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The word blog is a diminutive form of web log, or an online journal and is also a record of the contents of a website. Social networks are other forms of social media, the two best known of which are probably MySpace and YouTube. MySpace has almost 110 million registered users while YouTube was devised specifically for the dissemination of videos, especially home made videos. Social bookmarking sites are other examples, and sites such as del.icio.us and Blink are well known examples of this type of site. While YouTube is specifically devoted to videos, Flickr exists for the distribution of members’ photographs.

More mundane examples of social media, if they can be described as that, are forums and wikis. Forums allow complete and instant interaction between people on specific topics while wikis are online databases and expert documents that are compiled and edited by members of the public. The best known is probably the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

The fundamental aspects that define social media are those of community and interaction. In all of the above examples there are few restrictions on the participation of ordinary people to contribute to the medium concerned. These types of social media can be used to promote your website if you are able to promote yourself as an expert without seeming to be advertising your product.

If you learn how to use social media in forums, podcasts and even sites such as MySpace and YouTube, that are collectively known as Web2 sites, to market and promote specific pages within your website, then you have a good chance of keeping one step ahead of your competitors. The web pages that you promote should be relevant to the topic of the moment on these social media sites so that you are less liable to be accused of spamming. Check them out and use them to your advantage, but do not actively use them as advertising media.

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