At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and content. Technologies include: blogs, picture-sharing, vlogs, wall-postings, email, instant messaging, music-sharing, crowdsourcing, and voice over IP, to name a few.

In fact, it’s a fairly easy case that blogs were the first modern form of social media. I say “modern” because many would argue that social media started pre-web with Internet Relay Chat and BBS systems. Heck, the most popular part of lame ol’ America Online was the cyber-sex social aspect.

The article and the comments are an interesting read… my comment
is in answer to Matt Baker’s comment (#17):

Matt Baker July 10, 2009 at 10:37 am
“The distinction, I think, is that many “blogs” are one-way communication devices. Comments are turned off, feedback is discouraged, and community doesn’t exist.
If a blog serves as a gathering point, then it’s social media. But a large percentage of them don’t.”

The other side of Matt Baker’s comment jumped out at me,
a blogger who hopes for community and invites comments without being much of a gathering point…yet.

I do know that it takes time to engage a segment of the social media community and that’s OK … I can ‘take a sad song and make it better’…

For the whole conversation, go to Copyblogger

Fran

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