The final part of our A to Z of social media finds us looking at the common terms from Tag to Zoomr (we may have been clutching at straws a bit to fill every letter we admit). Anyone got any suggestions for something starting with ?x??
T
Tag ? an element of classification, keyword, or term that is assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, digital image, or blog post). This kind of meta-data helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are generally chosen informally and personally by the item?s creator or by its viewer, depending on the system.
Tag Cloud?- a visual depiction of user-generated?tags, or the word content of a site or social profile, typically used to describe the content of web sites.
Taxonomy ? an organised way of classifying content, as in a library. This typically provides site contributors with a set of categories under which they can add content and allows people to add their own keywords.
Technorati?- popular blog search engine that provides categories and authority rankings for blogs.
Terms of Service ? the basis guidelines under which a user agrees to use a forum or other web-based place for creating or sharing content. It is recommend a user checks this before agreeing what rights the site owners may claim over your content.
Timeline ? Timeline is the new Facebook format for personal profiles. It is essentially a digital scrapbook of a user?s life, displaying their profile in an actual timeline format so they can see at exactly what point in time something a story occurred.
Tool?- is used here as shorthand for a (local) software applications on your computer, and also for applications that are web-based.
Trend ? A trend is seen on every social network. Facebook shows what is trending when multiple users are sharing the same link or discussing the same topic. Google+ highlights trending topic when a user conducts a search. Twitter has a section to the bottom right of its home feed which clearly shows what topics and hashtags are trending in tweets. And LinkedIn shows what industries (in LinkedIn Today) that a certain story is popular.
Tumblr - Tumblr lets users share content in the form of a blog. Users can post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, or email.
Tweet ? the content of a Twitter post is a tweet, not a twit.
TweetDeck?- an application which connects users with contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and other social sites.
Tweetup?- an organized or impromptu gathering of people that use Twitter, and often utilising a specific hashtag.
Twitter?- a platform that allows users to share 140-character-long messages publicly. User can ?follow? each other as a way of subscribing to each others? messages. Additionally, users can build list of users and use the @username command to direct a message towards another Twitter user.?Twitter has global popularity and is estimated to have 200 million users, generating 65 million tweets a day and handling over 800,000 search queries per day.
Twitterer - the person who Twitters is the Twitterer, not Tweeter.
Twitter Search?- a search engine operated by Twitter to search for Twitter messages and users in real-time.
Tumblr?- a service that lets users share content in the form of a blog. Users can post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, or email.
TypePad?- a free and paid blogging platform similar to Blogger which? allows users to host and publish their own blogs.
U
Unconference ? An unconference is a facilitated, participant-driven conference centred on a theme or purpose. The term ?unconference? has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid one or more aspects of a conventional conference, such as high fees and sponsored presentations.
UGC (User Generated Content) ? covers a range of media content available in a range of modern communications technologies. It entered mainstream usage during 2005 having arisen in web publishing and new media content production circles. Its use for a wide range of applications, including problem processing, news, gossip and research, reflects the expansion of media production through new technologies that are accessible and affordable to the general public. All digital media technologies are included, such as question-answer databases, digital video, blogging, podcasting, forums, review-sites, social networking, mobile phone photography and wikis.
URL?- is most popularly known as the ?address? of a web page on the?World Wide Web, e.g.?http://www.JustSearchSEO.co.uk
USTREAM ? USTREAM is a live interactive broadcast platform that enables anyone with an internet connection and a camera to engage and stream video online.
V
Vanity URL - is a URL or domain name, created to point to something to which it is related and indicated in the name of the URL. In many cases this is done by a company to point to a specific product or advertising campaign microsite. In theory, vanity URLs are creatively linked to something making them easier to remember than a more random link. Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networks offer this service to users.
Viddler ? Viddler is a popular video sharing site similar to YouTube and Vimeo in which users can upload videos to be hosted online and shared and watched by others.
Viddy - Viddy is a video sharing application with editing tools including visual effects, filters, music, and transitions.
Virtual Worlds - online communities such as Second Life or Habbo Hotel, where you can create a representation of yourself (an avatar) and engage socially with other residents. Basic activity is free, but you can buy currency (using real money) in order to purchase land, accessories for your avatar, etc. and trade with other residents. Second Life is being used by some voluntary organisations to run discussions, virtual events and fundraising. Others offer sponsorship opertunities.
Vlog?- produces video content, often around a constant theme and on a regular basis, in a blog format.
Vimeo?- popular video sharing service in which users can upload videos that are hosted online and shared and watched by others. Vimeo user videos are often more artistic and the service does not allow commercial video content.
Viral Marketing?- this refers to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to increase in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives through self-replicating viral processes.
W
Web 2.0 - a term associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centred design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups etc.
Web Analytics?- the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of Internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage.
Webinar?- a method of conducting live meetings, training, or presentations via the Internet.
Widgets?- an element of a?graphical user interface?that displays an information arrangement changeable by the user, such as a?window?or?text box.
Wiki?- a website that allows contributors to easy create and edit of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser, allowing for collaboration in content creation and aggregation.
Wikipedia?- a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit?Wikimedia Foundation. Its 15 million articles (currently over 3.6 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. It is the largest and most popular general?reference work?on the?Internet.
WordPress ? WordPress is a content management system and contains blog publishing tools that allow users to host and publish blogs.
Y
Yammer ? Yammer is a business communication tool that operates as an internal Twitter-like messaging system for employees within an organization. It is used to provide real-time communication and reduce the need for e-mail.
Yelp ? Yelp is a social network and local search website that provides users with a platform to review, rate, and discuss local businesses.
YouTube?- a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. Unregistered users may watch videos, and registered users may upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users 18 and older.
Z
Zoho ? Zoho is a suite of online web applications geared toward business productivity and collaboration
Zooomr?- an online photo sharing service similar to Flickr.
Part 1, A to F, is here.
Part 2, G to L, is here.
Part 3, M to S, is here.
Source: http://www.justsearchseo.co.uk/social-media-optimisation/social-media-glossary-part-4-t-to-z.html
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