Text, photos and other material produced by people who previously just consumed. 

Voice over Internet Protocol-  Also known as VOIP enables you to use a computer or other Internet device for phone calls without additional charge, including conference calls. 

Widgets- Stand-alone applications you can embed in other applications, like a website or a desktop. 

Whiteboards- They are tools that enable you to write or sketch on a web page, and as such are useful in collaboration online.

Wiki- A web page - or set of pages - that can be edited collaboratively.