Internet Terminologies

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 Bio
 Blog Post/Entry
 Blogroll
 Comment
 Cyber-bullying/Cyber-harassment
 Direct Message
 Follow
 #followfriday
 Geolocation / Geotagging
 Hashtags (#)
 Influencer
 Instant messaging: (IM)
 Meme/Tweetmeme – “Meme”
 Message Boards/Forums

 Micro-blogging
 Multimedia
 RSS Feed
 Retweeting (RT)
 Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
 Social Bookmarking
 Social Networking Sites
 Tweet
 Twitter Search
 RSS Feed
 Tags
 Trackback
 Trending Topic
 URL Shorteners
 Web 2.0
 Widget

Bio
 A short personal
description used to
define who you are.
 Most social media
sites encourage or
require a bio.
 This is a good place
to provide links to
your website or your
company’s website
for additional
visibility.

Blog Post/Entry
Content published on a blog.
Entries may include pictures or
embedded videos and links URLs
for online sources used.

Blogroll
An assembly of blog URLs -blogs
that the blogger reads regularly –
displayed at the sidebar of the
blog.
A website where individuals
provide entries of any type of
content from video, podcasts,
traditional text and photos in order
to inform or create discussions.
Presented in reverse chronological
order.

Comments
Replies or opinions in
reference to the topic at
hand; usually left on blog
posts

Cyberbullying/Cyberharassment
Common terms used to describe
name-calling and harassment online

Direct Message
Most commonly used in
Twitter, although LinkedIn and
Facebook have a similar
feature.
Direct Messages are private
between only the sender and
recipient.
Tweets become DMs when
they begin with “d username”
to specify who the message is
for

Follow
To follow someone on
Twitter means to
subscribe to their
Tweets or updates on
the site

#Followfriday
To recommend users that others
should follow by including their
username and #followfriday or
#FF in a tweet.
Sometimes you’ll see a tweet
full of usernames with no
specific reason for the
followfriday recommendation
whereas other times you’ll read
a “why” as well as names.

Geolocation / Geotagging
The use of location data in
Tweets to tell us where you
are in real time.

Hashtags (#)
Use the sharp or number sign
(#) as part of a “hashtag” to
organize and categorize your
information.
Whether or not you’ve got an
account, Twitter hashtags are
an easy way to follow
conversations about different
topics.

Influencer
A person specialized in a
specific subject matter
and highly recognized in
an online community that
has the ability to sway
others’ thoughts; key
influencers are seen as
references or for
assistance on specific
subject matters.

Instant messaging
The tools allow you to indicate
whether or not you are available for
a chat, and if so can be a good
alternative to emails for a rapid
exchange.
Problem arise when people in a
group are using different IM tools
that don’t connect. One way around
this is to use a common Voice over IP
tool like Skype that also provides IMc

Meme/Tweetmeme
TweetMeme is actually a
piece of software (a plugin)
that helps social media
participants perpetuate
this phenomenon by
adding a “Tweet this”
button to their blog posts.
Some people refer to a
tweetmeme as a “theme”
or popular topic that is
used in many tweets

Message Boards/Forums
people looking to
discuss particular
issues or needing
support post threads
(a message) on the
forum or message
board in hopes to
gain more
information or start a
conversation

Micro-blogging
A form of
blogging
where the
entries/posts
are limited to
a certain
amount of
characters or
words, i.e.
Twitter.

Multimedia
Media and content in
different forms such as
videos, pictures, etc.
Examples include
YouTube and Flickr
Podcasts – Online audio
or visual recordings
syndicated on the
Internet and available
to download to
portable media players
such as an iPod

RSS Feed
Really Simple
Syndication; a
system that
generates
frequently
updated
information
from a site

Retweeting
act of sharing someone
else’s tweet with your
followers – spreading the
word wider. To identify a
retweet, the Twitter
convention is to put RT at
the start of the retweet
and to include the Twitter
username of the person
you are retweeting like
attributing a quote.

Is a form of Internet marketing
that seeks to promote websites
by increasing their visibility in
search engine result pages
(SERPs).
According to the Search Engine
Marketing Professional
Organization,
SEM methods include: Search
engine optimization, paid
placement,
contextual advertising,
and paid inclusion (Wikipedia,
Search Engine Marketing)
Search Engine Marketing

Social Bookmarking
Method to organize, store
and share items (i.e. blog
posts, online articles,
pictures, etc.) of interest
using the item’s URL Search
Engine Optimization (SEO)
Is the process of improving
the volume and quality of
traffic to a web site from
search engines via
“natural” (“organic” or
“algorithmic”) search
results. (Wikipedia, Search
Engine Optimization)

Social Networking Sites
Large sites that host multiple
communities comprised of people with
profiles who have with similar interests.
Facebook – An online community for people
to connect or re-connect with others. Enables
people to share videos, pictures and
information about themselves.
LinkedIn – A professional online community
used to network with fellow professionals; an
online resume sharing site
MySpace – A site where people can meet
others with similar interests, creating online
communities by sharing videos, photos, and
personal information

Friendfeed – enables you to keep up-to-date
on the web pages, photos, videos and music
that your friends and family are sharing
YouTube – An online site for uploading and
discussing videos; Videos can also be
embedded from YouTube onto other social
media sites such as blogs or social networks
Flickr –Online site for storing, sharing and
commenting on photos
Twitter – A micro-blogging community where
posts and links are 140 characters or less

Tweet
The post/entry
made on Twitter

Tags
a keyword or term
associated and
assigned to an item
of content. Usually
added to an item of
content to enhance
search engine
optimization and
make it content
easier to organize and
find

Trackback
some blogs provide a facility
for other bloggers to leave a
calling card automatically,
instead of commenting.
Blogger A may write on blog
A about an item on blogger
B’s site, and through the
trackback facility leave a link
on B’s site back to A. The
collection of comments and
trackbacks on a site
facilitates conversations.

Trending Topic
A subject
algorithmically
determined to be
one of the most
popular on Twitter
at the
moment.URL - A
Uniform Resource
Locator (URL) is a
web address that
points to a unique
page on the
internet.

URL Shorteners
Because of the 140
character limit of each
tweet, it can be difficult to
include full URLs in a
message. Even this page
has a URL that contains 45
characters… or nearly 1/3 a
full tweet! Luckily, there are
many services that can take
a long URL and give you a
shorter one, usually under
20 characters, to use
instead. Two of the best
known sites are Bit.ly and
tinyurl.

Web 2.0
Is the business
revolution in the
computer industry
caused by the move
to the Internet as a
platform, and an
attempt to
understand the rules
for success on that
new platform

A mini
application that
performs a
specific function
and connects to
the Internet
Widget

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