Daily Bytes: Blog & Social Media Glossary, New AIM, Twistory & Social Media Fears
Posted on Wed, Sep 23, 2009
Today’s Daily Bytes focuses on a glossary of blogging and social media terms, the new improved AIM instant messenger tool, a new Twitter mashup tool and five ways to help face the fear of social media.
Glossary of Blog and Social Media Terms
This is definitely a post to book mark for ready reference. This glossary put together by Converstations provides simple easy to understand definitions of all things related to social media and blogging. And as the world of blogging and social media is ever evolving, Converstations promises to maintain this as a “work-in-progress.”
New AIM With Lifestream Launches
Do you use Instant Messenger? Well if you do, you should definitely be checking out the new updated AIM product which I saw demoed at the TechCrunch 50 conference last week. It is very powerful as it enables to you to integrate and manage your various social media streams including Twitter, Facebook, You Tube, Digg, Delicious and Flickr. AOL is definitely rocking with this new product. Learn more about it here from this post from the Somewhat Frank blog.
3 Reasons to Use Twistory for Business
Does your business use Twitter? Have you been tracking your Twitter interaction? What is it telling you? Or do you need help analyzing it? Twistory looks like a cool product to help you do that. It is a Twitter mashup of your tweet history that can also be integrated with desktop and online calendars. DuctTape Marketing provides three reasons as to why you should consider using it.
5 Ways to Help Face the Fear of Social Media
Last night, I was with the CEO of a successful business who was expressing frustration about what people sometimes say unfairly about his business online. At the same time, he was expressing doubts about the efficacy of social media as protection against such chatter. I will be sending him this post by Kyle Lacy.