1. The Online Social Media

3. Social Media Defined What is Social Media?

5. Social Media Components What Make Up Social Media?

6. Social Media Components (Networking Sites)‏ Facebook - “A social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers.” LinkedIn - “LinkedIn is an interconnected network of experienced professionals from around the world, representing 170 industries and 200 countries”

7. Social Media Components (Social News & Bookmarking)‏ Digg.com - “Most popular social news website on the internet. Covers all topics including politics, entertainment, technology and general news.” Small Business Brief: “A niche social site which focuses on small business news. It include marketing and sales, website development, management and entrepreneurship.”

8. Social Media Components (Blogs & Wikis)‏ Blog : “A website that allows individual to add regular entries commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or videos.” Wiki: “A wiki is a page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who has access it to contribute or modify content. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites.”

9. Social Media Components (Multimedia)‏ Youtube: “YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube made it possible for anyone who could use a computer to post a video that millions of people could watch within a few minutes.” Flickr: “Flickr is an image and video hosting website and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository”

10. Social Media Components (Virtual World)‏ Virtual World - A virtual world is a computer-based simulated environment intended for its users to inhabit and interact via avatars. These avatars are usually depicted as textual, two-dimensional, or three-dimensional graphical representations. Some, but not all, virtual worlds allow for multiple users.

11. Social Media is Changing The Way We Do Business How Does Social Media Change The Way We Do Business?

12. Social Media is Changing Our Business The power to define and control a brand is shifting from corporations and institutions to individuals and communities .

13. Facts Fact: Social media going mainstream

14. Facts Fact: Social media going political

17. How Can Business Use Social Media Tell Me How This Work For Business

20. Social Media Myths

21. Social Media Myths

22. Social Media Myths

23. Social Media Myths

24. Social Media Myths

25. Social Media Myths

26. Case Studies Case Studies of Businesses Using Social Media

31. Social Media Best Practice If You Want to Get Into Social Media, Do This and Don't Do This

34. Useful Resources Our Recommended Reading and Tools

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