Social Media Services
What is Social Media?
Social media is the generic term for media tools such as Blogs, Wiki's, RSS Feeds and sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
What is a Blog?
A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in the form of a public diary and displayed in a reverse chronological order. Blogs often provide commentary or news on a wide ranging amount of subjects.
A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs.
What is a Wiki?
A wiki is a website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change available content, and typically without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring. The term wiki also can refer to certain specific wiki sites, such as Wikipedia, a popular online Encyclopaedia where the visitors maintain and update its content.
What is an RSS feed?
RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts.
RSS makes surfing your favourite sites for news and updates much easier as it draws this information as a ‘feed’ (often depicted by an icon similar to the one shown here) and, as it is automatically updated, it delivers it to your PC.
For example, a news feed containing summaries of news and links to the full article will automatically update as new headlines and articles are added.
What can it do for me?
Social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, RSS feeds etc have the potential to generate much needed income for your organisation through the easy disementation of information to your client base. Suffolk Online can integrate these tools within your existing or new website and can give you the expert advice on how best to use these tools, if at all.
